We begin our revisit to Virginia’s Revolution and New Nation era with the political history “Dunmore’s New World” about the last royal governor in Virginia, followed by the “Accommodating Revolutions”, a case study of the Revolutionary period in the Northern Neck. We then look at two titles addressing African American slave agency during war and...
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For the Revolutionary War in Virginia, we look at five very different kinds of treatment of war, its pursuit on the ground, its politics and popular support, and military establishments. “Theaters of the American Revolution” is a collection of essays charting battles and campaigns North, Middle, South, frontier and at sea. “The Politics of War”...
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In our third look at social history in this series, we examine five books addressing religion in Revolutionary Virginia. “Founders on God and Government” shows how religious beliefs influenced views of the republic. “Founding Fathers and the Place of Religion assesses the transformation of Virginia and other colonies from Christian commonwealths to secular republican governance....
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In our next social history look at the American Revolution in Virginia, we feature four books on African American history. “Slavery and Freedom” investigates the results of the Revolution on slave and free black families in the Chesapeake and elsewhere and the development of autonomous black communities. “Water from the Rock” describes the social and military...
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In our three blogs on the American Revolution in Virginia social history, we turn first to women’s studies, then African American and lastly religious history. In “Revolutionary Mothers” we see the participation of women in the Revolution with the concepts of women’s studies. “Women of the Republic” focuses on the political, while “Liberty’s Daughters” focuses...
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In this second blog on the American Revolution in Virginia, we again turn to the political. Later we will look at its social history in three blogs, and military history in one. The most singular document of the period is certainly the Declaration of Independence, and the process that brought it about is described in...
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We begin our look at the American Revolution in Virginia with six blogs, beginning with political histories (2), then social (3) and military (1). “Founding of a Nation” surveys the internal politics of all thirteen colonies and Britain, especially the three largest: Virginia, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. “Revolution in Virginia” describes the politics and war campaigns...
