950 Pages • Over 100 Portraits
Two Volumes • Hardcover • 5.5 x 8.5 Page Size
Place Index • Copyright 2008
ISBN 10 digit 1878592424 • ISBN 13 digit 9781878592483 •
Price $95.00
VIRGINIA BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY is the definitive biographical reference on Virginia. The persons profiled were chosen from various vocations. Activists, artists, authors, athletes, educators, business leaders, entertainers, historians, inventors, journalists, military figures, musicians, politicians, philanthropists, religious leaders and many other vocations. The PLACE INDEX will make it easy to research people from cities or towns in Virginia.
The editorial content of the work is well balanced over all time periods, as well as gender and political affiliations. The work contains historical and contemporary figures.
Minority studies are of special interest in schools today. February is Black History Month and November is National American Indian Heritage Month. Biographies on Native Americans and African Americans are included in this reference work for research on minority studies.
March is National Women’s History Month and VIRGINIA BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY includes biographies of women from various vocations, ethnicity and time periods.
VIRGINIA BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY will be used year round by students and teachers on the various studies on Virginia history, African American history, American Indian history and Women’s history.
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