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Mark Peterson
Repository
James Madison University Libraries Special Collections
Identification
SC 0205
Title
Shenandoah Valley Regional Studies Seminar Records 1990-2009
Quantity
1.65 cubic feet, 5 boxes
Creator
Shenandoah Valley Regional Studies Seminar
Language
English
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Abstract
This collection consists of administrative records and papers by scholars from colleges, libraries and other institutions
for the monthly presentations of the Shenandoah Valley Regional Studies Seminar (SVRSS). The collection contains financial
records, announcements, correspondence, information about presenters, and academic papers.
The copyright interests in this collection have not been transferred to the James Madison University Special Collections Library.
The authors retain the copyrights on their papers. The user is responsible to obtain clearance from the copyright holder for
permission to use any materials in excess of fair use.For more information, contact the Special Collections Library Reference
Desk (library-special@jmu.edu).
Access Restrictions
Collection is open for research. Researchers must register and agree to copyright and privacy laws before using this collection.
Please contact Research Services staff before visiting the James Madison University Special Collections Library to use this
collection.
Preferred Citation
[identification of item], [box #, folder #], Shenandoah Valley Regional Studies Seminar Records, 1990-2009, SC 0205, Special
Collections, Carrier Library, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Va.
Acquisition Information
The collection was donated in 2008 by Joseph Whitehorne, one of the organizers of SVRSS and a faculty member at Lord Fairfax
Community College. Several papers were added after the initial donation.
Processing Information
In order to streamline the process of applying collection numbers, Special Collections staff completed a large-scale renumbering
campaign in 2017-2018. This collection was previously cataloged as SC 5027 .
The Shenandoah Regional Studies Seminar (SVRSS) has been held during the academic year since 1988, usually at James Madison
University. Papers presented have covered a wide range of historical and regional subjects from colonial developments to the
details of rural life in the twentieth century. The primary goal of SVRSS has been to provide an informed and interested audience
for scholars from a variety of fields such as history, archaeology, geography, folklore, and ethnography. SVRSS provides a
regular forum for scholars and attendees at which to consider topics of regional interest, pertinent, but not restricted,
to the Shenandoah Valley. SVRSS met monthly during the academic year, at least through the spring of 2017. Beginning in the
fall of 2017, the schedule and location of SVRSS became less concrete with lectures occurring just once per semester at the
Frontier Culture Museum in Stauton, Virginia.
The Shenandoah Valley Regional Studies Seminar Records, 1990-2009, includes administrative records and scholarly papers organized
by academic year. Some years represented in the collection have limited contents. The bulk of the collection consists of material
that was distributed to a select group, likely previous SVRSS attendees and other interested persons, before a presentation.
These materials generally include a copy of an academic paper with information on the presenter. The collection includes files
for most of the presentations from 1995 to 2009. Additional SVRSS papers were collected prior to 1995 (and prior to the donation)
by the then Special Collections Librarian. These papers were added to the collection.
The collection is arranged into two series. Series 1 is arranged chronologically by academic year. Series 2 is arranged into
subseries according to academic year and arranged further alphabetically by author's surname.
Joan C. Browning, Getting to the Springs of Virginia: A Survey of Transportation from Horse-Litter to Concord Coach
Browning, Joan C.1997 April 18
Scope and Contents
Describes the history of Virginia's mineral springs and their impact on early road construction and wagon design. Discusses
road travel conditions in Virginia in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Mentions construction of the Cumberland Road,
also known as the Old National Road, one of the first improved interstate highways, built by the U.S. government between 1811
and 1839. Traces the evolution of transportation from the earliest wagons to the Concord Coach.
