Yorktown (Va.) -- History
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"Cast Down Your Bucket Where You Are": An Ethnohistorical Study of the African-American Community on the Lands of the Yorktown Naval Weapons Station, 1865-1918 (Williamsburg, VA: William and Mary Center for Archaeological Research, 1992), by Bradley M. McDonald, Kenneth E. Stuck, and Kathleen Joan Bragdon (page images at HathiTrust)- An Illustrated Historical Sketch of Jamestown, Williamsburg and Yorktown (Petersburg, VA: Franklin Press Co., ca. 1907), by J. Blair Spencer (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Yorktown: Climax of the Revolution (National Park Service source book series #1; 1941), ed. by Charles E. Hatch and Thomas M. Pitkin (page images at HathiTrust)
- Address of President Hoover at the Ceremonies In Commemoration of the One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia. October 19, 1931. (Washington: GPO, 1931), by Herbert Hoover (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Virginia Campaign and the Blockade and Siege of Yorktown, 1781: Including a Brief Narrative of the French Participation in the Revolution Prior to the Southern Campaign (Washington: GPO, 1931), by Howard Lee Landers (page images at HathiTrust)
- Letters of Thomas Nelson, Jr., Governor of Virginia (first and only issue of Publications of the Virginia Historical Society, New Series; Richmond: Virginia Historical Society, 1874), by Thomas Nelson (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Sidelight on History: Being the Letters of James McHenry, Aide-de-Camp of the Marquis de Lafayette to Thomas Sim Lee, Governor of Maryland, Written During the Yorktown Campaign, 1781 (1931), by James McHenry, contrib. by Elizabeth Sarah Kite (page images at HathiTrust)
- Peggy Owen at Yorktown (Philadelphia: Penn Pub. Co., 1917), by Lucy Foster Madison, illust. by Henry J. Peck (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
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Filed under: Naval Weapons Station (Yorktown, Va.)- "Cast Down Your Bucket Where You Are": An Ethnohistorical Study of the African-American Community on the Lands of the Yorktown Naval Weapons Station, 1865-1918 (Williamsburg, VA: William and Mary Center for Archaeological Research, 1992), by Bradley M. McDonald, Kenneth E. Stuck, and Kathleen Joan Bragdon (page images at HathiTrust)
- "Cast Down Your Bucket Where You Are": An Ethnohistorical Study of the African-American Community on the Lands of the Yorktown Naval Weapons Station, 1865-1918 (Williamsburg, VA: William and Mary Center for Archaeological Research, 1992), by Bradley M. McDonald, Kenneth E. Stuck, and Kathleen Joan Bragdon (page images at HathiTrust)
- The History of Virginia, From its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time (Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo and Co., 1853), by T. S. Arthur and W. H. Carpenter
- Sketches of Virginia, Historical and Biographical (2 volumes; 1850-1855), by William Henry Foote (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sketches of Virginia, Historical and Biographical (second series, second edition; Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1856), by William Henry Foote (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Virginia Leads (1916), by United Daughters of the Confederacy Virginia Division, contrib. by Mrs. W. C. N. Merchant (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A History of Middle New River Settlements and Contiguous Territory (1906), by David E. Johnston (HTML at kinyon.com)
- The Bowmans: A Pioneering Family in Virginia, Kentucky and the Northwest Territory (Staunton, VA: Press of the McClure Co., 1943), by John Walter Wayland (page images at HathiTrust)
- Illustrated Standard Guide to Norfolk and Portsmouth; and Historical Events of Virginia, 1607 to 1907 (Norfolk, VA: Standard Lithographing and Publishing Co., c1907) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Rending of Virginia: A History (with new introduction; Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c2000), by Granville Davisson Hall, contrib. by John E. Stealey (PDF at Tennessee)
- The Confessions of Nat Turner (Richmond: T. R. Gray, 1832), by Nat Turner, ed. by Thomas R. Gray
- The Confessions of Nat Turner, the Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Va. (Baltimore: T. R. Gray, 1831), by Nat Turner, ed. by Thomas R. Gray
- A Virginia Chronology, 1585-1783: "To Pass Away the Time" (Jamestown 350th Anniversary Historical Booklet #2; Williamsburg: Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation, 1957), by W. W. Abbot (page images at HathiTrust)
- Message from the Executive of the Commonwealth: With Accompanying Documents, Showing the Military and Naval Preparations for the Defence of the State of Virginia (1861), by Virginia (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The First Seventeen Years: Virginia, 1607-1624 (reprint of Jamestown 350th Anniversary Historical Booklet #6; Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1991), by Charles E. Hatch (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The History of the First Discovery and Settlement of Virginia: Being an Essay Towards a General History of This Colony (Williamsburg, VA: Printed by W. Parks, 1747), by William Stith
- The History of Virginia, in Four Parts (second edition; London: Printed for B. and S. Tooke et al., 1722), by Robert Beverley
- The History of the First Discovery and Settlement of Virginia: Being an Essay Towards a General History of This Colony (reprint of 1747 edition, with extensive index first published in 1912; Spartanburg, SC: Reprint Co., 1965), by William Stith, contrib. by Morgan Poitiaux Robinson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The Jamestown 350th Anniversary Historical Booklets (23 volumes; Williamsburg: Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation, 1957)
- A Pictorial Booklet on Early Jamestown Commodities and Industries (Jamestown 350th Anniversary Historical Booklet #23; Williamsburg: Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation, c1957), by J. Paul Hudson, illust. by Sidney E. King
- Struggle Against Tyranny, and the Beginning of a New Era: Virginia, 1677-1699 (Jamestown 350th Anniversary Historical Booklet #9; Williamsburg: Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation, c1957), by Richard L. Morton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Tobacco in Colonial Virginia: "The Sovereign Remedy" (Jamestown 350th Anniversary Historical Booklet #20; Williamsburg: Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation, c1957), by G. Melvin Herndon
- Report of the Proceedings of the Late Jubilee at James-Town, in Commemoration of the 13th May, the Second Centesimal Anniversary of the Settlement of Virginia (Petersburg, VA: Wm. F. McLaughlin; Norfolk, VA: J. O'Connor, 1807), by Jamestown (Va.)
