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,...
"New South and Modern Virginia part two, 2009-11"Continue reading
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...
"The New South and Modern Virginia part one, Summer 2018, 2009-11"Continue reading
In this Virginia History Blog, we review titles related to Virginia Modern Culture in architecture, art and education. “The Architecture of William Lawrence Bottomley” looks at his work in Virginia and New York. “Legacy: Walter Chrysler Jr.” describes the development and expansion of Norfolk’s Chrysler Museum of Art. “From VPI to State University” documents the...
"Modern Virginia Culture"Continue reading
In this third Virginia History Blog in a series of four on Civil Rights and Modern Virginia, — political, gender, local and cultural – we look at local history. Moving east to west, we begin with “The Pentagon” located in Arlington. “Roanoke” and “Sustaining Identity” (Luray) are in the Great Valley. In Appalachia we look...
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...
Virginia’s racial New South, Jim Crow and Desegregation begins with six books. “Before Jim Crow” addresses the post-Civil War politics of race and “Freedpeople in the Tobacco South” examines the political economy in 24 Virginia counties. “Managing White Supremacy” investigates race, politics and citizenship in Jim Crow Virginia through the first half of the 20th...
"Virginia’s racial New South, Jim Crow and Desegregation"Continue reading
Our look at African-American Virginia History begins with two general surveys, “‘Don’t Grieve After Me’: The Black Experience in Virginia, 1619-1986” and the earlier WPA Virginia Writer’s Project reprint, “The Negro in Virginia”. Two complementary volumes on politics, both published by the UVA Press, but half a century apart follow, “The Negro in Virginia Politics,...
"African-American Virginia History"Continue reading