Mixed Materials [1000886154] box: 1 folder: 15
Robert Calhoon, The Southern Back Country Origins of Political Moderation in America
Calhoon, Robert M. (Robert McCluer)1997 September 19
Scope and Content
With "Political Moderation as an Anglo-American Ideology"
Mixed Materials [1000886154] box: 1 folder: 16
Thomas Costa, Paradise on the Clinch? Land Speculators and the Early Settlement of Russell County
Costa, Thomas M. (Thomas Michael), 1953-1997 March 21
Mixed Materials [1000886154] box: 1 folder: 17
Ann Denkler, How Others See Each Other: Skyland and the Mountain Culture
Denkler, Ann, 1965-1996 April 19
Scope and Content
Short description of project only
Mixed Materials [1000886154] box: 1 folder: 18
Christine Devine, Crossroads of Exchange: Anglo-Indian Diplomacy and Trade in Northern Carolina
Devine, Christine Styrna1997 October 17
Scope and Content
With CV
Mixed Materials [1000886154] box: 1 folder: 19
J. Brooks Flippen, The Promise of Late Antebellum Rockbridge: Overtaken by Events
Flippen, J. Brooks, 1959-1996 February 16
Mixed Materials [1000886154] box: 1 folder: 20
Ben Fordney, Two Generals in Blue: The Reconstruction Policies of Generals John Schofield and George Stone[man] in Virginia,
1866-1969
Fordney, Ben Fuller, 1931-20161996 May 17
Mixed Materials [1000886154] box: 1 folder: 21
John Frantz, The Religious Development of the Early German Settlers in the Shenandoah Valley
Frantz, John B.1996 November 15
Scope and Contents
Describes the difficulties encountered by early German settlers to the Shenandoah Valley in the 18th and 19th centuries. German
immigrant groups, such as the Pennsylvania Dutch, were often located on scattered, isolated farms, without the means to form
or maintain their traditional religious institutions. Protestant sects, such as the Lutherans, Presbyterians, Mennonites,
and Pietists, often lacked the numbers or financial ability to support churches or clergy. Describes the problem of itinerant,
unordained preachers taking advantage of isolated communities. Comments on those immigrants who, through their increasing
contact with English-speaking Scots-Irish neighbors, left the German sects for the better established English churches.
With published copy in "Pennsylvania History" 2001.
Mixed Materials [1000886155] box: 2 folder: 1
Timothy Hanson, Cultural Commerce: Scottish Immigrants, Trade and Politics in 18th Century North Carolina
Hanson, Timothy Richard1997 January 17
Mixed Materials [1000886155] box: 2 folder: 2
Dean Herrin, Breaking the Stillness?: The Coal Industry and the Transformation of Appalachian Virginia, 1880-1920
Herrin, Dean A., 1958-1995 November 17
Mixed Materials [1000886155] box: 2 folder: 3
Christine Hoepfner, The Shenandoah National Park Displacements: Stories from Swift Run Gap
Hoepfner, Christine, -20181995 October 20
Scope and Contents
Socio-economic research on the Swift Run Gap (Va.) community during the 1920s-1930s, whose boundaries bordered those of the
Shenandoah National Park. Includes study of the economic conditions in the area that later became park land and the reactions
of local people to the prospect of the park, the selling of their land, and concerns once the park was established. This paper
appears to be part of on-going research on the topic, and provides preliminary data supporting the theory that the people,
their prosperity, and farming techniques were more diverse and of a higher standard than previously indicated.
Mixed Materials [1000886155] box: 2 folder: 4
Andrew C. Holman, Professional Gentlemen…and Others: Rural Practitioners and the Transformation of the Medical Community in
Rockbridge County, Virginia, 1840-1890
Holman, Andrew C. (Andrew Carl), 1965-1996 January 19
Mixed Materials [1000886155] box: 2 folder: 5
Audrey Horning, Material Culture and the Mountain Folk Image: Archaeological Explorations in Virginia's Blue Ridge
Horning, Audrey J.1996 September 20
Mixed Materials [1000886155] box: 2 folder: 6
David C. Hsiung, Death on the Juniata: Indian-White Relations in Colonial Pennsylvania
Hsiung, David C., 1961-1996 October 18
Mixed Materials [1000886155] box: 2 folder: 7
David James Kiracofe, Claypole's Rebellion: Patriotism and Treason in a Virginia Backcountry Community, 1781-1782
Kiracofe, David1997 May 16
Mixed Materials [1000886155] box: 2 folder: 8
Ann McCleary, Reassessing the Home Demonstration Program and its Impact on Rural Women and Communities: A Case Study of Augusta
County
McCleary, Ann, 1954-1997 November 21
Scope and Content
Several chapters from her dissertation only
Mixed Materials [1000886155] box: 2 folder: 9
L. Daniel Mouer, Rebecca's Children: New Myths and Old Myths about Indians and Virginia's History
Mouer, L. Daniel1997 February 21
Mixed Materials [1000886155] box: 2 folder: 10
Sheila Phipps, Of Necessity: Salt on the Virginia Frontier, 1750-1815
Phipps, Sheila R., 1948-1995 September 16
Mixed Materials [1000886155] box: 2 folder: 11
J. Suzanne Simmons, The Intersection of the Freed Black and Slave Communities in Augusta County, Virginia
Simmons, Susanne1996 March 15
Mixed Materials [1000886155] box: 2 folder: 12
Nancy Sorrells, A Christian Soldier for the Confederacy: Fighting the Civil War on the Home Front
Sorrells, Nancy T.1995 December 8
Scope and Content
Thesis chapter only
2.2
Papers
1998-2000
Mixed Materials [1000886155] box: 2 folder: 13
Bea Naff Bailey, A Mission from Within: The Phoebe Needles Memorial School
Bailey, Bea2000 April 21
Mixed Materials [1000886155] box: 2 folder: 14
Charles Ballard, Dismissing the Peculiar Institution: Assessing Slavery in Page and Rockingham Counties, Virginia
Ballard, Charles C.1998 April 17
Scope and Contents
This paper presents the view that slavery played a more active and important role in the historical development of the central
Shenandoah Valley than previously perceived and recorded by such historians as John Wayland and Harry M. Strickler. Records
recent research which documents the active role of African-Americans in such areas as iron-making (ex: the Shenandoah Iron
Works), grain farming and other related occupations, using 1850 census figures. Mentions names of prominent wealthy slave-owning
families and the impact of Mennonite and Dunker anti-slavery influences. Cites from the memoirs of Bethany Veney, a slave
women who lived in antebellum Page County, Virginia.
