Local History and Special Collections Branch, Alexandria Library
717 Queen StreetAlexandria, VA 22314
Business Number: 703-746-1791
lhsc@alexlibraryva.org
URL: http://alexlibraryva.org/lhsc
Subjects and Indexing Terms
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
- United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783
- Virginia -- History -- Alexandria
- Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Collection consists entirely of audio cassettes and may not be accessible due to limited audio cassette players at Alexandria Library. Offsite digital preservation may be required.
Significant Persons Associated With the Collection
- Bradford, James C.
- Harper, Jarvis M., Col. (Jarvis Maynard), 1907-1997
- Worsley, Thomas B. (Thomas Blanchard), 1911-2009
Significant Places Associated With the Collection
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
- United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783
- Virginia -- History -- Alexandria
- Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Container List
American Revolution Lectures
1980-1994English.
- Audio box: 1 object: 1
Not Worth a Continental - Inflation During the American Revolution.Worsley, Thomas B. (Thomas Blanchard), 1911-20091 Cassettes1980-02-06English.
- Audio box: 1 object: 2
John Paul Jones - An Illustrated BiographyBradford, James C.1 Cassettes1980-04-02English.
- Audio box: 1 object: 3
Bunker Hill and New Orleans - SimilaritiesHarper, Jarvis M., Col. (Jarvis Maynard), 1907-19971 Cassettes1980-05-07English.
- Audio box: 1 object: 4
The role of Women in the revolution2 Cassettes1980-10-01English.
- Audio box: 1 object: 5
Patrick Henry1 Cassettes1981-01-07English.
- Audio box: 1 object: 6
Aaron Burr - Rascal of the Revolution1 Cassettes1981-04-14English.
- Audio box: 1 object: 7
Yorktown: A Naval Victory of Note1 Cassettes1981-09-02English.
- Audio box: 1 object: 8
Yorktown - Land Campaign: March, Siege, Victory1 Cassettes1981-10-07English.
- Audio box: 1 object: 9
Continentals and Les Troops de la Terre1 Cassettes1981-11-04English.
- Audio box: 1 object: 10
Lafayette1 Cassettes1981-12-03English.
- Audio box: 1 object: 11
Yorktown: Meditation on Victory and Defeat1 Cassettes1981English.
- Audio box: 1 object: 12
Martial Music of Yorktown, the Music of Turkey Farm Orchestra1 Cassettes1981English.
- Audio box: 1 object: 13
The Swamp Fox1 Cassettes1982-01-06English.
- Audio box: 1 object: 14
George Washington - Citizen Soldier1 Cassettes1982-02-03English.
- Audio box: 1 object: 15
Charles Carroll of Carrollton - Conservative Revolutionary1 Cassettes1982-03-03English.
- Audio box: 1 object: 16
The American Revolution from the Viewpoint of Virginia1 Cassettes1982-04-07English.
- Audio box: 1 object: 17
Jefferson and the American Revolution1 Cassettes1982-05-05English.
- Audio box: 1 object: 18
Washington at Newburgh1 Cassettes1982-09-08English.
- Audio box: 1 object: 19
Yorktown 201 Years Ago - Or How to Re-enact etc.1 Cassettes1982-10-06English.
- Audio box: 1 object: 20
The Big Redhead: George Rogers Clark1 Cassettes1982-11-03English.
- Audio box: 1 object: 21
The Dutch Alliance, 1782-19821 Cassettes1982-12-01English.
- Audio box: 1 object: 22
The British in the American Revolution1 Cassettes1983-01-05English.
- Audio box: 1 object: 23
Lord Dunmore's Emancipation Proclamation1 Cassettes1983-02-02English.
- Audio box: 1 object: 24
The Battle of Guilford Courthouse1 Cassettes1983-03-02English.
- Audio box: 1 object: 25
Perspectives of a Gentleman from Alexandria, VA. on April 6,17831 Cassettes1983-04-06English.
- Audio box: 1 object: 26
Society of the Cincinnati1 Cassettes1983-05-04English.
