Southampton County, Virginia

Remember the titans’ focuses on a football team of the separated T.C William School Alexandria Virginia in 1971, the white and black schools are integrated and so are the two school’s football teams. The very successful white football team head coach Bill Yoast is replaced as the head coach for the new integrated team, by an equally successful black coach Herman Boone. This action angers Yoast who contemplates advancing his careers elsewhere. However, he is prevailed upon by the white players…

New England sought religious freedom, however, in the Chesapeake region when the people first settled all they wanted to do was look for gold and other valuables to take back to Europe. New England sent families with children and servants and Virginia did not. Documents A through H help give examples of how the differences in development occurred in both colonies. This paper argues that although the New England and Chesapeake colonies both came to the New World they had two completely…

At the age of fourteen, she was offered to get to train with Liang Chow. This then meant that she would have to move from Virginia all the way to Des Moines, Iowa. Unfortunately for her, her family did not have the money to go all the way to Des Moines and start a new life. But Chow had found a hostess family that has daughters who go to his gym and was willing to have Douglas…

During the 16th and 17th centuries the conditions in England were of great changes in both rural and urban areas. Therefore King James I granted the Virginia Company Of London - a joint stock formed by a group of merchants - the right to establish colonies in the New World. The leaders of the company sent skilled man because of the potential conflict with Spanish and Powhatan Indians, and the commanders of the voyage were Christopher Newpor, Bartholomew Gosnold, ohn Ratcliffe, and along with…

He helped construct the fort in Plymouth county and controlled the deployment of the colony’s cannons. He was said to have led or participated in all of the exploratory missions when they arrived in Cape Cod. Standish was an active military leader. Some described Miles Standish as “short, stout…

The Life of Dorothy Lavinia Brown Dorothy Lavinia Brown was a woman with many names. She was an educator towards the youth, a legislator in the Tennessee House of Representatives, a community leader, and an inspiration towards children and adults in all situations. I personally picked Brown because of her accomplishments towards her dream career. (http://www.blackpast.org/aah/brown-dorothy-lavinia-1919-2004) Brown was born on January 7, 1919 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After a couple of…

Unlike many of the Civil War governors who were elected in and out of office while the war was in full swing, Joseph Emerson Brown served as the governor of Georgia throughout the entire Civil War era, from 1857 to 1865. His influence, thus, is broad, ranging from the conflicts leading up to the war and succession of the southern states to the defeat of the Confederacy. His voice, which continuously advocated for states’ rights, called first for the succession of the southern states out of the…

and have fought for my life since my arrival, in 1607, to Jamestown, Virginia in the Chesapeake Bay, a swampy land, full of mosquitos, with a dry and humid climate. I urge you not to come to North America because you will face mistreatment as a laborer, bad relationships with neighbors, and high mortality rates. I arrived to the Chesapeake Bay in 1607 with about 100 other poor, lower sort, young English males through the Virginia Company, a joint stock company, charter. Unfortunately, by May of…

Missing Women of Martin's Hundred” In J. Frederick Fausz’s paper, “Global Implications of Patent Law Variation,” Fausz discloses the unfamiliar historical events surrounding the captured women from Martin’s Hundred plantation during the onslaught of Virginia colonists, which was exerted by Indian warriors as a part of the Powhatan Uprising of 1622. The events surrounding the captured women never gained much attention among historians due to the great interest in researching the effects of the…

“I can’t believe that I have to eat, sleep, and breathe on this college campus. The people are so bizarre. Can I just lay in my bed and not go to class?” contemplated Paul, as he lay awake in his bed the first Monday morning of the semester. Paul had walked around James Madison University’s campus during FROG week with the feeling of dread; James Madison University had not been his first choice (he had his eyes set on Harvard), but it was the only college that he got an acceptance letter from.…