Mixed Materials [1000886155] box: 2 folder: 15
Chris Bolgiano, Tanbark Harvesting as an Economic and Environmental Factor in Appalachia
Bolgiano, Chris1999 January 22
Mixed Materials [1000886155] box: 2 folder: 16
Leila O. W. Boyer, Frederick County Probate Inventories, 1744-1754
Boyer, Leila O. W.1998 February 20
Mixed Materials [1000886155] box: 2 folder: 17
Seth C. Bruggeman, The Shenandoah River Gundalow and the Politics of Material Reuse
Bruggeman, Seth C., 1975-2000 February 18
Mixed Materials [1000886155] box: 2 folder: 18
A. Glenn Crothers, "To Make Our Youth Intimately Acquainted with their Country": Public Culture and the Diffusion of Knowledge
in Post-Revolutionary Northern Virginia
Crothers, A. Glenn1999 April 16
Scope and Content
With CV
Mixed Materials [1000886155] box: 2 folder: 19
Philip D. Dillard, Confederate Nationalism Meets Philip Sheridan
Dillard, Philip D.2000 September 15
Mixed Materials [1000886155] box: 2 folder: 20
John Fea, Rethinking a Classic Source of Plantation Virginia: A Note on Morals, Sociability, and Reading in the Writings of
Philip Vickers Fithian
Fea, John1998 March 20
Scope and Content
With CV
Mixed Materials [1000886155] box: 2 folder: 21
Jamie L. Ferguson, Lunatics on the West Side: Dr. Francis Stribling and the Western Lunatic Asylum
Ferguson, Jamie L.2000 November 17
Mixed Materials [1000886155] box: 2 folder: 22
Clarence R. Geier, What Went Ye Into the Wilderness to See? Military Fortification and Troop Deployment at Fort Edward Johnson,
Shenandoah Mountain, April 1862
Geier, Clarence R., 1944-1999 October 15
Mixed Materials [1000886155] box: 2 folder: 23
George H. Gilliam and William G. Thomas, The Ground Beneath Our Feet. Pilot Episode: The New Deal Comes to Virginia
Gilliam, George H.Thomas, William G., 1964-1998 September 18
Scope and Content
Video script with abstract and 2 CVs
Mixed Materials [1000886155] box: 2 folder: 24
Philip A. Grant Jr., President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Dedication of the Shenandoah National Park
Grant, Philip A., 1933-2000 October 20
Mixed Materials [1000886156] box: 3 folder: 1
Dale F. Harter, The Memoirs of John T. Harris, U.S. Congressman, 1859-1861, 1871-1881: Reliable Record or Random Recollections
Harter, Dale F.1998 October 16
Scope and Content
Includes timeline and pictures
Mixed Materials [1000886156] box: 3 folder: 2
Kevin L. Harter, Shenandoah Valley String Music
Harter, Kevin L.2000 January 21
Scope and Content
With CV
Mixed Materials [1000886156] box: 3 folder: 3
John L. Heatwole, Witch Lore of the Mountains and Valleys of the Virginias
Heatwole, John L., 1948-20062000 March 17
Mixed Materials [1000886156] box: 3 folder: 4
Trenton E. Hizer, The Reform Movement and the Virginia Constitutional Convention, 1829-1830
Hizer, Trenton E., 1963-1999 March 19
Scope and Content
With CV
Mixed Materials [1000886156] box: 3 folder: 5
Christian B. Keller, Old Germans and New Germans: Differing Attitudes of Persons of German Descent in Pennsylvania and Virginia
during the Civil War
Keller, Christian B.1999 May 21
Scope and Content
With CV
Mixed Materials [1000886156] box: 3 folder: 6
Stephen Longenecker, The Parameters of Presbyterian Outsiderness in the Shenandoah Valley, 1776-1861
Longenecker, Stephen L., 1951-1999 September 17
Scope and Content
With CV
Mixed Materials [1000886156] box: 3 folder: 7
Paul D. McDermott, Conococheague Manor: A Study of Early Frontier Settlement in the Backcountry
McDermott, Paul D.1999 November 19
Scope and Content
With CV statement
Mixed Materials [1000886156] box: 3 folder: 8
Nancy Sorrells, Muley Cows & Sandy Sows: An Analysis of the Augusta County Estray Books, 1775-1815
