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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

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

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

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

After the Fire
Richmond in Defeat
Nelson D. Lankford

The Literatures of Spanish America and Brazil
Volume 2
The Twentieth Century
Earl E. Fitz

Trusted Source
How a Virginia Nonprofit Gained Bipartisan Support in an Era of Political Polarization
David M. Poole

Slavery's Medicine
Illness and Labor in the British Plantation Caribbean
Claire E. Gherini

A Natural History of Quiet Waters
Swamps and Wetlands of the Mid-Atlantic Coast
Curtis J. Badger

Virginia's Wild Side
50 Outdoor Adventures from the Mountains to the Ocean
Curtis J. Badger

Ultimate Questions
A Stakeholder Guide to the Business of Your Life
Andrew C. Wicks. With Alexander S. Bleiberg and John K. Nolan

The Evolution of a Rural Free Black Community
Goochland County, Virginia, 1728-1832
Reginald D. Butler. Edited by Peter S. Onuf

Seeking Justice
The Extraordinary Freedom Suits of an Enslaved Virginia Family
Daniel B. Thorp
The Papers of George Washington
Revolutionary War Series, Volume 35
21 November 1781–9 March 1782
George Washington. Edited by Washington Papers Editors
The Papers of George Washington
Revolutionary War Series, Volume 35
21 November 1781–9 March 1782
George Washington. Edited by Washington Papers Editors

The Making of Modern Cynicism
David Mazella

The Belgian Friendship Building
From the New York World's Fair to a Virginia HBCU
Kathleen James-Chakraborty, Katherine M. Kuenzli, and Bryan Clark Green

Biography of a Tenement House in New York City
An Architectural History of 97 Orchard Street
Andrew S. Dolkart

The Row House in Washington, DC
A History
Alison K. Hoagland

Genre Theory and Historical Change
Theoretical Essays of Ralph Cohen
Ralph Cohen. Edited by John L. Rowlett

Purge and Bleed
Philadelphia’s Yellow Fever Epidemic and the Stagnation of American Medicine
Marshall Foletta

Architectures of Slavery
Ruins and Reconstructions
Edited by Nathaniel Robert Walker and Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann

Bedazzled Saints
Catacomb Relics in Early Modern Bavaria
Noria K. Litaker

Confessing the Flesh
Reading Hopkins in Context
Lesley Higgins

Histories of Science
Natural Philosophy in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Edited by David Alff and Danielle Spratt
The Papers of James Madison
Secretary of State Series, Volume 14
1 April 1807-30 September 1807
James Madison
The Papers of James Madison
Secretary of State Series, Volume 14
1 April 1807-30 September 1807
James Madison

The Elections of 2024
Edited by Michael Nelson

No Exit
Contemporary American Literature and the State
Seth McKelvey

Scholarly Editing: Volume 42
Edited by Noelle A. Baker

Queer Virginia
New Stories in the Old Dominion
Edited by Charles H. Ford and Jeffrey L. Littlejohn

Citizens of Convenience
The Imperial Origins of American Nationhood on the U.S.-Canadian Border
Lawrence Hatter

Lafayette
Lessons in Leadership from the Idealist General
Marc Leepson

Archival Communities
Constructing the Past in the Early United States
Derek Kane O'Leary

Before Manifest Destiny
The Contested Expansion of the Early United States
Nicholas G. DiPucchio

Girls + Eggs
Contemporary Art Against Reproductive Injustice
Siona Wilson

Mapping the Constitution
The Cartographic History of the Ratification of the Constitution
Compiled by John Kaminski, Timothy D. Moore, Sarah K. Danforth, Thomas H. Linley

A Soldier's Life
A Black Woman's Rise from Army Brat to Six Triple Eight Champion
Edna W. Cummings

Students to Soldiers
Secret Military Education at Elite Schools, 1815–1945
John F. Morris

