This volume, a reprint from 1998, traces the Revolution in Virginia from 1775 to 1783. It serves as a political, administrative, and military history of the state during the period and describes how V
Walker (history, UC Davis) presents an otherwise absent historical perspective on race, sexuality and politics in the 2008 presidential election. He examines the context of Jeremiah Wright's remarks i
In this second edition of Bob Gooch’s Virginia Fishing Guide, M. W. Smith offers an updated version of a classic work of Virginia outdoor literature. Providing a new preface and appendices, Smith also
This collection of essays is an investigation into Thomas Jefferson's writings and his position on using classical philosophies and teachings of the ancient world as a model for modern policies. Jeffe
"Here is a story of naivete, ambition, duplicity, avarice, and poverty...." So states Noel (former director, Colonial Williamsburg's archaeological research program) in his prologue. Belzoni (1778-182
Edited by Ayers (president, U. of Richmond) and Martin (U. of Richmond), this volume collects the proceedings of the Virginia Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission's first annual Signa
Henry Goings, a barber and steamboat operator, was born into slavery in Virginia in 1810. After he procured the freedom papers of a man he resembled, Goings lived as a fugitive from slavery for 18 yea
Although it is now home to a housing division known as Jordan on the James, extensive archaeological excavations took place on Jordan's Point from 1987 through 1993. McCartney (research historian) tho
The essays in this collection represent the type of research that has reshaped our understanding of early American architecture over the past thirty years. Carl R. Lounsbury, three-time winner of the
The authors writing in this book provide answers to a primary question that seems to come up whenever place-based movements that focus on environmental issues are being considered: Do such movements h
In 1983, only a year after Frank Batten launched the Weather Channel (an idea that was deemed "preposterous" by his colleagues, it was on the brink of being shut down. Instead, it became a billion dol
While, as a colonial settler society, the newly independent United States certainly had many differences with later decolonizing nations composed primarily of conquered peoples, such as India for exam
Many years have passed since architect Andrea Ponsi settled in Florence, and still he feels he does not fully comprehend this mysterious city. The way Florence eludes understanding, however, can be an
Oscar Wilde's 1893 play Salome, the only one of his works to be written in French, was subsequently translated into English by Wilde's friend, Lord Alfred Douglas, in a manner judged by Wilde to be ma
This new history of Gabriel's Rebellion, the unsuccessful uprising of slaves in Richmond Virginia in 1800, examines recent literature and archival documents to provide a new perspective on the scope a
A senior historian at the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello, Stanton assembles nine essays published from 1993 to 2010, and adds two that appear here for the first time. The only changes she h
Study of the sea--both in terms of human interaction with it and its literary representation--has been largely ignored by ecocritics. In "Shakespeare's Ocean, " Dan Brayton foregrounds the maritime di
This book explores scientific representations and Western popular cultural narratives of the tropical forest through the work of naturalists, adventurers, and documentarians of the early to mid-20th c
The Supreme Court operates as nine separate law firms, with each justice hiring his or her own staff, including clerks, who are usually recent law school graduates. This collection of memoir essays by
Linked historically, culturally, and geographically, the counties that make up Southwestern Virginia and Northeastern Tennessee are also connected by a shared decorative arts tradition. "Great Road St
