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 second Virginia History Blog in a series of four on Civil Rights and Modern Virginia — political, gender, local and cultural – we look at gender history, beginning with “The Reconstruction of White Southern Womenhood” addressing three generations in the mid to late 19th century and “Women Shaping the South”, a view of...
In this Virginia History Blog, we look at recent journal reviews concerning the New South and Civil Rights eras. “The Dooley’s of Richmond” charts the business, commercial and philanthropic achievements of two generations from 1836 to 1922. “The Uplift Generation” examines the interracial efforts of whites and blacks to achieve greater equality for blacks in a...
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Our titles on the Great Depression and New Deal Virginia part two, begin with biographies of two black leaders, “Perils and Prospects” about professor and Baptist pastor Gordon Blaine Hancock, and “Song in a Weary Throat” about professor and Episcopal priest Pauli Murray. The milieu that they worked in for racial advancement is described in...
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Our titles for the Great Depression and New Deal period include a comprehensive political, economic and social survey in “Depression and New Deal in Virginia”, which we follow with “Talk About Trouble” presenting the lives of Virginias across a variety of types and conditions during this time. “This Business of Relief” studies Richmond Virginia’s private...
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