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Index to Volume 114 (2006)


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(Issue number 1: 1–224; 2: 225–320; 3: 321–432; 4: 433–545.)

(Page numbers in bold indicate illustrations.)

A
A. H. Robins, 195
abolitionism, 488
Accomack County Court, 443
Adams, Henry, 35, 71
Adams, Sean Patrick, Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America, 303–4
     review by, 300–1
advertising campaign (1991), 180
African slavery, 436, 448, 450
Along the Maysville Road: The Early American Republic in the Trans-Appalachian West, by Craig Thompson Friend, 508–9
American Association of Museums, 184
American Association of State and Local History, 132
American Frontier Culture Museum, 176
American Historical Association, 83, 91, 102
American military history, 294–95
American Revolution, 294–95, 405–6, 517–19
Anderson, Paul Christopher, review by, 514–15
Andrew, Rod, 227–28, 232, 240
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 185, 190
Appalachia, 415–16, 508–9, 514–15
architectural history, 295–97
arsenal guard, 229–30, 233–35, 241–42
arsenals, 228
Arthur (Indian), 451
Ashby, Thomas N., 266, 269, 273, 275–77, 280–84
Askins, Phillip, 265–66
Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, 90
Away! I'm Bound Away! Virginia and the Westward Movement, 176

B
Bacon, Nathaniel, 446
Bacon's Rebellion, 33, 62, 400–401, 446–47, 452
Baker, Gary R., 227
Bancroft, George, 71, 84
Barbados, 444
Barclay, Hugh, 231
Barker, Gordon S., review by, 504–6
Barksdale, Kevin T., review by, 294–95
Barney, Charles G., 48, 54–56, 60, 87
Barton, David, 275
Batson, Barbara C., and Tracy L. Kamerer, A Capital Collection: Virginia's Artistic Inheritance, 420–21
Battle Abbey, 1–2, 69, 89, 114, 116–24, 127–29, 130–31, 138–39, 145, 147, 149, 153–54, 159–61, 164, 167–68, 170–71, 192, 203, 206–7
     construction of, 117
     physical expansion of, 122–23, 134, 172, 181, 188–89, 193, 196, 200
Bearss, Sara B., 150
Bel Air (Front Royal), 225, 264–65, 271
Bemiss, FitzGerald, 158
Bemiss, Samuel Merrifield, 123, 127, 134–35
Ben (slave), 264
Benton, Thomas Hart, 325, 344
Bergen, William W., 513
Berkeley, William, 441, 442, 447, 452, 457
Berkey, Jonathan M., review by, 513–14
Bernstein, R. B., review by, 407–8
Best Products, 195
Beth Ahabah Museum and Archives, 176
Beutler, Keith, review by, 405–6
Bill of Rights, 503–4
Birch Creek (Halifax County), 469
Bissell and Sinkler (Philadelphia, Pa.), 117
Bitter Fruits of Bondage: The Demise of Slavery and the Collapse of the Confederacy, 1861–1865, by Armstead L. Robinson, 511–12
Blair, James, 449, 456–57
Blanchveil, Charles, 451
Blandford Cemetery, 516–17
Blandford Cemetery: Death and Life at Petersburg, Virginia, by John O. Peters, 516–17
Blanton, Wyndham Bolling, 124
Bohannon, Keith S., 513
Boswell, Angela and Judith N. McArthur, eds., Women Shaping the South: Creating and Confronting Change, 519–20
Bowman, Edward, 455
Boyd, Julian, 9, 123
Boyd, Mary, 479
Boyle, Robert, 456
Bradford, Richard, 454
Brady, Patricia, Martha Washington: An American Life, 501–3
A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia, 194
broadsides, 474
Brock, Robert Alonzo, 67, 71–76, 86–87, 90, 93, 130, 134, 137, 139
Brockenbrough, Austin, III, 189
Brooks, Clayton McClure, 520
Brown, John, 171
Brown, Joseph E., 255
Brownsville (Pa.), 268, 278
Bruce, Philip Alexander, 87, 90–93, 96, 99–101, 139
Brundage, W. Fitzhugh, The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory, 416–18
Bryan, Cammy, 167
Bryan, Charles F., Jr., 165–74, 177, 178, 183–89, 192–93, 196, 201, 203, 206–7
Bryan, David Tennant, 147
Bryan, John Stewart, 103, 105, 121
Bryan, Jonathan, 108
Bryan, Joseph, 87–88, 90, 92, 94, 101–2
     papers of, 195
Brydon, G. MacLaren, 127
Buck, Ruhannah McKim, 264–65, 265–67, 267, 270–71, 277, 285
     estate of, 266, 269, 272–73, 275–76, 280, 283, 285
     will of, 265–67
Buck, Thomas, 264
Buck, William Mason, 266, 271, 273–76, 280–82 Burr, 301–2, Aaron
Burrows, Bartholomew, 446
Byrd, William, I, 446, 452
Byrd, William II, 72, 99, 109, 125

