In this Virginia History Blog we look at at Thomas Jefferson, his presidential governance and his historical legacy. “Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power” is a popular account of Jefferson’s use of power in political office. “Jefferson’s Vendetta” describes the prosecution of Aaron Burr for treason during Jefferson’s second administration. “Mr. Jefferson’s Hammer” describes William...
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This Virginia History Blog reviews four titles concerning Thomas Jefferson. “The Mind of Thomas Jefferson” investigates Jefferson’s thinking in historical context. “Mr. Jefferson’s Women” accounts for the romances throughout his life. “Twilight at Monticello” describes Jefferson, his family and slaves during the last fifteen years of his life. “Thomas Jefferson’s Military Academy” looks at West...
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In this Virginia History Blog we look at five titles related to George Washington and his wife, Martha Washington. “General George Washington” examines Washington’s military career, and “The Glorious Struggle” focuses on his correspondence during his command of the Continental Army in the Revolution. “Washington’s God” looks at Washington’s personal faith practice, his theology and...
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This Virginia History Blog recaps five titles on the Founders, merchants and backcountry Virginia. “American Creation” is a top-down political survey of Revolution and Constitution eras. “George Mason, Forgotten Founder” is a biography of the Virginian Founder. “Buying into the World of Goods” explains the development of a marketing economy in Bedford and Franklin County...
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This Virginia History Blog assembles four reviews related to Early and Late Colonial Virginia warfare, both English colonial civil war and Anglo-Amerindian conflicts. For those interested in reading more deeply into mid-1600s Virginia, beyond the previously reviewed Sir William Berkeley and the Forging of Colonial Virginia by Warren M. Billings which was one of our...
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This Virginia History Blog introduces Early Colonial Cultures in Virginia by featuring two titles relating the cultural and political interactions of settlers and Algonquin tribes near and far, “Brothers among Nations” and “White People, Indians and Highlanders”. The infrastructure of early settlement is examined in two titles, “Backcountry Towns of Colonial Virginia” and “Courthouses of...
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The Virginia History Blog today looks at Early Colonial contact and culture Virginia through the reviews of five titles. “A Briefe and True Report” is a facsimile of a 1590 Latin edition with English translation and illustrated contemporary lithographs, reporting initial contact with native Algonquins, plants and animals found in the Chesapeake region. “Deadly Politics...
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In this Virginia History Blog, we begin our first digest of reviews from current journals about Colonial Era Virginia. Two are environmental histories, “A Cold Welcome” about the Little Ice Age, and “Wild by Nature” about marketed indigenous Southeast wildlife. “Esteemed Bookes of Lawe” concerns legal libraries of colonial Virginia and the training of the...
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At the four-hundred year anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, Virginia several books celebrated the event, and the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography featured a review article of a number of them altogether. Several are still readily available from their publishers. Two have previously been reviewed here as among the our Virginia Survey Bibliographies...
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Looking again at religion in New Nation Virginia, “Wellspring of Liberty” explores the role of religious dissenters in the American Revolution and their subsequent efforts to secure religious liberty in the New Nation period. “Establishing Religious Freedom” in Virginia traces the evolution from dissenter toleration to religious freedom of conscience. “Bodies of Belief” compares and...
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