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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In this Virginia History Blog, we look at elements of the Virginia Antebellum society. Progress in a slave society is examined in “Railroads in the Old South”. White male culture is explored in “Military Education and the Emerging Middle Class” and in Brothers of a Vow” about secret fraternal orders. The slaveholder’s perspective of slavery...
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In this Virginia History Blog on five titles related to Antebellum literature and thought, we begin by looking at “The Origins of Proslavery Christianity” that documents developments among Virginia’s white and black evangelicals from colonial times into the antebellum period. “Religion and the Making of Nat Turner’s Virginia” develops the conflicts within its white and...
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In this Virginia History Blog on four Civil War titles, we review “On to Petersburg” about the Overland Campaign in Virginia, “Midnight in America” concerning soldiers dreams and their interpretations, “Sex and the Civil War” on the introduction of pornography to the army and its opposition, and “Stepdaughters of History” about Southern women who were...
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In this Virginia History Blog, we look at five titles on the Antebellum Civil War Era. “A Nation Without Borders” studies the international setting in an age of 19th century civil wars. “Luxurious Citizens” addresses the politics of consumption in the 1800s. “Owning Ideas” considers the development of intellectual property. Before “Dred Scott” analyzes American...
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In this five-part review of Civil War Era literature at the Virginia History Blog, we will take a look at period topics in politics, war commands, home front, economy, slavery and memory. Turning to memory, we begin with “Diehard Rebels” describing the outlook and later influence of soldiers defending the Confederacy to the end. “Burying...
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In this five-part review of Civil War Era literature at the Virginia History Blog, we will take a look at period topics in politics, war commands, home front, economy, slavery and memory. Turning to slavery, we begin with “The Mind of the Master Class” describing the worldview of slave holders. “The Sounds of Slavery” treats...
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