Scalawag tells the surprising story of a white working-class boy who became an unlikely civil rights activist. Born in 1935 in Richmond, where he was sent to segregated churches and schools, Ed Peeple
Dunmore's New World tells the stranger-than-fiction story of Lord Dunmore, the last royal governor of Virginia, whose long-neglected life boasts a measure of scandal and intrigue rare in the annals of
Volume 22 of the Revolutionary War Series covers 1 Aug. through 21 Oct. 1779. As it begins, Washington is focused on expanding and strengthening the fortifications at West Point, N.Y., in the wake of
For more than one thousand years the monastic republic of Mount Athos has been one of the most chronicled and yet least accessible places in the Mediterranean. Difficult to reach until the last centur
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
This collection of four essays derived from a lecture series held at the University of Virginia in 2008, provides students of philosophy and the history of philosophy with a valuable look at the recen
In the exhibitions of the Tobacco Project Duke 2000, the Tobacco Project Shanghai 2004, and the Tobacco Project Virginia 2011 at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Chinese artist Xu Bing explored the h
In 1997 Rita Gans generously gave the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts an outstanding array of English silver from the collection she and her late husband, Jerome, had amassed over some thirty years. Than
By chance, Greene, a poet and nonfiction author, bought a property that is part of one of the most densely populated wild boar habitats in Europe. Writing in conversational narrative style with a sens
Entering its fifth year, Best New Poets has established itself as a crucial venue for rising poets and a valuable resource for poetry lovers. The only publication of its kind, this annual anthology i
Few leaders of the new American nation had more influence than John Jay (1745–1829), or could match his contributions in all three branches of government, at both state and national levels. A leading
As with so many other things, Americans tend to think that the slave trade was a distinctly American phenomenon. It was not. During the American colonial period and early years of nationhood, other co
A new museum and education center that opened in October 2006 offered visitors a window into the spiritual life on the plantation of the first US president, but Thompson decided that the constraints i
Abandoned by her mother and sent to live with relatives in Dakar, the author tells of being educated in the French colonial school system, where she comes gradually to feel alienated from her family
Mazella (English, U. of Houston) began his study by asking why modern Americans are so afraid of cynics and cynicism. In short, his analysis found that cynics are feared because they threaten the publ
The primary goal of Segura (political science, U. of Iowa) and Bowler (political science, U. of California at Riverside) in presenting the 12 papers contained in this volume is to bridge the gap betwe
Part of a five-part series, this volume contains all of Washington's correspondence during the first five months of 1793, both the letters he wrote and those he received. Among the topics are detailed
Gisèle Pineau was born, and spent the first fourteen years of her life, in Paris. Her parents, originally from the island of Guadeloupe, were part of the massive transplantation of Antilleans to the m
McLaughlin (English, Ohio U.) contends that the foreignness of the colonies impacted British culture at home as well as vice versa. The Sherlockian tales
Many hikers on the Appalachian Trail take books as companions, in spite of the extra weight in their packs, but Ian Marshall carries the habit to new literary, ecological, and spiritual heights. In th
In the early months of 1798, Washington's correspondence relates mostly to such private concerns as the management of his Mount Vernon estate, his tenants in Virginia, his lands in the West and in Pen
During the sixteenth century close to thirty German dukes, landgraves, and counts, plus one Holy Roman emperor, were known as mad- so mentally disordered that serious steps had to be taken to remove t
Translated for the first time into English, this collection of short fiction by one of the leading writers of North Africa details the plight of Algerian women and raises far-reaching issues that spe
The days of choosing between a handful of imports and a convenience store six-pack are long gone. The beer landscape in America has changed dramatically in the twenty-first century, as the nation has
Established in 1836, the Bristol Zoo is the world’s oldest surviving zoo outside of a capital city and has frequently been at the vanguard of zoo innovation. In The Wild Within, Andrew Flack uses the
The celebrated and highly versatile writer Leïla Sebbar was born in French colonial Algeria but has lived nearly her entire adult life in France, where she is recognized as a major voice on the penetr
In the first book to consider the study of world religion and world literature in concert, Zhange Ni proposes a new reading strategy that she calls "pagan criticism," which she appli
This second volume of selections from Caroline Healey Dall’s diary extends her story into the crucial period of her central role in the American women’s movement and her position as a founder of the A
The story of slavery in the US has tended to focus on the crucial decades 1831-1861, which witnessed the rise of the abolitionist movement, various acts of rebellion, and the Civil War. Here historian
Despite what you've seen on TV and the movies, there were no "wanted" posters in the Old West. (The first one--advising the public about a "notorious" draft dodger--didn't appear until 1917.) From pre
For those who have ever wondered why we have trees in cities or what makes the layout of cities like Paris and Amsterdam seem so memorable, City Trees: A Historical Geography from the Renaissance thr
He was not just a public man but the founder of a nation that was far from secure in its identity. Hundreds of funeral processions and memorial services, most featuring empty flag-draped coffins, foll
John E. Booty's edition of The Book of Common Prayer, 1559, first published by the University Press of Virginia for the Folger Shakespeare Library in 1976 and long out of print, is now being reissued
B&w photographs taken of Shenandoah over 20 years, which are available as posters at the park and the subject of a Virginia Museum of Fine Arts traveling exhibition, are featured in conjunction wi
Poet and critic Jarrell was known as one of the "American Bloomsbury Circle" of the 1950s. This collection of his letters, covering the period 1935 to 1965, is presented as a window into the literary
Schwarz argues that by migrating to states to the north and west of their native Virginia especially to Ohio to escape from the practice of slavery, both the well- known figures, such as fugitive Anth
For Henry Adams at the turn of the twentieth century, as for his successors in the twenty-first, the relation of mind to a world remade by technology and geopolitical conflict largely determined the d
In the autumn of 1751, at the age of nineteen, George Washington sailed with his older half-brother Lawrence from Virginia to the Caribbean island of Barbados—the one and only time that the future Rev
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
Restored to its original splendor, Montpelier is now a national shrine, but before Montpelier became a place of study and tribute, it was a home. Often kept from it by the business of the young nation
