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Early Colonial Era – 2009-2011

To begin this Virginia History Blog on the Early Colonial Era, we look at first landing settlements. “A Kingdom Strange” explores the settlement of the Lost Colony of Roanoke. “Pocahontas, Little Wanton” documents early English accounts, verifiable history and subsequent narratives, plays and pictures. “The Web of Empire” places the Virginia colony initially as a...

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Early Colonial Contact and Culture in Virginia

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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Colonial Era Virginia – Spring 2018 Journals

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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Jamestown in Virginia

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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