Landscape Fieldwork
How Engaging the World Can Change Design
Gareth Doherty

The Importance of Being Different
Disability in Oscar Wilde's Fairy Tales
Chris Foss

Spectacle Earth
Media for Planetary Change
Andrew Kalaidjian

Studies in Bibliography
Volume 61
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia
Edited by David L. Vander Meulen

From Dakota to Dixie
George Buswell's Civil War
George W. Buswell, edited by Jonathan W. White and Reagan Connelly. Foreword by Gary W. Gallagher

How College Presidents Succeed
Lessons in Leadership from Three Generations of Reveleys
Michael Nelson. Foreword by Robert M. Gates, afterword by James A. Baker III

From Morning to Night
Domestic Service in Maymont House and the Gilded Age South
Elizabeth O'Leary

Freedom Has a Face
Race, Identity, and Community in Jefferson's Virginia
Kirt von Daacke

Those Who Stayed
A Vietnam Diary
Claudia Krich

Victorian Nightshades
How the Solanaceae Shaped the Modern World
Elizabeth A. Campbell

The Road to Black Ned's Forge
A Story of Race, Sex, and Trade on the Colonial American Frontier
Turk McCleskey

Edgar Allan Poe
A Life
Richard Kopley

Here to Stay
The Story of the Class of Women Who Coeducated the University of Virginia
Gail Burrell Gerry

Buildings of Missouri
Osmund Overby, Carol Grove, and Cole Woodcox

Call Me Larry
A Creole Man's Triumph over Racism and Homophobia
Larry Bagneris, with Ryan Gomez

Philosophy as Poetry
Richard Rorty. Introduction by Michael Bérubé

For the People, For the Country
Patrick Henry’s Final Political Battle
John A. Ragosta

Saving the Chesapeake
The History of a Movement
Andrew S. Ramey
Nekisha Durrett, True Grit
Edited by Beth Hinderliter and Zandria F. Robinson
Nekisha Durrett, True Grit
Edited by Beth Hinderliter and Zandria F. Robinson
Coming Soon

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

The Global Age of Revolutions
A History from 1650 to Today
Edited by Bryan A. Banks and Cindy Ermus
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 Work of the Heart
Young Women and Emotion, 1780–1830
Martha Tomhave Blauvelt

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Witch in the Western Imagination
Lyndal Roper

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

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

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

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

Reckoning with Race in New Worlds
Ruth Hill

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

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

To Save Us All from Slavery's Power
Republican Alarms, Southern Terrors, and the Plunge into Civil War
Mark Wahlgren Summers
Vignettes of Revolutionary Virginia
Remarkable Stories from the Founding of the Nation
Brent Tarter
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
Where Love Leads
Leadership and the Liberal Arts
Mary Dana Hinton. Afterword by Eboo Patel
"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
"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
Forces of Creolization
Glissant and a Decolonial Feminist Aperture
Ruthanne Soohee Kim
Forces of Creolization
Glissant and a Decolonial Feminist Aperture
Ruthanne Soohee Kim
The Vanishing Schools of Franklin County
A History of Public Education in Rural Virginia
William B. Gibson and Abraham H. Gibson
The Vanishing Schools of Franklin County
A History of Public Education in Rural Virginia
William B. Gibson and Abraham H. Gibson
The District’s Departed
A Guidebook to DC Cemeteries
Kim Roberts Meikle
The District’s Departed
A Guidebook to DC Cemeteries
Kim Roberts Meikle
The Island of Bound Masters
Slavery and Construction Labor in Mauritius
Dwight Carey
The Island of Bound Masters
Slavery and Construction Labor in Mauritius
Dwight Carey
Gardens and Parks of Historic House Museums
Grounds for Authenticity, Sustainability, and Reconciliation
Edited by Denise Maior-Barron and Edward R. Bosley
Gardens and Parks of Historic House Museums
Grounds for Authenticity, Sustainability, and Reconciliation
Edited by Denise Maior-Barron and Edward R. Bosley
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