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Revolutionary Turns
Religion and America's Founding Era
Edited by Katherine Carté

"Capitalism and Slavery" Revisited
The Impact and Legacy of Eric Williams's Trailblazing Work
Edited by Trevor Burnard, Andrew J. O’Shaughnessy, and Laura R. Sandy

The Papers of Robert Treat Paine
Volume 5
1787-1814
Robert Treat Paine. Edited by Edward W. Hanson

A Sea of Possibilities
The Revolutionary Atlantic World of Captain Thomas Allen
Kenneth J. Banks

Vignettes of Revolutionary Virginia
Remarkable Stories from the Founding of the Nation
Brent Tarter

Where Love Leads
Leadership and the Liberal Arts
Mary Dana Hinton. Afterword by Eboo Patel

Reckoning with Race in New Worlds
Ruth Hill

Scholarly Editing: Volume 43
Edited by Noelle A. Baker

Ecologies of Resistance
Arts, Activism, and Transdisciplinary Futures in Latin America and the Latinx Worlds
Edited by Ilka Kressner, Ana María Mutis, and Elizabeth M. Pettinaroli

The Mind of a Patriot
Patrick Henry and the World of Ideas
Kevin J. Hayes

To Save Us All from Slavery's Power
Republican Alarms, Southern Terrors, and the Plunge into Civil War
Mark Wahlgren Summers

Redeemer, Reformer, Rebel
The Progressive Era Activism of Dr. Kate Waller Barrett
Kathleen Waters Sander

Recollections
The French Revolution of 1848 and Its Aftermath
Alexis de Tocqueville. Edited by Olivier Zunz. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer

The Bodhisattva’s Body in a Pill
The Material and Spiritual History of a Buddhist Relic Tradition
James Duncan Gentry

Animal Minds, Other Minds
Nonhuman Intelligence and Narrative Form in American Fiction
Victoria Googasian

Parlor Politics
In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government
Catherine Allgor

Perceived in Print
Indigenous American and French Ideas of the Other
Sharon V. Salinger

Shifting Solidarities
The South African Anti-Apartheid Movement's Perceptions of Zionism
Asher Lubotzky

The Papers of Benjamin Franklin : Digital Edition
Benjamin Franklin. Edited by Ellen R. Cohn et al.

In the True Blue's Wake
Slavery and Freedom among the Families of Smithfield Plantation
Daniel B. Thorp

Suffering for the Crown
The Hudson Valley Loyalists and the Violence of Revolution
Kieran J. O'Keefe

The Witch in the Western Imagination
Lyndal Roper
The Great Experiment: Redebating the Electoral College in Virtual Reality
Edited by Warren R. Hofstra, Mohammad F. Obeid, and Kevin R. Hardwick
The Great Experiment: Redebating the Electoral College in Virtual Reality
Edited by Warren R. Hofstra, Mohammad F. Obeid, and Kevin R. Hardwick

Becoming Stendhal
The Performance of Authenticity and the Making of a Novelist
Hadley Suter

Bale After Bale
How Cotton Defined the Twentieth-Century South
Edited by David A. Davis

Writing the Noncolonial Self
Modern African Literatures and the Politics of Subjectivity
Alexander Fyfe

Virginia's Forgotten Founder
The World of Robert Carter Nicholas
Brent Tarter

Freedom in the Age of Slavery
A History of Free People of Color in Virginia
Warren Eugene Milteer Jr.

Under the Guise of Protection
Eugenics and Wayward Girls in Twentieth-Century Virginia
Erin N. Bush

Thomas Jefferson's Flowers
Historic Gardens at Monticello
Peggy Cornett, with G. S. Wilson, contributing editor

Constructing American Childhood
Age-Based Laws and the Illusion of Protection in the Early United States
Holly N. S. White

Vanished Water
Imperialism, Capital, and Rural Ecologies in Late-Colonial Kenya
James D. Parker

Integration at Second Base
Jackie Robinson and the Quest for Black Citizenship
Peter Eisenstadt

The Early Tibetan Practice of Buddhist Philosophy
Metaphysics, Argumentation, and Identity in Rongzom's Dzokchen
Dominic Di Zinno Sur

The American Revolution at 250
Twenty-Four Historians Reflect on the Founding
Edited by Francis D. Cogliano

Out of Virginia
Black Americans' Search for Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Liberia
Joseph P. Stinnett

Water Logics
Materialist Epistemologies for the Environmental Humanities
Edited by yasser elhariry and Edwige Tamalet Talbayev

