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The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
Journal providing essays and book reviews related to the history of Virginia.
Articles from Vol. 105, No. 4, Autumn
"But My Friends Are Poor": Ross Hamilton and Freedpeople's Politics in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, 1869-1901
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by HAROLD S. FORSYTHE* THROUGH the medium of this single letter on a personal subject, from among some forty that Ross Hamilton sent Republican party leader William Mahone, we can glimpse Hamilton as freedpeople in the Southside would have known him....
Conserving the Youth: The Civilian Conservation Corps Experience in the Shenandoah National Park
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The Civilian Conservation Corps Experience in the Shenandoah National Park by PATRICK CLANCY* WHEN Franklin D. Roosevelt became president in March 1933, millions were out of work, breadlines and soup kitchens spread across urban America, and people everywhere...
Dan Daniel and the Persistence of Conservatism in Virginia
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Dan Daniel and the Persistence of Conservatism in Virginia. By JACK IRBY HAYES, JR. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1997. xi, 258 pp. $35.00. JACK I. HAYES, JR., professor of history and political science at Averett College, has composed the first...
Flawed Judgement: The Court-Martial of Commodore James Barron
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by K. MICHAEL LATSHAW* ON the morning of 4 January 1808, a general court-martial to hear charges preferred against Commodore James Barron convened on board the United States frigate Chesapeake, riding in her berth at Norfolk, Virginia. The charges resulted...
Powhatan's World and Colonial Virginia: A Conflict of Cultures
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Powhatan's World and Colonial Virginia: A Conflict of Cultures. By FREDERIC W. GLEACH. Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press in cooperation with the American Indian Studies Research Institute,...
Shadows on My Heart: The Civil War Diary of Lucy Rebecca Buck of Virginia
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Shadows on My Heart: The Civil War Diary of Lucy Rebecca Buck of Virginia. Edited by ELIZABETH R. BAER. Southern Voices from the Past: Women's Letters, Diaries, and Writings. CAROL BLESER, General Editor. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press,...
Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War
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Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War. By MICHAEL A. MORRISON. Chapel Hill and London: University of Not Cera Press, 1997. m 396 pp. $49.95. THIS is an ambitious book that aims through the study...
Talk about Trouble: A New Deal Portrait of Virginians in the Great Depression
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Talk about Trouble: A New Deal Portrait of Virginians in the Great Depression. Edited by NANCY J. MARTIN-PERDUE and CHARLES L. PERDUE, JR. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. xxii, 493 pp. $45.00. WHEN a Virginia Writers'...
The Battles for Spotsylvania Court House and the Road to Yellow Tavern, May 7-12, 1864
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The Battles for Spotsylvania Court House and the Road to Yellow Tavern, May 7-12, 1864. By GORDON C. RHEA. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1997. xii, 483 pp. $34.95. WITH a steady focus that suggests U. S. Grant's drive from...
Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy
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Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings.' An American Controversy. By ANNETTE GORDoN-REED. Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1997. xv, 288 pp. $29.95. UNTIL recently, scholars and the public alike have been quick to dismiss rumors...
Two Months in the Confederate States: An Englishman's Travels through the South
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Two Months in the Confederate States: An Englishman's Travels through the South. By W. C. CORSAN. Edited by BENJAMIN H. TRASK. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1996. xx, 155 pp. $26.95. SCORES of Europeans and northerners traveled...
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
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Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West. BY STEPHEN E. AMBROSE. New York, London, and Toronto: Simon & Schuster, 1996. 511 pp. $27.95. EXPANSIONIST Virginia's reconnaissance of North America took...
