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Late Colonial Virginia, Fall 2018

This Virginia History Blog looks at three recently published Late Colonial Virginia titles reviewed in Fall 2018. They are related to political and social history, economic history, and material cultural history.  Current releases related to Virginia history in other eras from Spring 2018 journals can be found in previous Virginia History Blogs at Colonial Virginia...

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Antebellum Civil War, Summer 2018

In this Virginia History Blog, we look at five titles on the Antebellum Civil War Era. “A Nation Without Borders” studies the international setting in an age of 19th century civil wars. “Luxurious Citizens” addresses the politics of consumption in the 1800s. “Owning Ideas” considers the development of intellectual property. Before “Dred Scott” analyzes American...

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Late Colonial Virginia – VMHB 2009-11

In this Virginia History Blog, we explore the evolution of religious freedom surveying Virginia history “From Jamestown to Jefferson”. Virginia colonial history and environment is surveyed from pre-contact to the Age of Jefferson in “Nature and History in the Potomac Country”. The rise and decline of the Early Colonial gentry in the Late Colonial period...

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Life in 1700s Virginia

Life in 1700s Virginia is explained by two of the four British folkways transmitted in major immigration streams that established persistent cultural expressions even with subsequent settlements in “Albion’s Seed”. Life in the Church of England parish in colonial Virginia is described in “A Blessed Company, and the religious practices of the gentry are explained...

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Civil War in Virginia part three

Our third blog on the Civil War in Virginia considers a biographical focus, social history and local histories during the Civil War. Starting with Confederate General “Robert E. Lee”, the review is paired with bibliographical references to five other prominent Civil War Virginians. “Southern Lady, Yankee Spy” is both biography and social history. Individual biographies are...

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Antebellum Virginia Society

The best of Virginia’s antebellum social histories include six titles from a focus of local, ethnic, gender and religious investigation. We also include seven titles from bibliographies citing out of print books. Social and cultural histories include “American City, Southern Place” investigating antebellum Richmond, and “The Virginia Germans” looks at the two major influxes of a...

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