- Audio box: 1 object: 27
Miracle in Paris - Treaty of 17831 Cassettes1983-09-07English.
- Audio box: 1 object: 28
Microcosm of the Revolution: Continental Gunboat Philadelphia1 Cassettes1983-10-03English.
- Audio box: 1 object: 29
Braddock's Campaign - The Potomac Route to the West1 Cassettes1983-11-02English.
- Audio box: 1 object: 30
Robert Fulton - Pioneer of Undersea Warfare1 Cassettes1983-12-07English.
- Audio box: 1 object: 31
State navies in the American Revolution1 Cassettes1984-01-04English.
- Audio box: 1 object: 32
Fight for a Fourteenth State - Rebels Invade Canada. 1775-17761 Cassettes1984-02-01English.
- Audio box: 1 object: 33
Benedict Arnold1 Cassettes1984-03-07English.
- Audio box: 2 object: 34
Support Personnel - Women with Gen. Braddock's Army1 Cassettes1984-03-07English.
- Audio box: 2 object: 35
War of 1812 - Chesapeake Bay1 Cassettes1984-05-02English.
- Audio box: 2 object: 36
The Battle of Bennington1 Cassettes1984-09-05English.
- Audio box: 2 object: 37
The First Virginia Regiment1 Cassettes1984-10-03English.
- Audio box: 2 object: 38
The British 64th Regiment of Foot1 Cassettes1984-11-07English.
- Audio box: 2 object: 39
Military Operations in Pennsylvania1 Cassettes1984-12-05English.
- Audio box: 2 object: 40
Canadians in the Continental Army1 Cassettes1985-02-06English.
- Audio box: 2 object: 41
Flora MacDonald and the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge1 Cassettes1985-03-06English.
- Audio box: 2 object: 42
George Mason: The Man and His Contributions1 Cassettes1985-04-03English.
- Audio box: 2 object: 43
The Revolution Moves to Charlottesville - And So Do We1 Cassettes1985-05-01English.
- Audio box: 2 object: 44
Was the Continental Navy a Mistake?1 Cassettes1985-09-04English.
- Audio box: 2 object: 45
The Brunswickers1 Cassettes1985-10-02English.
- Audio box: 2 object: 46
Rochambeau and L' Expedition Particuliere1 Cassettes1985-11-06English.
- Audio box: 2 object: 47
Prelude to the Constitution1 Cassettes1985-12-04English.
- Audio box: 2 object: 48
George Washington's Papers1 Cassettes1986-01-08English.
- Audio box: 2 object: 49
The Commissary General of the Military Stores Dept.1 Cassettes1986-02-05English.
- Audio box: 2 object: 50
The Role of Colonial Agents in the Era of the Revolution1 Cassettes1986-03-05English.
- Audio box: 2 object: 51
Our First Lady, Martha Washington1 Cassettes1986-04-02English.
- Audio box: 2 object: 52
Shay's Rebellion1 Cassettes1986-09-03English.
- Audio box: 2 object: 53
Nathanael Greene1 Cassettes1986-10-01English.
- Audio box: 2 object: 54
Naval War in the Caribbean1 Cassettes1986-11-05English.
- Audio box: 2 object: 55
The Continental Marines1 Cassettes1986-12-03English.
- Audio box: 2 object: 56
The Fairfax Family1 Cassettes1987-01-07English.
- Audio box: 2 object: 57
Banastre Tarleton1 Cassettes1987-02-04English.
- Audio box: 2 object: 58
The Northwest Frontier1 Cassettes1987-03-04English.
- Audio box: 2 object: 59
French Naval Operations, 17781 Cassettes1987-04-01English.
- Audio box: 2 object: 60
Seahorse Expedition: The British Raid on Alexandria,18141 Cassettes1987-05-06English.
- Audio box: 2 object: 61
Captain John Posey1 Cassettes1987-09-02English.
- Audio box: 2 object: 62
A Few Good Men: George Washington and the beginnings of the1 Cassettes1987-10-07English.