- Bacon's Rebellion, 1676 (Jamestown 350th Anniversary Historical Booklet #8; Williamsburg: Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation, c1957), by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 (Jamestown 350th Anniversary Historical Booklet #21; Williamsburg: Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation, c1957), by Thomas Proctor Hughes
- Mother Earth: Land Grants in Virginia, 1607-1699 (Jamestown 350th Anniversary Historical Booklet #12; Williamsburg: Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation, 1957), by Walter Stitt Robinson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- A Virginia Chronology, 1585-1783: "To Pass Away the Time" (Jamestown 350th Anniversary Historical Booklet #2; Williamsburg: Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation, 1957), by W. W. Abbot (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Virginia Company of London, 1606-1624 (Jamestown 350th Anniversary Historical Booklet #5; Williamsburg: Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation, c1957), by Wesley Frank Craven (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Birth of the Nation: Jamestown, 1607 (New York and London: Macmillan, 1907), by Sara Agnes Rice Pryor, illust. by William de Leftwich Dodge (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Conquest of Virginia, the First Attempt: Being an Account of Sir Walter Raleigh's Colony on Roanoke Island, Based on Original Records, and Incidents in the Life of Raleigh, 1584-1602 (Norfolk, VA: Keyser-Doherty Printing Corp., 1924), by Conway Whittle Sams (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century: An Inquiry into the Material Condition of the People, Based upon Original and Contemporaneous Records (2 volumes; New York and London: Macmillan, 1896), by Philip Alexander Bruce
- The First Republic in America: An Account of the Origin of This Nation, Written From the Records Then (1624) Concealed by the Council, Rather Than From Histories Then Licensed by the Crown (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1898), by Alexander Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Genesis of the United States (2 volumes; Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1891), by Alexander Brown
- The History of The First Discovery and Settlement of Virginia (with bibliographical notice; New York: Reprinted for J. Sabin, 1865), by William Stith, contrib. by Joseph Sabin
- Jamestown (1607-1907): A Sketch of the History and Present Condition of the Site of the First Permanent English Settlement in America (New York: American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society, 1902), by Edward Hagaman Hall
- A True Discourse of the Present Estate of Virginia, and the Successe of the Affaires There Till the 18 of June, 1614 (reprint of 1615 edition), by Ralph Hamor, contrib. by Thomas Dale, Alexander Whitaker, and John Rolfe (HTML and page images at LOC)
- Nicolas Martiau, the Adventurous Huguenot, the Military Engineer, and the Earliest American Ancestor of George Washington (Norristown, PA: The Norristown Press, 1932), by John Baer Stoudt (page images at HathiTrust)
- Some Notes on Shipbuilding and Shipping in Colonial Virginia (Jamestown 350th Anniversary Historical Booklet #22; Williamsburg: Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation, c1957), by Cerinda W. Evans
- Virginia Under Charles I and Cromwell, 1625-1660 (Jamestown 350th Anniversary Historical Booklet #7; Williamsburg: Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation, c1957), by Wilcomb E. Washburn (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Adventures and Discourses of Captain John Smith, Sometime President of Virginia, and Admiral of New England (London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1883), by John Ashton
- Celebration of the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the English Settlement at Jamestown (Washington: Printed by J. T. and L. Towers, 1857), by Jamestown Society of Washington City (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Cradle of the Republic: Jamestown and James River (Richmond, VA: Heritage Press, 1906), by Lyon Gardiner Tyler (multiple formats at archive.org)
- First Celebration of the Anniversary of the Settlement at Jamestown, Va., on the 13th of May, 1607 (New York: Pudney and Russell, 1860), by Old Dominion Society (New York, N.Y.), contrib. by George W. Summers (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Life and Adventures of Captain John Smith: Comprising an Account of His Travels in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America; Also, the Early History of Virginia and New England; Including Sketches of Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough, and Other Distinguished Characters, Principally Compiled From His Own Works (Hartford: S. Andrus and son, 1855), by W. C. Armstrong, contrib. by John Smith
- Nova Britannia: Offering Most Excellent Fruites By Planting In Virginia, Exciting All Such As Be Well Affected To Further The Same. London, Printed for S. Macham, 1609. (#6 of American Colonial Tracts reprints; Rochester, NY: G. P. Humphrey, 1897), by Robert Johnson
- Pocahontas: Including An Account of the Early Settlement of Virginia and of the Adventures of Captain John Smith (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, c1879), by Edward Eggleston and Elizabeth Eggleston Seelye (multiple formats at Indiana)
- History of Mt. Storm Community (in Grant and Mineral Counties, West Virginia) (1927), by D. W. Idleman (HTML at wvculture.org)
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