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.
We were recently contacted by the son of Moreland Perkins with the news that his father had passed away. Dr. Perkins had many ties to Virginia: a Richmond native, he was educated at the University of Virginia and the Virginia Military Institute (he earned his graduate degrees at Harvard). Although best know for his philosophical work [...]
We were saddened to hear of the passing of Bertram Wyatt-Brown at the age of 80. Dr. Wyatt-Brown was the coeditor of Virginia’s Civil War and completed another book with us that will be published in Fall 2013.
Catherine Allgor, editor of the new The Queen of America: Mary Cutts’s Life of Dolley Madison, has several speaking engagements scheduled for mid-November. We have the full schedule.
Whether you call it All Hallows’ Evening, Hallowe’en, or just plain old Halloween, we thought it would be a good time to suggest a few titles to those readers feeling the spirit.