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Revolution and New Nation revisited

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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Federalist Era in New Nation Virginia

We begin our look at the Federalist Era in New Nation Virginia with a national look at politics through the two Federalist presidents, George Washington and John Adams in “Presidency of George Washington” and “First Presidential Contest: 1796” for Adams’ election. The development of political parties that were in Revolutionary theory the death knell of...

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