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Snakes of Virginia
Linzey, Donald W., Clifford, MichaelThe classic field guide to snakes found in the Old Dominion, now available in paperback.
Oh, Shenandoah
Paintings of the Historic Valley and River
Kushnir, AndreiThe Shenandoah Valley is widely renowned for its beauty and its idyllic landscape of farms, fields, historic towns, and Civil War battlefields. Framed to the east and west by...
The Science of Fly-Fishing
Ulanski, StanleyThe foundations of fly-fishing history, literature, and mechanics are firmly anchored in the disciplines of science, yet until now there has been no comprehensive work that...
Bound Away
Virginia and the Westward Movement
Fischer, David Hackett, Kelly, James C.Bound Away offers a new understanding of the westward movement. After the Turner thesis which celebrated the frontier as the source of American freedom and democracy, and the...
The University of Virginia
A Pictorial History
Hitchcock, Susan TylerIn the nearly two centuries since the first building’s completion in Thomas Jefferson’s academical village, programs and facilities at the University of Virginia have been...
The Fight for Fairfax
Private Citizens and Public Policymaking
Banham, RussThe Fight for Fairfax, first published in 2009, presents the story of a group of local citizens in Fairfax County, Virginia, and their efforts over half a century to invent a...
Norfolk
The First Four Centuries
Parramore, Thomas C.The first comprehensive history of Norfolk to appear since 1930, Norfolk: The First Four Centuries tells the story of America's largest maritime port from the first contact...
Hidden History
African American Cemeteries in Central Virginia
Rainville, LynnIn Hidden History, Lynn Rainville travels through the forgotten African American cemeteries of central Virginia to recover information crucial to the stories of the...
OpenGrounds at the University of Virginia
Link, Learn, Lead, Live
Sherman, William, Hepler, LindseyOpenGrounds is a University of Virginia initiative that builds on a legacy of innovation to create new programs, places, and partnerships; to catalyze new approaches to...
Old Southampton
Politics and Society in a Virginia County, 1834-1869
Crofts, Daniel W.Nat Turner's 1831 slave insurrection made Virginia's Southampton County notorious. Gradually, however, the bloody spectacle receded from national memory. Although the...
Guide to the Geology and Natural History of the Blue Ridge Mountains
Spencer, Edgar W.As you travel along the Blue Ridge Parkway, hike the Appalachian Trail, or visit the national and state parks scattered throughout the Blue Ridge Mountains, you will encounter...
Once There Was a Farm
A Country Childhood Remembered
Dabney, Virginia BellNearly fifty years after she left the family farm of her childhood, Virginia Bell Dabney was compelled to write a memoir. She and her two sisters were raised on a Virginia farm...