Teddy's Child: Growing Up in the Anxious Southern Gentry Between the Great Wars
Dr. Virginia Hamilton has long been admired for the prose styling of her academic publications and the vigor of her research. In Teddy’s Child: Growing Up in the Anxious Southern Gentry Between the Great Wars, the respected historian chronicles her own lineage and discovers the commonalities that transcend the generations. Supplemented by images of family memorabilia, this scrapbook cum thesis explores the foibles, virtues, singularities, and collective tendencies that constitute a heritage and help explain one generation to another.
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Teddy's Child: Growing Up in the Anxious Southern Gentry Between the Great Wars
Dr. Virginia Hamilton has long been admired for the prose styling of her academic publications and the vigor of her research. In Teddy’s Child: Growing Up in the Anxious Southern Gentry Between the Great Wars, the respected historian chronicles her own lineage and discovers the commonalities that transcend the generations. Supplemented by images of family memorabilia, this scrapbook cum thesis explores the foibles, virtues, singularities, and collective tendencies that constitute a heritage and help explain one generation to another.
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Teddy's Child: Growing Up in the Anxious Southern Gentry Between the Great Wars

Teddy's Child: Growing Up in the Anxious Southern Gentry Between the Great Wars

by Virginia Van der Veer Hamilton
Teddy's Child: Growing Up in the Anxious Southern Gentry Between the Great Wars

Teddy's Child: Growing Up in the Anxious Southern Gentry Between the Great Wars

by Virginia Van der Veer Hamilton

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Dr. Virginia Hamilton has long been admired for the prose styling of her academic publications and the vigor of her research. In Teddy’s Child: Growing Up in the Anxious Southern Gentry Between the Great Wars, the respected historian chronicles her own lineage and discovers the commonalities that transcend the generations. Supplemented by images of family memorabilia, this scrapbook cum thesis explores the foibles, virtues, singularities, and collective tendencies that constitute a heritage and help explain one generation to another.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781588384614
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Publication date: 06/15/2021
Pages: 216
Product dimensions: 7.62(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

During and after World War II, VIRGINIA VAN DER VEER HAMILTON became a pioneer in journalism and academe—two careers in which only a small minority of women then participated. Hired as a typist in the Washington, DC bureau of The Associated Press (AP), she rose to become the AP reporter for the "women's beat" at the Truman White House. While a wife and mother, she became the second woman to earn a PhD from the History Department of The University of Alabama. She taught at The University of Alabama at Birmingham, chaired its history department for ten years and wrote eight award-winning books as well as numerous articles in scholarly journals, American Heritage, and The New York Times.

During and after World War II, VIRGINIA VAN DER VEER HAMILTON became a pioneer in journalism and academe—two careers in which only a small minority of women then participated. Hired as a typist in the Washington, DC bureau of The Associated Press (AP), she rose to become the AP reporter for the "women's beat" at the Truman White House. While a wife and mother, she became the second woman to earn a PhD from the History Department of The University of Alabama. She taught at The University of Alabama at Birmingham, chaired its history department for ten years and wrote eight award-winning books as well as numerous articles in scholarly journals, American Heritage, and The New York Times.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Family Sources xi

The Arrival 3

Part 1 How It All Began

To the Reader 10

The Belle of the Bluegrass 11

The Handsome Distillery Manager 15

Marrying for Love and Beauty (Example 1) 18

Frankfort 22

Part 2 Before and After the First World War

New Orleans, 1912-1920 31

The Baseball Pitcher 33

The Ambulance Driver 38

Marrying for Love and Beauty (Example 2) 45

Enid, Oklahoma, 1920 48

Kansas City Missouri, 1921-1922 51

New York City, 1923-1924 53

Part 3 Settling Down In Birmingham-The 1920s

Teddy's Child 59

A Turning Point for Teddy 63

Going to the Picture Show 65

Walking Home from the Car Line 67

Shelter from the Elements 72

Miss Roses Place 77

Stewart's Place 81

Elizabeth 85

Dorothy 88

Other Voices 91

Food, Wonderful Food! 95

Virginia 105

The Playing Fields 109

Private School 113

Sunday School 116

Just Look at All Those Books! 118

Part 4 The Great Depression-The 1930s

A Family Business 127

Musicales 133

Public School 139

Possum Hunting 143

Writing for the Pulps 146

Our Summer Trip 155

Vaudeville, Picture Shows, and Other Pleasures 161

Part 5 We Make It Through

Ted Gets His Pulpit 167

The Bonus 170

Matters of Faith 172

Dear President Hoover 176

A Visit To Chickamauga 179

1937: Climactic Year 184

Part 6 Afterword

What Happened to Everybody? 193

Reflections on Anxiety 200

Acknowledgments 202

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