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Jerrell Harris Shofner (January 30, 1929 – April 11, 2017) was an American historian and professor of history at the University of Central Florida (UCF). [1] [2] He wrote 16 books, many about Florida's history.
James was born October 12, 1805, in Prince Edward County, Virginia to Simon Hughes and Betsy Colman Bigger. He was raised just outside Farmville near Hampden-Sydney.He studied at Hampden-Sydney College as a youth until he moved to Richmond where he studied law under the guidance of William Wirt, the ninth US Attorney General.
Otto Karl Wiesenburg (August 1, 1911 – June 18, 1990) was an American legislator, lawyer, and public servant. He was a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1956 to 1964 and held various other roles in public service for Pascagoula and Jackson County, Mississippi.
The Faulconer Legion is a fictional regiment of the Commonwealth of Virginia and the Confederate Army, the central unit of the Starbuck Chronicles. Shortly after the beginning of the war, Washington Faulconer is determined to set up a regiment free of state government control because he was unimpressed by Robert E. Lee and his lack of support.
Though Burr (1973) is the second book published in the series, it is first chronologically, taking place in 1775–1808, 1833–1836, and 1840. [2] [3] In the novel, set during the politically contentious era of the Jackson administration, an elderly and active Aaron Burr recounts his experiences of the Revolutionary War and America's Founding Fathers to a young law clerk secretly working for ...
The name of Navajoe, however, lives on. In 1963, the Friendship and Warren school systems joined to build a new school halfway between the two towns. The new school, which graduated its first class in 1964 and still thrives in northeastern Jackson County, was called Navajo—this time without the addition of an "e" to satisfy the postal ...
Thousands of pages and hundreds of volunteers later, Beaufort County is closing the book on their material review process, ending with a review committee vote to ban a fifth book from schools ...
Percy Jackson & the Olympians is a fantasy novel series by American author Rick Riordan.The first book series in his Camp Half-Blood Chronicles, the novels are set in a world with the Greek gods in the 21st century.