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7) Archeological excavations at Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee Memorial, Arlington County, Virginia
Author
Series
NPS volume 2049
Publisher
U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
Pub. Date
[1983]
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Arlington School Board
Pub. Date
[1983]
Language
English
Description
History by the Block is an educational design seeking to strengthen the teaching of history in the Arlington Public Schools by focusing attention on the role of architecture and the design process in American social history. This unit, "If these walls could talk," reveals life in a plantation house located across the Potomac River from the nation's capitol and owned by members of the Washington and Lee families. It includes four lesson plans and...
Author
Publisher
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"George Washington Parke Custis (1781-1857) was raised at Mount Vernon by George and Martha Washington. Young "Wash" appears in Savage's 1789 painting of the first presidential family, his small hand placed symbolically on a globe. He would later make his mark on the national landscape by building Arlington House on the Potomac. A poor student, he emerged as an agricultural reformer and sought-after Federalist orator. He championed the plights of...
Pub. Date
1864
Language
English
Description
The photographs in PG 208 represent people, places and events. All are connected to Arlington County history. Sources of these pictures include the National Archives, the Library of Congress, and the Arlington Historical Society. Some of the photographs have been used in displays, and others are duplicated in other Virginia Room collections. Several are not identified and the provenance is unknown.
Author
Publisher
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From its origination, Arlington National Cemetery's history has been compellingly intertwined with that of African Americans. This book explains how the grounds of Arlington House, formerly the home of Robert E. Lee and a plantation of the enslaved, became a military camp for Federal troops, a freedmen's village and farm, and America's most important burial ground. During the Civil War, the property served as a pauper's cemetery for men too poor...
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