Folk Housing in Middle Virginia: A Structural Analysis of Historic Artifacts

In this fascinating analysis of eighteenth-century vernacular houses of Middle Virginia, Henry Glassie presents a revolutionary and carefully constructed methodology for looking at houses and interpreting from them the people who built and used them. Glassie believes that all relevant historical evidence—unwritten as well as written—must be taken into account before historical truth can be found. He is convinced that any study of man’s past must make use of nonverbal and verbal evidence, si...