Our second look at the royal colony in 1600s Virginia begins with a look at how the English immigrants in the Chesapeake built their society. “Adapting to a New World” describes the English overseas, “Ann Orthwood’s Bastard” shows how English customary and common law was modified for producer-planter interests, and “The Formation of a Society”...
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In this blog we look at the early colony of Virginia in Jamestown, 1607-1620s, the period of struggle resulting in an English template for future colonial success after a succession of near disasters. “A Tale of Two Colonies” looks at the contemporary English colonization efforts in Virginia and Bermuda of the early 1600s. “Pocahontas and...
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In the New Dominion Virginia 1970-present part two, we look at four ways the Virginia cultural landscape changed, with the G.I. Bill in “Soldiers to Citizens”, with the growth of suburbia in “Crabgrass Frontier”, with regionalizing by automobile and trucks in “Divided Highways”, and state resource management with “The Oyster Question”. Modern social history is...
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We begin our look at the New Dominion in Virginia, 1970-present looking at an overview of politics, society and economy in “The New South, 1945-1980”. “The Dynamic Dominion” describing party realignment and the emergence of a two-party system over the same period, and “Virginia in the Vanguard” brings the story forward 1981-2000. The grassroots foundation...
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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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Our titles on the Great Depression and New Deal Virginia part two, begin with biographies of two black leaders, “Perils and Prospects” about professor and Baptist pastor Gordon Blaine Hancock, and “Song in a Weary Throat” about professor and Episcopal priest Pauli Murray. The milieu that they worked in for racial advancement is described in...
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We look at Civil War memory, white and black, in our Jim Crow Virginia part four. We begin with looking at how differences emerged in shared memories using “Race and Reunion”, “Cities of the Dead” and “Southern Past”. How women in associations and in their published writing of memoirs, novels and histories established the Lost...
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In our Jim Crow Virginia part three we look at Social Life and Social Control in Virginia, beginning with “Avenues of Faith” describing church adaptations to the challenges of modernization. We then turn to the Progressive Era’s efforts at social control in the private spheres of life with “Sexuality, Politics and Social Control in Virginia”,...
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