Challenging the generally accepted belief that the introduction of racial slavery to America was an unplanned consequence of a scarce labor market, Anthony Parent, Jr., contends that during a brief pe
Trauma and Resilience in American Indian and African American Southern History explores the dual process of a refusal to remember, that is, the force of active forgetting, and the multiple ways in whi
Four historians take one century each to tell the story of the US state. Among their topics are imperial outpost 1650-90, the Virginia dynasty 1789-1825, the Reconstruction era 1865-85, the rise of th
"On the morning of 26 April 1607, three small ships carrying 143 Englishmen arrived off the Virginia coast of North America, having spent four months at sea.... All hoped for financial succes