The American Revolution on Trial
A New Nation Confronts the Burden of Independence
T. H. Breen

Peak Experiences
Walking Meditations on Literature, Nature, and Need
Ian Marshall

Of Courtiers and Kings
More Stories of Supreme Court Law Clerks and Their Justices
Edited by Todd C. Peppers and Clare Cushman

The Work of the Heart
Young Women and Emotion, 1780–1830
Martha Tomhave Blauvelt
The Papers of George Washington
Revolutionary War Series, Volume 36
10 March–23 May 1782
George Washington. Edited by Washington Papers Editors
The Papers of George Washington
Revolutionary War Series, Volume 36
10 March–23 May 1782
George Washington. Edited by Washington Papers Editors

The Global Age of Revolutions
A History from 1650 to Today
Edited by Bryan A. Banks and Cindy Ermus

Reconstructing the Campus
Higher Education and the American Civil War
Michael David Cohen

The Burial and Other Short Prose, 1963-1994
Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine, translated by Conor Bracken

The Buried Cause
Unearthing Hidden History in the Lee Monument Cornerstone
Edited by Katherine Ridgway, Christina Keyser Vida, and Elizabeth Moore

Irish Ecomedia
Empire and Environmental Justice in the Modernization of Postcolonial Ireland
Katherine M. Huber

The Law School at the University of Virginia
Architectural Expansion in the Realm of Thomas Jefferson
Philip Mills Herrington

Becoming Zimbabwean
A History of Indians in Rhodesia
Trishula Rachna Patel

Revolutionary Negotiations
Indians, Empires, and Diplomats in the Founding of America
Leonard J. Sadosky

In and Out of the West
Reconstructing Anthropology
Maurice Godelier. Translated by Nora Scott

Legal Education at the University of Virginia
Tradition and Transformation
Edited by Meggan F. Cashwell, Randall N. Flaherty, and Loren S. Moulds

In Flaming Letters
Lucia Pitts, Poet of the Six Triple Eight
Edited by Verner D. Mitchell and Cynthia Davis

Creating an Informed Citizenry
Knowledge and Democracy in the Early American Republic
George D. Oberle III

Poetic Drive
American Poetry in the Age of Automobility
Joel Duncan

The Gendered Republic
Reimagining Identity in the New Nation
Edited by Craig Thompson Friend and Lorri Glover

What We Mourn
Child Death and the Politics of Grief in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Lydia Murdoch

Fiske and Marie Kimball
Shaping Public Engagement with Architecture and the Arts
Edited by Marie Frank

The Tory’s Wife
A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America
Cynthia A. Kierner

Barbary Entanglements
Realizing American Independence on the World Stage
John M. Chamberlin

The Course of Human Events
The Declaration of Independence and the Historical Origins of the United States
Steven Sarson

Creative Regionalism
Renewing the Aesthetic Experience of Landscape in Environmental Design and Planning
David DuMez Hopman. Foreword by Frederick R. Steiner

Best New Poets 2025
Edited by Cecily Parks. Series Editor Jeb Livingood

Words Colliding
The Debate over Slavery and Black Exclusion in Nineteenth-Century America
Andrew F. Hammann

The Star-Spangled Republic
Political Astronomy and the Rise of the American Constellation
Eran Shalev

Lewis Carroll and "Alice" on Stage
The Savile Clarke Letters
Edited by Clare Imholtz

Nuremberg's Citizen Prosecutor
Benjamin Ferencz and the Birth of International Justice
Gregory S. Gordon

Seeking the High Ground
Slavery and Political Conflict in the British Atlantic World
Matthew Mason

Grievous Entanglement
Consumption, Connection, and Slavery in the Atlantic World
Erin Pearson

Maxims and the Mind
Unknowing in the Early Novel from Bacon to Austen
Kelly Swartz

Vignettes of Colonial Virginia
Remarkable Stories from the Founding of America
Brent Tarter

The Dean Disordered
Jonathan Swift and Humoral Medicine
Paul William Child

Captive State
Louisiana and the Making of Mass Incarceration
Eric Seiferth

Hiking the AT in the Virginias
A Septuagenarian's Journey
Dave Pruett. Foreword by Mills Kelly

Napoleon in America
Bonaparte and the Rhetoric of US Empire
Mark F. Ehlers

Unleashing Black Power
Grassroots Organizing in Harlem and the Advent of the Long, Hot Summers
Peter D. Blackmer

Devout and Defiant
How Pilgrims Shaped the Franco-German Borderlands in the Age of Revolutions
Kilian Harrer