- Audio box: 2 object: 63
Essek Hopkins: The Navy's First Commodore1 Cassettes1987-11-04English.
- Audio box: 2 object: 64
Alexandrians Present at the Creation of the Constitution1 Cassettes1987-11-28English.
- Audio box: 2 object: 65
Joshua Barney and the Two Wars of American Independence1 Cassettes1987-12-02English.
- Audio box: 2 object: 66
Popular Music in Colonial Times and the Revolution1 Cassettes1988-01-06English.
- Audio box: 2 object: 67
Wharves of Colonial America1 Cassettes1988-02-03English.
- Audio box: 2 object: 68
Spain in the American Revolution1 Cassettes1988-03-02English.
- Audio box: 3 object: 69
Adrienne, the Marquise de La Fayette1 Cassettes1988-04-06English.
- Audio box: 3 object: 70
Carlisle During the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods1 Cassettes1988-05-04English.
- Audio box: 3 object: 71
The battle of the Titans: Virginia's Ratification of the Federal Constitution1 Cassettes1988-09-07English.
- Audio box: 3 object: 72
Benedict Arnold's Career as a British Officer1 Cassettes1988-10-05English.
- Audio box: 3 object: 73
American Revolutionary Pension Legislation1 Cassettes1988-11-02English.
- Audio box: 3 object: 74
The Battle of Hubbardton1 Cassettes1988-12-07English.
- Audio box: 3 object: 75
L'Expedition Particuliere, Part II1 Cassettes1989-01-04English.
- Audio box: 3 object: 76
Wooden Teeth, Etc. - Archeology at Mount Vernon1 Cassettes1989-02-01English.
- Audio box: 3 object: 77
The Battle of King's Mountain1 Cassettes1989-03-01English.
- Audio box: 3 object: 78
Sea Control: Key to Victory at Yorktown1 Cassettes1989-05-03English.
- Audio box: 3 object: 79
The American Revolution as a World War1 Cassettes1989-09-06English.
- Audio box: 3 object: 80
The French North American Naval Campaign of 17781 Cassettes1989-10-04English.
- Audio box: 3 object: 81
Chaplains in the Armies of the American Revolution1 Cassettes1989-11-01English.
- Audio box: 3 object: 82
Not Worth a Continental - How Inflation sapped America's Revolutionary1 Cassettes1989-12-06English.
- Audio box: 3 object: 83
The Basic Training of George Washington1 Cassettes1990-02-07English.
- Audio box: 3 object: 84
Why the British Burned Washington1 Cassettes1990-03-07English.
- Audio box: 3 object: 85
Patriots in Petticoats1 Cassettes1990-04-04English.
- Audio box: 3 object: 86
Turtle Shell, Etc.: The Chesapeake Flotilla1 Cassettes1990-05-02English.
- Audio box: 3 object: 87
Prologue to Revolution: The Stamp act Crisis, 1764 -17661 Cassettes1990-09-05English.
- Audio box: 3 object: 88
Rebels Before Their Time: The North Carolina Regulator Movement1 Cassettes1990-10-03English.
- Audio box: 3 object: 89
General Nathanael Greene1 Cassettes1990-11-07English.
- Audio box: 3 object: 90
Interpreting the Revolutionary War in South Carolina1 Cassettes1990-12-05English.
- Audio box: 3 object: 91
The Trenton-Princeton Campaign1 Cassettes1991-02-06English.
- Audio box: 3 object: 92
Origin of the U.S. Navy's Mediterranean Squadron, 1783-18161 Cassettes1991-03-06English.
- Audio box: 3 object: 93
Major Lawrence Washington vs. Rev. Charles Greene1 Cassettes1991-04-03English.
- Audio box: 3 object: 94
The Campaign For a Capitol: Alexandria's Struggle For the Prize1 Cassettes1991-04-24English.
- Audio box: 3 object: 95
Drums Along the Mohawk - The Battle of Oriskany1 Cassettes191-05-01English.