Sorrells, Nancy T.1998 January 16
Mixed Materials [1000886156] box: 3 folder: 9
Jewel Spangler, "A Spring Seald, A Fountain Shut Up?": Evangelicals and Community in Southampton County, Virginia, 1774-1802
Spangler, Jewel L., 1961-1998 November 20
Mixed Materials [1000886156] box: 3 folder: 10
Danielle M. Torisky, Feeding the Family: Home Front Challenges in Civil War Virginia
Torisky, Danielle1999 February 19
Scope and Contents
Describes a number of cookbooks, handbooks, and home economics guides produced in the South between 1850 and 1865 directed
primarily at housewives. With the onset of shortages caused by the Civil War, these books focused on conservation and substitutes
for common foods and medicines. Discusses a botanical field manual, commissioned by Surgeon General of the Confederacy, which
describes edible and medicinal plants found growing wild throughout the South. Describes the economic and social aspects of
life in several Virginia communities as the war brought increased shortages and hardship.
Mixed Materials [1000886156] box: 3 folder: 11
Joseph W. A. Whitehorne, "Baptists and Yams Did Not Grow Well in the Shenandoah Valley": Regional Differences in the Baptist
Movement in Colonial Virginia
Whitehorne, Joseph W. A., 1943-1998 May 15
Scope and Contents
Discusses the growth of the Baptist movement in colonial America and regional differences between Baptists in Virginia that
still exist to this day. Includes references to the Separatists and Regulars; a chart showing Baptist origins; a list of regional
18th century Baptist churches in and near the Valley; and an annotated list of "important Baptist clergy during the formative
period."
2.3
Papers
2001-2003
Mixed Materials [1000886156] box: 3 folder: 12
Jonathan M. Berkey, When Killing Is Not Murder: The Politics of Wartime Identity in Virginia's Lower Shenandoah Valley, 1865-1870
Berkey, Jonathan M.2001 March 16
Scope and Content
With CV
Mixed Materials [1000886156] box: 3 folder: 13
Joan C. Browning, Mountaineers are [not] Always Free: Historical Rx for Healing with Local History by Combining and Reconciling
European and African 'Histories' of Slavery and the Civil War
Browning, Joan C.2002 April 19
Mixed Materials [1000886156] box: 3 folder: 14
Ellen Eslinger, The Brief Career of Rufus W. Bailey, African Colonization Society Agent in Virginia
Eslinger, Ellen, 1956-20182001 April 20
Scope and Contents
Discusses the efforts of Rufus W. Bailey, an agent for the African Colonization Society agent in Virginia (primarily in Augusta
and Rockbridge counties) to resettle African Americans in Liberia, Africa, from 1847-1851. Records tactics used to convince
families to leave, etc.
Mixed Materials [1000886156] box: 3 folder: 15
Douglas Gomery, Moviegoing in the Shenandoah Valley: A Case Study of Place, Transportation, Audiences, Racism, Censorship
& Blue Laws
Gomery, Douglas2003 March 21
Mixed Materials [1000886156] box: 3 folder: 16
Timothy Hack, Shaping a Revolution: The County Committees in Virginia, 1774-776
Hack, Timothy2002 February 15
Scope and Content
With abstract
Mixed Materials [1000886156] box: 3 folder: 17
Kevin R. Hardwick, Narratives of Villainy and Virtue in Early Virginia: Governor Francis Nicholson and the Character of the
Good Ruler
Hardwick, Kevin R., 1961-2001 October 26
Mixed Materials [1000886156] box: 3 folder: 18
Warren R. Hofstra, "All Things Being Equal": The Exchange Economy of the Early Shenandoah Valley
Hofstra, Warren R., 1947-2002 September 20
Scope and Content
With abstract
Mixed Materials [1000886156] box: 3 folder: 19
John C. Kincheloe, The Changing Nature of the Cherokee Trade: Cherokee and English Relations, 1673-1776
