Marriages of Orange County contains abstracts of all the marriage bonds issued in Orange County from 1779 until 1868, when marriage bonds--as prerequisites for

This is a story of two families ? ordinary people intertwined with the dates, places, and extraordinary events of world history. Their names are not found in hi

The Book of Burwell Students offers a rare glimpse into the world of women's education in the antebellum South. From 1837 to 1857, Anna and Robert Burwell ran t

Homelands blends oral history, documentary studies, and quantitative research to present a colorful local history with much to say about multicultural identity

On October 16, 1859, John Brown and his band of eighteen raiders descended on Harpers Ferry. In an ill-fated attempt to incite a slave insurrection, they seized