Design Before Disaster
Japan's Culture of Preparedness
Miho Mazereeuw

George Washington
His Quest for Honor and Fame
Peter R. Henriques
Coming Soon

Music and Urban Life in Baroque Germany
Tanya Kevorkian

Bunny Matthews
His Life, Art, and Obsessions
Alison Fensterstock and Michael Tisserand

The Vanishing Schools of Franklin County
A History of Public Education in Rural Virginia
William B. Gibson and Abraham H. Gibson

Reconcilable Differences
The Unlikely Political Alliance of John F. Kennedy and Eleanor Roosevelt
Barbara A. Perry

Echoes of a Distant Republic
Italian Perspectives on the American and French Revolutions
Anna Vincenzi

The District’s Departed
A Guidebook to DC Cemeteries
Kim Roberts Meikle

Wharfed Out
Gentrification and Resistance on the Early American Waterfront
Kathryn K. Lasdow

The Papers of John Hancock
Volume 1
1754-1769

The Island of Bound Masters
Slavery and Construction Labor in Mauritius
Dwight Carey

Prizefighter
Yankee Sullivan and the Hands That Built the Modern World
Patrick Griffin

George Mason and the Tenth Amendment
John C. Rand

Making Rounds
Love, Loss, and Lessons Learned from an Indomitable Woman in Medicine
Sharon L. Hostler, MD
Confluence
Rivers and Streams in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
Scott Jost
Confluence
Rivers and Streams in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
Scott Jost

Forces of Creolization
Glissant and a Decolonial Feminist Aperture
Ruthanne Soohee Kim

Learning Through George Washington
A Guide for Educators, Students, and Citizens
Edited by Kate Elizabeth Brown and Lorri Glover

Willful Listeners
Reading Aloud and the Politics of Attention from Austen to Audiobooks
Kate Nesbit

Strange Hybrids
Science Fiction, Literary Fiction, and the Contemporary Novel
Marc Singer

Lincoln’s March
The Daring Journey to a Fallen Richmond
Tom Shoop

Perpetual Foreigners
Stigma, Citizenship, and Anti-Haitianism in The Bahamas
Charmane M. Perry
The Writings of Daniel Gookin and Allied Documents
Edited by Adrian Chastain Weimer and David D. Hall
The Writings of Daniel Gookin and Allied Documents
Edited by Adrian Chastain Weimer and David D. Hall

James Madison's World
Society and Culture in Central Virginia, 1714 to 1900
John T. Schlotterbeck

A Great Revolution in Church and State
Religion, Government, and Property in the Chesapeake, 1700–1830
Alyssa Penick
The Papers of James Madison
Retirement Series, Volume 5
1 March 1828–28 February 1830
James Madison
The Papers of James Madison
Retirement Series, Volume 5
1 March 1828–28 February 1830
James Madison
The Papers of George Washington
Revolutionary War Series, Volume 37
24 May–20 August 1782
George Washington. Edited by Washington Papers Editors
The Papers of George Washington
Revolutionary War Series, Volume 37
24 May–20 August 1782
George Washington. Edited by Washington Papers Editors

Christ, Church, and Country
Home Missions and the Religious Reconstruction of the United States After the Civil War
Gwion Wyn Jones

Against All Odds
Spain and the Global Struggle for US Independence
Edited by Gonzalo M. Quintero Saravia

Washed-Out Memory
Nathacha Appanah, translated by Katherine Gregor

Shadows of Events
British Aestheticism and Nineteenth-Century Politics
Matthew Potolsky

Gardens and Parks of Historic House Museums
Grounds for Authenticity, Sustainability, and Reconciliation
Edited by Denise Maior-Barron and Edward R. Bosley
I, Too, Am Norfolk
A History of African Americans in Norfolk, Virginia
Tommy L. Bogger, Michael Hucles, and Cassandra Newby-Alexander, with Joe Jackson
I, Too, Am Norfolk
A History of African Americans in Norfolk, Virginia
Tommy L. Bogger, Michael Hucles, and Cassandra Newby-Alexander, with Joe Jackson

Jefferson in Love
The Love Letters Between Thomas Jefferson and Maria Cosway
Edited by John P. Kaminski

Making the American Presidency
How Biographers Shape History
Carl Rollyson

Killjoy Comedy
Willful Women and Humor in 1750s Fiction
Rebecca Anne Barr
Sankofa
Reflections on Life, Learning, and Social Justice
Johnnetta Betsch Cole
Sankofa
Reflections on Life, Learning, and Social Justice
Johnnetta Betsch Cole