Kincheloe, John C. (John Charles)2003 January 17
Mixed Materials [1000886156] box: 3 folder: 20
Kenneth E. Koons, Laboring Classes in the Valley of Virginia during the Age of Grain
Koons, Kenneth E.2003 April 18
Scope and Content
With update to Figure 11
Mixed Materials [1000886156] box: 3 folder: 21
Creston S. Long, Corridor and Source: The Valley of Virginia and the Eighteenth-Century Migration to the Backcountry South
Long, Creston S.2003 February 21
Scope and Content
With CV
Mixed Materials [1000886156] box: 3 folder: 22
John R. Maass, "But What Can I Do Without Men": Nathanael Greene, Thomas Jefferson and the Mobilization of the Virginia Militia,
1780-1781
Maass, John R.2003 November 21
Scope and Content
With copy containing handwritten note and CV
Mixed Materials [1000886156] box: 3 folder: 23
Paul D. McDermott, The People of Elizabeth Hundred
McDermott, Paul D.2001 November 16
Scope and Content
With abstract
Mixed Materials [1000886156] box: 3 folder: 24
Charles A. Miller, Ellen Glasgow's Shenandoah Valley Novels: Learning from Literature
Miller, Charles A. (Charles Allen), 1937-20192003 October 24
Scope and Content
With abstract and envelope containing note and computer disk
Mixed Materials [1000886297] box: 4 folder: 1
Lynn A. Nelson, 'The Coffey Gang' and the Tye River Forks Community: Evolution of Yeoman Families in Virginia's Blue Ridge
Mountains, 1800-1860
Nelson, Lynn A., 1967-March 15, 2002
Scope and Content
With abstract
Mixed Materials [1000886297] box: 4 folder: 2
Kip Redick, Wilderness and Communitas: Pilgrims on the Appalachian Trail NCA Panel: "New Radicals: Spiritual Communities and
the Environment"
Redick, Kip2001 October 22
Scope and Content
With emailed abstract
Mixed Materials [1000886297] box: 4 folder: 3
Edward J. Redmond, The Mapmaker from Mount Vernon
Redmond, Edward James, 1962-20212001 February 16
Scope and Content
With abstract
Mixed Materials [1000886297] box: 4 folder: 4
Stacey L. Schneider, Deconstructing Legend: The Underground Railroad in Virginia
Schneider, Stacey L.2002 January 18
Scope and Content
With abstract
Mixed Materials [1000886297] box: 4 folder: 5
Patrick K. Spero, The Paxton Boy's Pamphlet War and the Restructuring of Colonial Pennsylvania's Political Landscape
Spero, Patrick2002 October 25
Mixed Materials [1000886297] box: 4 folder: 6
Dan Stickley, John Hindman, the Racing Parson
Stickley, Dan2001 January 19
Mixed Materials [1000886297] box: 4 folder: 7
Bradford Wineman, J.T.L. Preston, VMI and the Revolution in Virginia Education, 1834-1839
Wineman, Bradford Alexander, 1977-2003 September 19
Scope and Content
With CV and emailed abstract
2.4
Papers
2004-2006
Mixed Materials [1000886297] box: 4 folder: 8
Alison Bell and Laura J. Galke, Traces of Negotiation: Archaeological, Archival and Oral Historical Investigations into the
Dynamics of Labor at the Longdale Mining Complex, ca. 1827-1911
Bell, AlisonGalke, Laura J.2005 March 18
Scope and Content
With abstract
Mixed Materials [1000886297] box: 4 folder: 9
Thomas J. Christoffel, Community, Security and Regional Cooperation in the Shenandoah Valley
Christoffel, Thomas J.2004 February 20
Scope and Content
PowerPoint slides with CV
Mixed Materials [1000886297] box: 4 folder: 10
Casey Clabough, Mysteries of the Shenandoah Valley: Following the Warrior's Path
Clabough, Casey, 1974-2006 September 15
Scope and Contents
Describes the author's 2004 walking tour of Virginia, focusing on the section of the Shenandoah Valley from Harrisonburg to
Natural Bridge. Includes historical notes on the earliest European explorers and settlers in the region.
