The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders\u27 Worldview

Beyond Race and Slavery A New Perspective on the Southern Mind Historians have waited a long time for this book. Its arrival, coupled with Michl O\u27Brien\u27s recent Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860 (The University of North Carolina P...

Rights of humans, rights of states: the academic legacy of St. George Tucker in nineteenth-century Virginia

College professors in the nineteenth-century South lavished a great deal of attention on the issues of slavery and constitutionalism, and they paid careful attention to the connections between these issues and the idea of natural rights. In this dissertation I offer an analysis of the lives and writings of three generations of college professors in nineteenth-century Virginia, focusing especially on St. George Tucker and his descendants. As a contemporary of Thomas Jefferson and as a delegate to the Annapolis convention, Tucker can rightly be considered as one of the founding fathers. But he is best known for inaugurating the academic discourse on the issues of slavery and constitutionalism in his capacity as professor of law at the College of William and Mary. His sons, Henry and Beverley Tucker, and his grandson John Randolph Tucker kept this academic tradition alive. Members of the Tucker family continuously espoused a modern theory of natural rights based upon a contractual understanding of how people come to exist in society. By the 1850s, however, some professors such as George Frederick Holmes had abandoned the philosophy of modern natural rights in favor of a re-articulation of classic or ancient natural right: a non-contractual conception of the right to rule. This recovery made possible the “positive good” defense of slavery, but it put a strain upon the orthodox theory of constitutional interpretation that had been at the center of Virginian political thought. This dissertation examines how the Tuckers and others strove to keep the philosophy of the founding generation alive throughout the various political upheavals of the nineteenth century

1877-05-31

The Old Commonwealth was a weekly newspaper published in Harrisonburg, Va., between 1865 and 1884

A Hedonic Price Comparison of Manufactured and Site-Built Homes in the Non-MSA United States

This research used the hedonic price technique to focus on a housing characteristic that has been studied infrequently: whether a home is site-built or manufactured. Two hedonic price regression models were used to determine the predictive power of construction type on home price. The first, which controlled for factors found to relate to home prices in previous research, showed a significant difference between the prices of the two types of homes. The second, which also included other variables through a stepwise regression, found that the type of construction had more predictive power than any other explanatory variable in the model

1876-08-24

The Old Commonwealth was a weekly newspaper published in Harrisonburg, Va., between 1865 and 1884

1878-02-28

The Old Commonwealth was a weekly newspaper published in Harrisonburg, Va., between 1865 and 1884

1875-03-25

The Old Commonwealth was a weekly newspaper published in Harrisonburg, Va., between 1865 and 1884

1876-09-14

The Old Commonwealth was a weekly newspaper published in Harrisonburg, Va., between 1865 and 1884

1877-08-09

The Old Commonwealth was a weekly newspaper published in Harrisonburg, Va., between 1865 and 1884

1877-03-15

The Old Commonwealth was a weekly newspaper published in Harrisonburg, Va., between 1865 and 1884