In this Virginia History Blog, we begin with “Virginia in the Vanguard”, a look at political leadership over the last 20 years of the 20th century and “Global Perspectives” investigates the economic development of the South through the 19th and 20th centuries. “A Class of Their Own” examines black educational history over the century of...
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Virginia’s Gilded Age New South is introduced in five books. New Spirits: Americans in the Gilded Age, encompasses American political, economic, and cultural history 1865 to 1905, then Origins of the New South looks at the time period as a political history including Virginia, and The Promise of the New South treats economic and cultural...
"Virginia’s Gilded Age New South: Overviews"Continue reading