Mixed Materials [1000886297] box: 4 folder: 11
Christopher M. Curtis, Jefferson's Vision Altered: Charles Faulkner and the Legal Foundations of Agricultural Reform in the
Shenandoah Valley
Curtis, Christopher Michael2004 March 19
Scope and Content
With CV
Mixed Materials [1000886297] box: 4 folder: 12
Anne Denkler, African Americans and Slavery in Page County, Virginia
Denkler, Ann, 1965-2005 October 14
Scope and Content
Emailed abstract only
Mixed Materials [1000886297] box: 4 folder: 13
Sherman L. Fleek, Latter-Day Saints in Virginia and the Shenandoah Area
Fleek, Sherman L.2006 October 20
Mixed Materials [1000886297] box: 4 folder: 14
Frank E. Grizzard Jr., Origin and Preservation of the George Washington Papers
Grizzard, Frank E., 1954-2004 January 16
Scope and Content
Published article with presentation abstract
Mixed Materials [1000886297] box: 4 folder: 15
Mary Ellen Henry, Institutionalizing the Valley Poor: the Rockbridge and Shenandoah Experience, 1870-1930
Henry, Mary Ellen2004 October 22
Mixed Materials [1000886297] box: 4 folder: 16
Anna Elizabeth Kiefer, "Through an Almost Impenetrable Wood"': Logistics and the British Army in North America
Kiefer, Anna Elizabeth2006 November 17
Scope and Content
University of New Hampshire thesis
Mixed Materials [1000886297] box: 4 folder: 17
Geraldine Wojno Kiefer, The Sublimity of Battle, the Quietude of Remembrance: Paintings, Drawings, Maps and Photographs of
the Shenandoah Valley as a Theater of War
Kiefer, Geraldine W. (Geraldine Wojno)2005 February 18
Scope and Content
PowerPoint slides, exhibit brochure, and CD
Mixed Materials [1000886297] box: 4 folder: 18
Kenneth E. Koons, Bonds of Family, Friendship, and Community: Social Life and Patterns of Leisure in the Nineteenth-Century
Valley of Virginia
Koons, Kenneth E.2006 February 17
Scope and Contents
Describes daily life in the 19th century in a number of Virginia counties, including Rockingham, Augusta, and Rockbridge Counties,
with a focus on how ordinary people spent their free time. Numerous references to community activities such as quilting bees,
corn huskings, singings, sleigh rides, dances, weddings, and funerals. Also describes several anti-social behaviors, usually
alcohol related, ranging from vagrancy to murder, which were reported in many towns throughout the region. Briefly mentions
the growth of local temperance movements at mid-century. Draws heavily on diary entries by local citizens, especially that
of Isaac Acker.
Mixed Materials [1000886297] box: 4 folder: 19
Greg Lekavich, Serving the People: The Role of the Judiciary and Law Enforcement in Defining the Augusta County Ordinance
Lekavich, Greg2005 April 15
Mixed Materials [1000886297] box: 4 folder: 20
Stephen Longenecker, Otelia's Hoops: Gettysburg Dunkers and the Civil War
Longenecker, Stephen L., 1951-2005 November 18
Scope and Content
With abstract
Mixed Materials [1000886297] box: 4 folder: 21
Sarah Meacham, "My Little Bird Is My Closest Friend": Emotions and Petkeeping in Early Virginia
Meacham, Sarah Hand, 1972-2006 March 17
Scope and Contents
Describes the social customs and attitudes surrounding the keeping of pets in eighteenth and early nineteenth century Virginia.
Comments on the social status and gender role aspects attributed to keeping particular pets. Discusses a wide variety of animals,
beyond common cats and dogs, that were kept as pets, such as squirrels, hummingbirds, mockingbirds, cranes, and deer. Includes
pet-related anecdotes by and about such famous Virginians as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, William Byrd, Fannie Kemble,
and Landon Carter.
Mixed Materials [1000886297] box: 4 folder: 22
Betsy Mendelsohn, Early Apple Growing on Apple Pie Ridge, 1900-1930
Mendelsohn, Betsy Thomas2004 November 19
Mixed Materials [1000886297] box: 4 folder: 23
Byron C. Smith, The Minnick-Zirkle Newtown Wagon: Its Rediscovery and Attribution
Smith, Byron C.2005 September 16
Scope and Content
With abstract
Mixed Materials [1000886297] box: 4 folder: 24
Scott Hamilton Suter, The Real Thing: Tradition and Technology in the Shenandoah Valley
Suter, Scott Hamilton2004 September 17
Scope and Content
With emailed abstract
Mixed Materials [1000886297] box: 4 folder: 25
George Thompson, Publishing in the Valley
Thompson, George F.2006 January 20
Scope and Content
Project proposal only
Mixed Materials [1000886297] box: 4 folder: 26
Catherine A. Tisinger, Phoenix Rising: A 20th Century Valley Tale, One Manufacturing Plant and Three Owners
Tisinger, Catherine A.2006 April 21
Scope and Contents
Describes the history of Avtex Fibers, Inc., a major defense materials manufacturer, located in Front Royal, Virginia. Founded
in 1937, by the American Viscose Corporation, (AVC), the plant produced numerous rayon-based products for the U.S. government
during World War II. In the post-war years the company was sold to the Food Machines Corporation, (FMC), in 1963, which produced
materials for the Space Program and the aerospace industry. The Avtex Fibers bought the company in 1976, but within a decade,
highly toxic waste disposal problems landed the company on the federal Superfund cleanup list. Citing numerous violations
of the federal Environmental Protection Act and Virginia Water Control legislation, the facility was summarily closed by state
officials in 1989. Environmental clean up efforts over the following decade have rehabilitated the 300 acre site to the point
where local and state authorities can contemplate the future of this controversial Virginia landmark.