Reimagining the Buddha
Mass Production and Popular Devotion in Sri Lankan Buddhism
Soorakkulame Pemaratana
America’s Achilles Heel
Inequity in Education as a Threat to Democracy
Ronald A. Crutcher
America’s Achilles Heel
Inequity in Education as a Threat to Democracy
Ronald A. Crutcher
The Prophetic and Mystical Understanding of God
David Tracy
The Prophetic and Mystical Understanding of God
David Tracy

Reparative Histories
Local Democracy and the Power of Place in the American Landscape
Edited by Louis P. Nelson and Angel A. Parham, with Shaheen Alikhan and Katie F. Wu
The Barbary States of America
The Barbary Wars and Racial Politics in the Early Republic
Matthew Goetz
The Barbary States of America
The Barbary Wars and Racial Politics in the Early Republic
Matthew Goetz
Forging the Executive Power
The Creation of the American Presidency, 1775-1789
Gary J. Schmitt and Joseph M. Bessette
Forging the Executive Power
The Creation of the American Presidency, 1775-1789
Gary J. Schmitt and Joseph M. Bessette
Elizabeth Willing Powel
A Remarkable Woman at the Heart of the American Founding
Samantha Snyder
Elizabeth Willing Powel
A Remarkable Woman at the Heart of the American Founding
Samantha Snyder

Elsewhere in the City
The Urban Poetics of Caribbean Women’s Migration
Dawn Fulton
Forged from the Farewell Address
The Washington Doctrine and the Forgotten Foundation of US Foreign Policy, 1796–1946
Daniel J. Burge
Forged from the Farewell Address
The Washington Doctrine and the Forgotten Foundation of US Foreign Policy, 1796–1946
Daniel J. Burge
Shaping Up
Women, Physical Fitness, and American Society
Amanda E. Regan
Shaping Up
Women, Physical Fitness, and American Society
Amanda E. Regan
Survivor Nation
The Long Struggle for Healing and Reforms in the Wake of Virginia Tech
Thomas P. Kapsidelis
Survivor Nation
The Long Struggle for Healing and Reforms in the Wake of Virginia Tech
Thomas P. Kapsidelis
Regionalism and Utopia
The Speculative Radicalism of Local Color in the Long Gilded Age
Andy Harper
Regionalism and Utopia
The Speculative Radicalism of Local Color in the Long Gilded Age
Andy Harper

Stories in the Soil
Recovering Black and White Histories at James Madison's Montpelier
Lisa Goff
Vignettes of Antebellum Virginia
Remarkable Stories from the New American Republic
Brent Tarter
Vignettes of Antebellum Virginia
Remarkable Stories from the New American Republic
Brent Tarter
Transcendentalism and American Architecture
William Henry Furness, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frank Furness, and Louis Sullivan
Jamie Devol
Transcendentalism and American Architecture
William Henry Furness, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frank Furness, and Louis Sullivan
Jamie Devol

Love Killed Off by Too Much Sun
Mongo Beti, translated by Cheryl Toman
The Patriot Atlantic
How the Americans, Dutch, and Irish Forged the Age of Revolution
Matthijs Tieleman
The Patriot Atlantic
How the Americans, Dutch, and Irish Forged the Age of Revolution
Matthijs Tieleman
Inside the East Wing
The Office of the First Lady from Kennedy to Carter
Elizabeth M. Rees
Inside the East Wing
The Office of the First Lady from Kennedy to Carter
Elizabeth M. Rees
Insurrection
Violence and Vigilantism in Gold Rush San Francisco
Donald T. Critchlow
Insurrection
Violence and Vigilantism in Gold Rush San Francisco
Donald T. Critchlow
Inevitable Satirists
South African Humor During the Union Period
Robin K. Crigler
Inevitable Satirists
South African Humor During the Union Period
Robin K. Crigler
For Immediate Review
The Emergency Docket and the US Supreme Court
Taraleigh Davis
For Immediate Review
The Emergency Docket and the US Supreme Court
Taraleigh Davis
The Cyclone of Rye Cove
An Appalachian Tragedy
Amy D. Clark. Foreword by Ted Olson
The Cyclone of Rye Cove
An Appalachian Tragedy
Amy D. Clark. Foreword by Ted Olson
Uniting Interests
Love, Law, and Money in Early American Marriages
Lindsay Mitchell Keiter
Uniting Interests
Love, Law, and Money in Early American Marriages
Lindsay Mitchell Keiter