- Audio box: 3 object: 96
The First Freedom: Religion and the Bill of Rights1 Cassettes1991-09-04English.
- Audio box: 3 object: 97
Cruise of Continental Navy Frigates, 17771 Cassettes1991-10-02English.
- Audio box: 3 object: 98
The Militant Dr. Franklin1 Cassettes1991-11-06English.
- Audio box: 3 object: 99
Sister Republics: Switzerland and the U.S.1 Cassettes1991-12-04English.
- Audio box: 3 object: 100
The Humor of George Washington1 Cassettes1992-01-08English.
- Audio box: 3 object: 101
The Exploits of Captain Lambert Wickes, Continental Navy1 Cassettes1992-02-05English.
- Audio box: 3 object: 102
Some Not-So-Good Commanders in the American Revolution1 Cassettes1992-03-04English.
- Audio box: 3 object: 103
The Second Continental Congress1 Cassettes1992-04-01English.
- Audio box: 3 object: 104
The Battle of the Brandywine1 Cassettes1992-05-06English.
- Audio box: 4 object: 105
The Korean, Vietnam and American Revolutionary Wars Compared1 Cassettes1992-09-02English.
- Audio box: 4 object: 106
Royal Navy Dockyard at Portsmouth is in Flames1 Cassettes1992-10-07English.
- Audio box: 4 object: 107
Loyalists in the Southern campaign1 Cassettes1992-11-04English.
- Audio box: 4 object: 108
Billingsport: Washington Never Slept There1 Cassettes1992-12-02English.
- Audio box: 4 object: 109
Role and Rule of law in the American Revolution1 Cassettes1993-02-03English.
- Audio box: 4 object: 110
Who Were the Colonial Americans?1 Cassettes1993-03-03English.
- Audio box: 4 object: 111
The Role of Thomas Jefferson in the Revolutionary War1 Cassettes1993-04-07English.
- Audio box: 4 object: 112
The Delaware river campaign1 Cassettes1993-05-05English.
- Audio box: 4 object: 113A
Jefferson Legacies1 Cassettes1994-09-08English.
- Audio box: 4 object: 113B
Thomas Jefferson, Friend of Alexandria1 Cassettes1993-10-27English.
Civil War Lectures
1978-1994English.
- Audio box: 4 object: 114
Lew Wallace1 Cassettes1978-02-14English.
- Audio box: 5 object: 145
Heritage of Robert E. Lee1 Cassettes1983-02-17English.
- Audio box: 5 object: 146
Prelude to Gettysburg1 Cassettes1983-03-08English.
- Audio box: 5 object: 147
How Does it Look Now?1 Cassettes1983-04-12English.
- Audio box: 5 object: 148
After Vicksburg, What of Mobile?1 Cassettes1983-09-13English.
- Audio box: 5 object: 149
A Look at John Bell Hood1 Cassettes1983-11-08English.
- Audio box: 5 object: 150
Grant and Lee at Petersburg1 Cassettes1983-12-13English.
- Audio box: 5 object: 151
It Happened at Willard's1 Cassettes1984-01-10English.
- Audio box: 5 object: 152
Mary Todd Lincoln Declared Insane1 Cassettes1984-02-14English.
- Audio box: 5 object: 153
Phil Sheridan: A Character Sketch1 Cassettes1984-03-13English.
- Audio box: 5 object: 154
John Brown1 Cassettes1984-04-10English.
- Audio box: 5 object: 155
How Lee Defeated the Confederacy1 Cassettes1984-05-08English.
- Audio box: 5 object: 156
William Walker's Mutiny1 Cassettes1984-09-11English.
- Audio box: 5 object: 157
The Battle of Mobile Bay1 Cassettes1984-10-09English.
- Audio box: 5 object: 158
Second Manassas1 Cassettes1984-11-13English.
- Audio box: 5 object: 159
Railroads in the Civil War1 Cassettes1984-12-11English.
- Audio box: 5 object: 160
Federal Manpower The First Three Years of the War1 Cassettes1985-01-08English.
