ACADEMICA PRESS, LLC Advanced Book Information Title: “GOING DOWN HILL”: Legacies of the American Revolutionary War Author: Harry M. Ward Credentials: PhD, Richard Binford Vest Professor of Histor
This book documents public executions in Richmond, Virginia from 1872 until 1907, when the electric chair was established and executions were removed from public view. The author is an emeritus profes
"Richmond in the late 19th century was not the genteel peaceful community historians have made it. Virginia's capital was cosmopolitan, boisterous and crime-ridden. The juvenile delinquents of Richmon
Richmond in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was home to a lively underworld of tricksters, swindlers, confidence men and thieves. The former Confederate capital’s under-staffed police force and
Ward (emeritus, history, U. of Richmond) biographically profiles 27 men and one woman from Virginia who served in the American Revolutionary War under the rank of general (four from the enlisted ranks