In this Virginia History Blog, we review titles related to Virginia Modern Culture in architecture, art and education. “The Architecture of William Lawrence Bottomley” looks at his work in Virginia and New York. “Legacy: Walter Chrysler Jr.” describes the development and expansion of Norfolk’s Chrysler Museum of Art. “From VPI to State University” documents the...
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In this third Virginia History Blog in a series of four on Civil Rights and Modern Virginia, — political, gender, local and cultural – we look at local history. Moving east to west, we begin with “The Pentagon” located in Arlington. “Roanoke” and “Sustaining Identity” (Luray) are in the Great Valley. In Appalachia we look...
In this Virginia History Blog, we look at recent journal reviews concerning the New South and Civil Rights eras. “The Dooley’s of Richmond” charts the business, commercial and philanthropic achievements of two generations from 1836 to 1922. “The Uplift Generation” examines the interracial efforts of whites and blacks to achieve greater equality for blacks in a...
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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 memory, we begin with “Diehard Rebels” describing the outlook and later influence of soldiers defending the Confederacy to the end. “Burying...
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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 the home front, we begin with titles related to the state as a whole during the conflict, “Virginia at War, 1861”...
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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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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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