Virginia

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The fourth book in the Virginia at War series casts a special light on vital home front matters in Virginia during 1864. Following a year in which only one major battle was fought …

The great Tidewater planters of mid-eighteenth-century Virginia were fathers of the American Revolution. Perhaps first and foremost, they were also anxious tobacco farmers, harried …

In January 1861, Virginia possessed the largest population of enslaved people within the United States. The institution of slavery permeated the state's social, political, …

Through analysis of in-depth interviews with seventy-three Hispanic immigrants in Central Virginia, this book offers a rare in-depth look at the views and circumstances of …

In southern graveyards through the first decades of the twentieth century, the Confederate South was commemorated by tombstones and memorials, in Confederate flags, and in Memorial …

Discover the Best Waterfalls in North Carolina and Virginia Waterfalls are nature’s most captivating wonders. These hidden spectacles seem to hold all the secrets of the forest. …

Theres no such thing as the middle of nowhere. Everywhere is the middle of somewhere for some living being. That was Suzanne Stryks mantra as she journeyed through her home state …

In 1663, an indentured servant, Anne Orthwood, was impregnated with twins in a tavern in Northampton County, Virginia. Orthwood died soon after giving birth; one of the twins, …

The cultural memory of plantations in the Old South has long been clouded by myth. A recent reckoning with the centrality of slavery to the US national story, however, has shifted …