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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The dramatic and compelling story of the transformation of America during the last fifty years, told through a handful of families in one suburban county in Virginia that has been utterly changed by recent immigration. In the fifty years since the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, the foreign-born population of the United States has tripled. Significantly, these immigrants are not coming from Europe, as was the case before 1965, but from all...
5) The recollections of John Mason: George Mason's son remembers his father and life at Gunston Hall
Author
Publisher
The Board of Regents of Gunston Hall
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
History Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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Description
Confederate Brigadier General J.E.B. Stuart entrusted a secret album to Laura Ratcliffe, a young girl in Fairfax County, "as a token of his high appreciation of her patriotism, admiration of her virtues, and pledge of his lasting esteem." A devoted Southerner, Laura provided a safe haven for Rebel forces along with intelligence gathered from passing Union soldiers. Ratcliffe's book contains four poems and forty undated signatures of Confederate...
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