- Audio box: 5 object: 161
The Red River Campaign of 18641 Cassettes1985-02-12English.
- Audio box: 5 object: 162
Garibaldi and the American Civil War1 Cassettes1985-03-12English.
- Audio box: 5 object: 163
The Military History of Nathan Bedford Forrest1 Cassettes1985-04-09English.
- Audio box: 5 object: 164
Confederate Generals -- The Humorous and the Heroic1 Cassettes1985-05-14English.
- Audio box: 5 object: 165
General Rufus Saxton1 Cassettes1985-09-10English.
- Audio box: 5 object: 166
Three Hoosiers Who Survived1 Cassettes1985-10-08English.
- Audio box: 5 object: 167
U.S. Grant1 Cassettes1985-11-12English.
- Audio box: 5 object: 168
Wartime Washington -- Social, Economic, Political1 Cassettes1985-12-10English.
- Audio box: 5 object: 169
The Inspector General Dept. In the Civil War1 Cassettes1986-01-14English.
- Audio box: 5 object: 170
An Illustrated Tour of Mr. Lincoln's City1 Cassettes1986-02-11English.
- Audio box: 5 object: 171
Sequel to Forts Henry and Donelson1 Cassettes1986-03-11English.
- Audio box: 5 object: 172
A Union Regiment's Pursuit of Reenlistment Furlough1 Cassettes1986-09-09English.
- Audio box: 5 object: 173
Mallory, Secretary of the Navy of the Confederacy1 Cassettes1986-10-07English.
- Audio box: 6 object: 174
The Nashville Campaign of 18641 Cassettes1986-11-12English.
- Audio box: 6 object: 175
The Civil War: The View From the National Archives1 Cassettes1986-12-08English.
- Audio box: 6 object: 176
Guerilla Activities in Northern Virginia1 Cassettes1987-01-13English.
- Audio box: 6 object: 177
The Vicksburg Campaign1 Cassettes1987-02-10English.
- Audio box: 6 object: 178
The U.S. Navy and the Civil War1 Cassettes1987-03-10English.
- Audio box: 6 object: 179
Rifle Fire in the Civil War1 Cassettes1987-04-04English.
- Audio box: 6 object: 180
Grant: The Man and the Image1 Cassettes1987-05-12English.
- Audio box: 6 object: 181
Gen. Benjamin Butler's Naval Brigade1 Cassettes1987-09-08English.
- Audio box: 6 object: 182
Chancelorsville, May 1-5, 18631 Cassettes1987-10-13English.
- Audio box: 6 object: 183
Was Venus a Confederate?1 Cassettes1987-11-10English.
- Audio box: 6 object: 184
James B. McPherson and the Ideals of the Old American Army1 Cassettes1988-01-12English.
- Audio box: 6 object: 185
Fort Donelson Revisited1 Cassettes1988-02-09English.
- Audio box: 6 object: 186
The Bristoe Station Campaign1 Cassettes1988-03-08English.
- Audio box: 6 object: 187
Grant As Commander1 Cassettes1988-04-12English.
- Audio box: 6 object: 188
Confederate Uniforms at Gettysburg1 Cassettes1988-05-10English.
- Audio box: 6 object: 189
The Chaplain and the General1 Cassettes1988-09-13English.
- Audio box: 6 object: 190
Grant Gives Lee the Slip1 Cassettes1988-10-10English.
- Audio box: 6 object: 191
Come Retribution: The Confederate Secret Service1 Cassettes1988-11-08English.
- Audio box: 6 object: 192
Music of the Confederacy Revisited1 Cassettes1988-12-13English.
- Audio box: 6 object: 193
The Army of Tennessee vs. The Army of Northern Virginia1 Cassettes1989-01-10English.
- Audio box: 6 object: 194
General Joseph E. Johnston1 Cassettes1989-02English.
- Audio box: 6 object: 195
Champion Hill--Key to Vicksburg1 Cassettes1989-03-17English.
- Audio box: 6 object: 196
Religion in the Civil War1 Cassettes1989-04-11English.
