This blog is on Late Colonial Virginia, 1712-1775, featuring twelve books from reviews in the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 2012-2014. There is one in “References: Maps and Mapping”, three in “Social History”, three in “Slavery and Captivity” and five in “Political History”. Related titles linked and pictured are taken from books authored by...
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This Virginia History Blog looks at three recently published Late Colonial Virginia titles reviewed in Fall 2018. They are related to political and social history, economic history, and material cultural history. Current releases related to Virginia history in other eras from Spring 2018 journals can be found in previous Virginia History Blogs at Colonial Virginia...
We return to our cycle of book reviews by Virginia history eras with a blog for Early Colonial Virginia, 1600-1712. The list of thirteen titles are made up from those found in the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 2012-2014. There are three in “First Years”, three in “Growth of Empire”, four in “Established Colony”...
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The TVH webpage plan going forward is to make Virginia history accessible to readers by (a) reviewing current Virginia history books (2018-2019) on the Virginia History Blog, (b) completing reviews for the years 2006 – 2016 on the landing pages of four Virginia historical periods 1600 – 1776, 1750 – 1824, 1820 – 1883, 1880...
In this Virginia History Blog, we consider New South and Modern Virginia part two, looking at titles on its economies and environment, and then biographies from the period. Economy and Environment in the New South and Modern Virginia. “The New Economy and the New South”, “The Oyster Question” looks at fisheries in the Chesapeake Bay,...
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In this Virginia History Blog, we look at the New South and Modern Virginia part one, with titles relating to Civil Rights and Social History. Civil Rights in the New South and Modern Virginia. Two titles from Summer 2018 include “A Civil Life in an Uncivil Time” on Alexandria in the Civil War and Gilded...
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In this Virginia History Blog on Reconstruction Virginia, we look at the aftermath of the Civil War conflict. Nation Building in Reconstruction Virginia. “Wars within a War” describes the controversy and conflict that emerged after the end of regular army hostilities. “This Republic of Suffering” accounts for how the survivors of the Civil War carnage...
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In this Virginia History Blog on Civil War Battles, we consider Prosecution of the Civil War in Virginia. Accounts of the ferocity during the Civil War are related in “A Savage Conflict” describing guerilla war perpetrated on both sides, and “Haunted by Atrocity” describes conditions in Civil War prison camps. Two titles are from the...
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In this Virginia History Blog, we examine titles related to the Civil War in Virginia. Confederate Army in Virginia. “The American Civil War” is a military history of the conflict, “The View From the Ground” relates the soldier experience, and “Why Confederates Fought” explores family and nation in Civil War Virginia. Virginia and Virginians. The...
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In this Virginia History Blog on the onset of the Civil War, we examine the run-up to secession in “Year of Meteors” portending dire omens at the 1860 Presidential Election, and “Age of Strict Construction” showing the growth of federal power that Lincoln stood to inherit. “Fragile Fabric of Union” addresses the origins of the...
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