Historical Perspectives
Family history does not exist in isolation. Discover the events, traditions, and historical settings that influenced the lives of our ancestors and the generations that followed.
Few counties in southwestern Virginia carry a settlement history as tangled with the story of the frontier itself as Scott...
Few routes in American history influenced the settlement of the southern frontier more than the Wilderness Road. It was never...
The American Revolution is often described as a colonial uprising against British rule, but in South Carolina’s backcountry, it unfolded...
In the decades following American independence, a quiet but massive redistribution of population was underway across the eastern United States...
When John C. Yandle left Tennessee for Missouri, he was moving with the grain of his era rather than against...
When the Civil War began in 1861, James McKnight Bates was twenty-two years old, recently married to Sarah Jane Yandle...