In this second Virginia History Blog in a series of four on Civil Rights and Modern Virginia — political, gender, local and cultural – we look at gender history, beginning with “The Reconstruction of White Southern Womenhood” addressing three generations in the mid to late 19th century and “Women Shaping the South”, a view of...
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Life in 1700s Virginia
Life in 1700s Virginia is explained by two of the four British folkways transmitted in major immigration streams that established persistent cultural expressions even with subsequent settlements in “Albion’s Seed”. Life in the Church of England parish in colonial Virginia is described in “A Blessed Company, and the religious practices of the gentry are explained...
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