A History of Virginia for Boys and Girls
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Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 9781363183302
- Print Status
- In Print
- Chapters
- 49
- Suggested Grades
- 3rd - 12th
- Geographical Setting
- Virginia
- Historical Setting
- 1584 - 1917
- Publisher
- Wentworth Press
- Copyright
- 2016
Chapters
- 1 Virginia and Virginia Dare
- 2 A Day in May
- 3 John Smith: His Friends and His Foes
- 4 Pocahontas and Her People
- 5 A Red-Letter Year: 1619
- 6 In the Tobacco Fields
- 7 The Kings' Governors
- 8 "The Old Dominion"
- 9 Bacon's Rebellion
- 10 The College of William and Mary
- 11 The Knights of the Horseshoe
- 12 William Byrd and Peter Jones
- 13 Washington as a Surveyor
- 14 Washington as a Soldier
- 15 Life on the Plantations
- 16 Life in the Mountains
- 17 Patrick Henry and the Parsons
- 18 Andrew Lewis and Lord Dunmore
- 19 Washington as a Soldier Again
- 20 Jefferson and His Pen
- 21 "The Hannibal of the West"
- 22 Campbell and King's Mountain
- 23 Washington and Lafayette
- 24 "The Mother of States"
- 25 Washington and Madison in Independence Hall
- 26 Four Virginia Presidents
- 27 John Marshall, the Great Chief Justice
- 28 The Gateways in the Mountains
- 29 Rumsey and McCormick
- 30 "The Mill Boy of the Slashes"
- 31 The University of Virginia
- 32 Turnpikes and Stagecoaches
- 33 Ante-Bellum Days
- 34 John Brown's Raid
- 35 Lee's Defense of Richmond
- 36 Jackson in the Valley
- 37 Second Manassas and Fredricksburg
- 38 Chancellorsville and Gettysburg
- 39 Winchester and Cedar Creek
- 40 Saltville and Wytheville
- 41 The Final Fight for Richmond
- 42 Lee at Lexington
- 43 Maury and His Maps
- 44 Jefferson's Dream
- 45 Virginia Authors
- 46 Farms and Orchards
- 47 Cities and Factories
- 48 Four More Virginia Presidents
- 49 Virginia and the World War
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