- Audio box: 6 object: 197
First Manassas: A New and Different Perspective1 Cassettes1989-05-09English.
- Audio box: 6 object: 198
The Preacher and the Emancipation Proclamation1 Cassettes1989-09-12English.
- Audio box: 6 object: 199
Why Did the South Lose the Civil War?1 Cassettes1989-10-20English.
- Audio box: 6 object: 200
Judah P. Benjamin Revisited1 Cassettes1989-11-14English.
- Audio box: 6 object: 201
The Lady in the Veil1 Cassettes1990-01-09English.
- Audio box: 6 object: 202
Rewriting the War of 18631 Cassettes1990-02-13English.
- Audio box: 6 object: 203
West Point During the Civil War1 Cassettes1990-09-08English.
- Audio box: 6 object: 204
Blacks, Women and Hispanics in the Confederacy1 Cassettes1990-10-09English.
- Audio box: 6 object: 205
The Battle of Brandy Station1 Cassettes1990-11-13English.
- Audio box: 6 object: 206
Franklin and Nashville - The Middle Tennessee Campaign, 18641 Cassettes1990-12-11English.
- Audio box: 6 object: 207
Camp Curtin - 'Boot Camp' of the union Army1 Cassettes1991-01English.
- Audio box: 6 object: 208
Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties1 Cassettes1991-02-12English.
- Audio box: 6 object: 209
Second Manassas: A New Look1 Cassettes1991-03-12English.
- Audio box: 6 object: 210
Civil War Music1 Cassettes1991-03-15English.
- Audio box: 7 object: 211
XI Corps on the First Day of the Battle of Gettysburg1 Cassettes1991-04-09English.
- Audio box: 7 object: 212
Blockade Running During the Civil War1 Cassettes1991-05-14English.
- Audio box: 7 object: 213
The Chicago Mercantile Battery1 Cassettes1991-09-10English.
- Audio box: 7 object: 214
Does Death on the Battlefield Make a General Great?1 Cassettes1991-10-02English.
- Audio box: 7 object: 215
Confederate Florida1 Cassettes1991-11-12English.
- Audio box: 7 object: 216
Old Jube and Uncle Phil1 Cassettes1991-12-10English.
- Audio box: 7 object: 217
The Lincoln Assassination: A New Perspective1 Cassettes1992-02-11English.
- Audio box: 7 object: 218
The Five Forks Campaign, March 29 to April 1, 18651 Cassettes1992-03-10English.
- Audio box: 7 object: 219
The Bermuda Hundred Campaign1 Cassettes1992-04-14English.
- Audio box: 7 object: 220
Why the Civil War Still Lives1 Cassettes1992-05-12English.
- Audio box: 7 object: 221
Mosby- An Overview of the Gray Ghost1 Cassettes1992-06-09English.
- Audio box: 7 object: 222
Glorietta Pass- Antietam of the West1 Cassettes1992-09-08English.
- Audio box: 7 object: 223
Battle of Franklin - Who Speaks for the Dead?1 Cassettes1992-11-10English.
- Audio box: 7 object: 224
Mosby vs. Sheridan in the Shenandoah1 Cassettes1992-12-08English.
- Audio box: 7 object: 225
The Monocacy1 Cassettes1993-02-09English.
- Audio box: 7 object: 226
Stonewall Jackson's Failed Protégés1 Cassettes1993-03-09English.
- Audio box: 7 object: 227
Considering Lee Considered1 Cassettes1993-05-11English.
- Audio box: 7 object: 228
The Road to Disunion - The Slavery Issue, 1776-18651 Cassettes1993English.
- Audio box: 7 object: 229
Columbus On the Chattahoochee - Homefront and Battlefront, 1861-18651 Cassettes1993English.
- Audio box: 7 object: 230A
Civil War Inflation and its Impact on the Outcome1 Cassettes1993English.
- Audio box: 7 object: 230B
The Two Money Bags: Chase and Memminger1 Cassettes1993English.