2.5
Papers
2007-2009
Mixed Materials [1000886297] box: 4 folder: 27
Donna Dodenhoff, African Americans' Pursuit of Citizenship in the Northern Shenandoah Valley: Reconstruction to the World
War II Period
Dodenhoff, Donna2009 April 17
Scope and Content
With emailed abstract
Mixed Materials [1000886298] box: 5 folder: 1
Walter Ghant, "Colored" Teachers in Harrisonburg and Rockingham County, Virginia, 1900-1940: Pedagogy of Service and Learning
Ghant, Walter2008 February 15
Scope and Content
With emailed abstract
Mixed Materials [1000886298] box: 5 folder: 2
Dale Harter, 'Hell No, We Won't Go' … Back: The Rockingham Rebellion, Spring 1862
Harter, Dale F.2009 February 20
Scope and Content
Emailed abstract only
Mixed Materials [1000886298] box: 5 folder: 3
Mary Ellen Henry, Shuttering the Poorhouse Door: Virginia's Second District Home, 1927
Henry, Mary Ellen2009 March 20
Mixed Materials [1000886298] box: 5 folder: 4
Warren Hofstra and Mike Foreman, Country Music and Cultural History in 1950s Winchester, Virginia. The Life and Times of Patsy
Cline
Hofstra, Warren R., 1947-Foreman, Michael Marcellus, 1941-20122009 January 16
Scope and Content
Abstract only
Mixed Materials [1000886298] box: 5 folder: 5
Wesley T. Joyner, Who Is Peter Francisco and Why Does He Matter?
Joyner, Wesley T.2007 October 26
Scope and Content
With book abstract
Mixed Materials [1000886298] box: 5 folder: 6
Geraldine Wojno Kiefer, Frances Benjamin Johnston and The Ladies' Home Journal Visit the Country of Sheridan's Ride
Kiefer, Geraldine W. (Geraldine Wojno)2007 September 21
Scope and Content
PowerPoint slides and 2 CDs
Mixed Materials [1000886298] box: 5 folder: 7
Kenneth E. Koons, Processing the Bounty of Field and Forest: Manufacturing in the Nineteenth-Century Valley of Virginia
Koons, Kenneth E.2007 February 16
Scope and Content
With abstract
Mixed Materials [1000886298] box: 5 folder: 8
Charles A. Miller, The Classics in the Appalachians – The Case of the Shenandoah Valley
Miller, Charles A. (Charles Allen), 1937-20192008 April 18
Scope and Content
With abstract
Mixed Materials [1000886298] box: 5 folder: 9
Ted Olson, Blue Ridge Folklife: The Region's Most Distinctive Verbal, Customary, and Material Culture Traditions—Past, Present,
and Future
Olson, Ted2007 April 20
Scope and Content
With ephemera (moved to Administrative Records 2007) and emailed biography
Mixed Materials [1000886298] box: 5 folder: 10
Laura Ping, Life in a Divided City: Women in Winchester, VA During the Civil War
Ping, Laura J.2007 March 16
Scope and Content
Thesis with abstract and emailed biography
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Scott Hamilton Suter, 'Steeped in the Traditions of the Past': Material Culture and the Marketing of the Shenandoah Valley
Suter, Scott Hamilton2008 October 17
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Matthew J. Trogdon, The Editors and the Insurrection: Political Rivalry and the Newspaper Reactions to Nat Turner's Rebellion
Trogdon, Matthew J.2007 January 19
Scope and Content
With abstract
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Joseph W. A. Whitehorne, The Battle of Cedar Creek: Action Affecting Areas 1 and 5, Quarry Property
Whitehorne, Joseph W. A., 1943-2008 September 19
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Papers
1990-1994
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Terry Alford, John Wilkes Booth and the John Brown Raid: An Episode and its Portents
Alford, Terry1991 October 18
Scope and Contents
Describes the aftermath of John Brown's raid on the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859. Brown was later
apprehended, tried, and sentenced to hang on December 2, 1859, at Charles Town, Virginia. Documents the life and theatrical
career of John Wilkes Booth, who would assassinate President Abraham Lincoln in 1865. Recounts Booth's journey to Charles
Town in 1859, with several Richmond, Virginia militia companies comprising part of the security detail at Brown's execution.
