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...
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In this Virginia History Blog on Reconstruction Virginia, we look at the aftermath of the Civil War conflict. Nation Building in Reconstruction Virginia. “Wars within a War” describes the controversy and conflict that emerged after the end of regular army hostilities. “This Republic of Suffering” accounts for how the survivors of the Civil War carnage...
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In this five-part review of Civil War Era literature at the Virginia History Blog, we will take a look at period topics in politics, war commands, home front, economy, slavery and memory. Turning to slavery, we begin with “The Mind of the Master Class” describing the worldview of slave holders. “The Sounds of Slavery” treats...
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In this Virginia History Blog, we feature four titles related to New Nation and Antebellum Virginia. “Jefferson and the Press” charts the professionalism and partisanship of period newspapers, “Murder at Montpelier” documents the introduction and persistence of Igbo culture among the Piedmont’s African-Virginians. “Proslavery and Sectional Thought” explains the development of organic social theory in...
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In this installment of New South and Progressive Virginia, we conclude our Phase I reviews of 300+ titles surveyed. These were taken from the bibliographies in three Virginia history surveys covering its 400+ year history. Two were published in 2007 and are currently used in Virginia university courses, and one bibliography is from another’s draft...
In our blog for Civil Rights in Virginia part three, we examine the particulars of local and grassroots organization in desegregating Virginia schools in the 1950s and 60s. “Grassroots to the Supreme Court” studies the activists of communities located in Virginia and five other states. The local strategies of the NAACP to implement the Brown...
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Civil Rights in Virginia part two features the courts and the Virginians contributing to the civil rights litigation. We begin with an overview, “Making Civil Rights Law” describing the centrality of the NAACPs Legal Defense Fund. “From Jim Crow to Civil Rights” traces Supreme Court Cases from 1900 to 1954 on racial matters that set...
We begin our reviews of titles related to Civil Rights in Virginia 1945-1970 with an overview of political conditions in Virginia following World War II. The classic “Southern Politics” studies Virginia along with ten other Southern states, and “Harry Byrd of Virginia” analyses Virginia’s central political figure of the time. “Parting the Waters” analyzes Martin...
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Part two of our Jim Crow Virginia 1900-1945 begins with “Blue Laws and Black Codes” that focuses on Virginia law as a link between social and racial conflict and change. “Making Whiteness” discusses the culture of segregation imposed after racial progress in Reconstruction. “Separate and Unequal” discusses the connection between public school campaigns and racism...
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In our blog on Reconstruction in Virginia part two, we begin looking at the passage of the 14th amendment in the former Confederate states in”No Easy Walk to Freedom”. The development of social, economic and political community in black Hampton, Virginia is described in “Freedom’s First Generation”. And race as a social construction is explored...
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