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Bitter Fruits of Bondage
The Demise of Slavery and the Collapse of the Confederacy, 1861–1865
Robinson, Armstead L.Bitter Fruits of Bondage is the late Armstead L. Robinson’s magnum opus, a controversial history that explodes orthodoxies on both sides of the historical debate over why the...
Lucy Stone
Pioneer of Woman's Rights
Blackwell, Alice StoneAlice Stone Blackwell, editor of the Woman's Journal, published this biography of her mother, Lucy Stone, in 1930, a decade after the ratification of the Nineteenth...
Yuletide in Dixie
Slavery, Christmas, and Southern Memory
May, Robert E.How did enslaved African Americans in the Old South really experience Christmas? Did Christmastime provide slaves with a lengthy and jubilant respite from labor and the whip,...
Governing the Commonwealth
Dudley, Robert Governing the Commonwealth provides middle-school students with an introduction to Virginia’s government: its structure, processes, powers, and scope. The middle-school...
George Washington
First in War
Palmer, Dave R.George Washington’s long career as soldier began with defeat as a young line officer in the bloody frontier skirmishes of the French and Indian War; it culminated in the role...
The Madisons at Montpelier
Reflections on the Founding Couple
Ketcham, RalphRestored to its original splendor, Montpelier is now a national shrine, but before Montpelier became a place of study and tribute, it was a home. Often kept from it by the...
The Papers of George Washington
1748-August 1755
Washington, George, Abbot, W. W.The ten-volume Colonial Series, covering the years 1748-1775, takes the young Washington through his command of the Virginia Regiment during the French and Indian War and then...
What Time and Sadness Spared
Mother and Son Confront the Holocaust
Ben-Atar, Roma NutkiewiczRoma Ben-Atar resisted until late in life the urging of her family to share the memories of her Nazi-era experiences. The Holocaust exerted a dark pressure on all of their...
Creating Constitutional Change
Clashes over Power and Liberty in the Supreme Court
Ivers, Gregg, McGuire, Kevin T.Because the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court tell us what the Constitution means, they can create constitutional change. For quite some time, general readers who have been...
Entrepreneurs
The Boston Business Community, 1700–1850
Wright, Conrad Edick, Viens, Katheryn P.This volume broadens the scope of Boston business history by including essays on subjects such as 18th-century women shopkeepers and African American businessmen in the...
The Lawn
A Guide to Jefferson's University
Hogan, Pendleton"This extremely informative guide should prove useful even to those well acquainted with the University of Virginia campus. Other visitors to Charlottesville can rely upon it...
Republican Populist
Spiro Agnew and the Origins of Donald Trump’s America
Holden, Charles J., Messitte, Zach, Podair, JeraldTypically a maligned figure in American political history, former vice president Spiro T. Agnew is often overlooked. Although he is largely remembered for his alliterative...
Jefferson the Virginian
Malone, DumasDumas Malone’s classic six-volume biography Jefferson and His Time was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in history and became the standard work on Jefferson’s life. ...
Black, White, and Olive Drab
Racial Integration at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, and the Civil Rights Movement
Myers, Andrew H.One of the first Army bases to implement on a large scale President Truman’s call for racial integration of the armed forces, Fort Jackson, South Carolina, quickly took its...
Distant Revolutions
1848 and the Challenge to American Exceptionalism
Roberts, Timothy Mason Distant Revolutions: 1848 and the Challenge to American Exceptionalism is a study of American politics, culture, and foreign relations in the mid-nineteenth century,...
Religion and the Making of Nat Turner's Virginia
Baptist Community and Conflict, 1740-1840
Scully, Randolph Ferguson Religion and the Making of Nat Turner's Virginia provides a new interpretation of the rise of evangelical Christianity in the early American South by reconstructing the...
New Communitarian Thinking
Persons, Virtues, Institutions, and Communities
Etzioni, AmitaiCommunitarian thought is at the heart of a fierce debate in political theory about the justice, efficacy, and future of liberalism and liberal societies. Amitai Etzioni has...
Voters' Verdicts
Citizens, Campaigns, and Institutions in State Supreme Court Elections
Bonneau, Chris W., Cann, Damon M.In Voters’ Verdicts, Chris Bonneau and Damon Cann address contemporary concerns with judicial elections by investigating factors that influence voters’ decisions in the...
Rival Visions
How Jefferson and His Contemporaries Defined the Early American Republic
Gish, Dustin, Bibby, AndrewThe emergence of the early American republic as a new nation on the world stage conjured rival visions in the eyes of leading statesmen at home and attentive observers abroad....
The Papers of James Madison
1 May 1816-3 March 1817, with a supplement, 1809-1815
Madison, James, Stagg, J. C. A., Johnson, Mary Parke, Harbury, Katharine E., Colony, Anne MandevilleThe final volume of the Presidential Series covers Madison’s last ten months in office, during which he maintained a busy schedule despite taking the longest summer vacation in...
Practicing Democracy
Popular Politics in the United States from the Constitution to the Civil War
Peart, Daniel, Smith, Adam I. P.In Practicing Democracy, eleven historians challenge conventional narratives of democratization in the early United States, offering new perspectives on the period...
Spanish New Orleans and the Caribbean / La Nueva Orleans y la Caribe españoles
Lemmon, Alfred E.New Orleans thrived under Spanish rule (1762–1803), linked through trade and empire to the nerve centers of the circum-Caribbean. This book explores the far-reaching ways in...
No Ordinary College
A History of The University of Virginia's College at Wise
Wills, Brian Steel"You are making history today," the University of Virginia Extension Division agent Samuel Crockett observed to a gathering of students and faculty on September 15, 1954, in...
Lincoln's Dilemma
Blair, Sumner, and the Republican Struggle over Racism and Equality in the Civil War Era
Escott, Paul D.The Civil War forced America finally to confront the contradiction between its founding values and human slavery. At the center of this historic confrontation was Abraham...
Jefferson and the Ordeal of Liberty
Malone, DumasDumas Malone’s classic six-volume biography Jefferson and His Time was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in history and became the standard work on Jefferson’s life. ...