Discusses possible psychological effects the execution may have had on Booth, and similarities between Brown's actions at
Harpers Ferry and Booth's assassination of Lincoln.
Contains email re: paper not to be copied/distributed until Dr. Alford's book publication
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Lisa Hill, Germanic Customs of the Easter Season: Folklore and Traditions
Hill, Lisa1990 August 10
Scope and Contents
Describes common religious customs and traditions related to Easter and Holy Week observations that have their origins in
Germanic culture. Defines the significance of the days of Holy Week, including Shrove Tuesday, Ash Wednesday, Maundy Thursday,
and Good Friday, as well as the customs and folklore associated with each day. Traces the origins of various Easter symbols
to pre-Christian Germanic folklore and post-Reformation religious edicts. Describes how German immigrant groups, such as the
Pennsylvania Dutch, brought these customs and beliefs to America in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.
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Warren R. Hofstra, Domestic Architecture and the Early Shenandoah Valley
Hofstra, Warren R., 1947-1992 February 20
Scope and Contents
Describes the importance of roads and their affect on the architecture of farms and homes throughout the Shenandoah Valley
in the 18th and 19th centuries. Discusses how improved roads allowed rural Virginians to transport their produce to centralized
markets, such as Winchester, Virginia. Improved markets caused a transition from a barter-based system to a capitalist market
economy. Describes how that transition affected archictecture, land use, and community life in the Shenandoah Valley; particularly
in the Winchester and Frederick County regions.
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Stephen L. Longnecker, Religion, Pluralism, and Democracy among Germans in the Shenandoah Valley, 1700-1850
Longenecker, Stephen L., 1951-1991 November 15
Scope and Contents
Discusses the Evangelical movement and its consequences among various German religious groups in the Shenandoah Valley. Describes
the discussions that took place concerning such issues as pluralism, democracy, salvation and the position of churches towards
slavery. Many leading local pastors and ministers are mentioned.
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Scott H. Suter, Tradition and Progress in Nineteenth-Century Rockingham County: The Case of Emanuel Suter
Suter, Scott Hamilton1993 September 17
Scope and Contents
Records the experiences of Emanuel Suter and his efforts to introduce innovations into his pottery business, local farms,
and the Mennonite Church in the latter half of the 19th century. Discusses his introduction of new pottery firing techniques
and farm machinery, as well as his attempts to reform church rules regarding the calling of ministers. Describes Suter's successful
efforts toward instituting sunday schools in the Shenandoah Valley. Concludes with comments on Suter's progressive views,
both secular and spiritual; many of which became commonplace in the 20th century.
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Gail S. Terry,"If it is Within My Power": Women's Experience In the Virginia Backcountry
Terry, Gail S.1991 January 18
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John R. Vineyard, Virginia's Conestoga: Defining Shenandoah Freight Wagons, 1750-1850
Vineyard, John R.1992 September 16
Scope and Contents
Describes the history of freight wagons in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia in the 18th and 19th centuries. Compares the
characteristics and construction techniques used on a number of Virginia-made wagons to those made in Pennsylvania, more commonly
known as Conestoga wagons. Includes two charts and a glossary of technical terms.
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James W. Wilson, The Mossy Creek Iron Works
Wilson, James W.1994 February 14
Scope and Contents
Describes the founding and operation of the Mossy Creek Iron Works, in Augusta County, Virginia. The mill was built in the
mid-1770s by Henry Miller and his partner, Mark Bird. Discusses the variety of iron products produced by the mill, as well
as ancillary commodities produced by Miller on the property. In addition to pig and bar iron, Miller's facilities also produced
specialty steel, charcoal, paper, flour, beef, and a variety of animal products. Describes financial transactions with customers,
such as James Madison, then a colonel in the Orange County militia, and several lawsuits involving Miller and his neighbors.
Mentions Millers use of slaves and indentured servants as laborers, and briefly mentions his father's and sons' involvement
in the business.
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Nate Yoder, Virginia Mennonites: From Traditionalists to Fundamentalists
Yoder, Nathan E., 1955-20201994 January 24
Scope and Contents
Describes the history of the Mennonite Church in Virginia in the 19th century with a focus on schisms arising between traditionalists
and progressives. Outlines the controversies surrounding Mennonite pacifist doctrine during the Civil War. Mentions internal
church debates over adopting a standardized style of dress for its members. Discusses the careers of notable Mennonite leaders
and evangelical preachers such as George R. Brunk, John F. Funk, L.J. Heatwole, and J.B. Smith. Describes the founding of
Goshen College in Indiana, as one of the first Mennonite colleges, and the doctrinal controversies at the college that led
to the founding of the Eastern Mennonite School, (later Eastern Mennonite University), in Harrisonburg, Virginia.