We have added Presidential Series volume 16 to our Papers of George Washington Digital Edition, published by our Rotunda electronic imprint. This volume contains over 500 documents from 1 May through 30 September 1794.
To mark Religious Freedom Day, John Ragosta, author of the forthcoming Religious Freedom: Jefferson’s Legacy, America’s Creed, has just published a piece in the Washington Post tracing Jefferson’s role in achieving a separation of church and state.
NPR’s Kojo Nnamdi welcomed Mapping Virginia author William Wooldridge to his show last week. The entire episode may be heard here on the Kojo Nnamdi Show official site. The web page also features a gallery of fifteen of the book’s maps.
Ivor Noël Hume’s Belzoni, an epic biography of the man who procured for the British Museum many of its most celebrated Egyptian artifacts, is among the New York Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2012.
Mapping Virginia From the Age of Exploration to the Civil War William C. Wooldridge Foreword by John T. Casteen III Cloth · 392 pp. · 12 x 10.5 · ISBN 9780813932675 · $94.95 · Nov 2012 Readers of Virginia Living magazine will receive a 25% DISCOUNT on Mapping Virginia. To take advantage of this offer, please email us at vapress@virginia.edu or call [...]
Congressman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin may be the VP candidate on the GOP ticket, but what especially interests a linguist like William Labov, author of the forthcoming Dialect Diversity in America: The Politics of Language Change, is the way the congressman pronounces a short “a” vowel.