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The Road to Black Ned's Forge
In 1752 an enslaved Pennsylvania ironworker named Ned purchased his freedom and moved to Virginia on the upper James River. Taking the name Edward Tarr, he became the first free …
The Permanent Resident
No figure in American history has generated more public interest or sustained more scholarly research around his various homes and habitations than has George Washington. The …
Early Modern Virginia
This collection of essays on seventeenth-century Virginia, the first such collection on the Chesapeake in nearly twenty-five years, highlights emerging directions in scholarship …
To Organize the Sovereign People
This book explores the struggle to define self-government in the critical years following the Declaration of Independence, when Americans throughout the country looked to the …
Washington's Government
Washington's Government shows how George Washington's administration the subject of remarkably little previous study was both more dynamic and more uncertain than previously …
Loyal Protestants and Dangerous Papists
Loyal Protestants and Dangerous Papists analyzes the vibrant and often violent political culture of seventeenth-century America, exploring the relationship between early American …
Redemption from Tyranny
For many common people, the American Revolution offered an opportunity to radically reimagine the wealth and power structures in the nascent United States. Yet in the eyes of …
From Independence to the U.S. Constitution
The "Critical Period" of American history—the years between the end of the American Revolution in 1783 and the ratification of the U.S. Constitution in 1789—was either the best of …
Dunmore's New World
Dunmore's New World tells the stranger-than-fiction story of Lord Dunmore, the last royal governor of Virginia, whose long-neglected life boasts a measure of scandal and intrigue …
Settler Jamacia in the 1750s
By the mid-eighteenth century, observers of the emerging overseas British Empire thought that Jamaica—in addition to being the largest British colony in the West Indies—was the …