C
Cabell, Henry Coalter, 74
Cabell, Joseph C., 30–31
Calendar of Virginia State Papers, 61
Calhoun, John C., 42, 53
Campbell, David, 245
canoe, 191
A Capital Collection: Virginia's Artistic Inheritance, by Barbara C. Batson and Tracy L. Kamerer, 420–21
Capitol (Richmond), 57, 60–61, 65
Capitol Square (Richmond), 252
"Captives and Slaves: Indian Labor, Cultural Conversion, and the Plantation Revolution in Virginia," by Owen Stanwood, 434–63
Cardelli, Peter, 63
carpetbag, 175
Carter, Robert, 63
Casdorph, Paul D., Confederate General R. S. Ewell: Robert E. Lee's Hesitant Commander, 306–7
Catawba Indians, 446
cemeteries, 516–17
Censer, Jane Turner, The Reconstruction of White Southern Womanhood, 1865–1895, 308–9
Chamberlayne, Thomas, 454–56
Chambers, Douglas B., Murder at Montpelier: Igbo Africans in Virginia, 403–5
Charles City County Court, 451
Charles H. Bentz Associates, 168
Charleston Courier (S.C.), 254
Charleston (S.C.) Arsenal, 250, 254
Cheek Gallery, 171
Chesterfield County
     agriculture in, 364
     industry in, 361
Child under Tree, Virginia, 204
Christian, Robert, 348–49
Christian, Stuart G., Jr., 168–69, 173
Christianity, 436
"Cives,", 231–32, 242–43, 245, 247, 254–55
civic virtue, 239, 242
Civil War, 53–59, 304–7, 412–13, 510–11, 513–15
     homefront, 410–11
"Civis,", 254
Claiborne, William, 443
Claiming the Pen: Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South, by Catherine Kerrison, 506–7
Clark, Lottie, 357, 360, 365, 368, 373, 377
Clay, Henry, 509
Coal industry, 303–4
Cole, Betsy, 144
Cole, Howson W., 128, 136, 161, 174
Collections of the Virginia Historical & Philosophical Society, 30
Collections of the Virginia Historical Society (series), 73, 92
College of William and Mary, 243, 326–27, 342, 347–48, 358, 456
Colman, Benjamin, 32
colonial America, 297–99
Colonial Dames, 89–90, 99
Columbia (S.C.) Arsenal, 250, 254
Commonwealth and Community: The Jewish Experience in Virginia, 176
Conestoga wagon, 175, 191
Confederate firearms, 120
Confederate General R. S. Ewell: Robert E. Lee's Hesitant Commander, by Paul D. Casdorph, 306–7
Confederate Memorial Association, 118–19
Confederate Memorial Institute, 69, 117
Confederate Memorial Literary Society, 118
Confederate States bonds, 55
Conrad, Joseph, 227
conservation laboratory, 172
Contested Borderland: The Civil War in Appalachian Kentucky and Virginia, by Brian D. McKnight, 514–15
The Convention of 1829–30, 6, 17
Converging Stories: Race, Ecology, and Environmental Justice in American Literature, by Jeffrey Myers, 418–20
Cooper, Chapin, 266, 274
Cooper, Jane, 264, 266, 273, 276, 281, 283
Cooper, John, 266, 274, 277
Cooper, Margaret, 264, 266, 269, 273–74, 276, 280–81, 284
Cooper, Maria, 263–67, 271–72, 282–84, 286
     correspondence of, 267, 269, 270, 273–77, 280–81, 285
     manumission of, 267
     move to Pennsylvania, 267–68, 278
Cooper, Mary, 266
Cooper, Roxy Ann, 266–67, 283
Cooper, Ruhannah, 266, 269, 273–74, 277, 283
Cooper, Sukey, 274
Cooper, William McKim, 264–66, 273–74, 282, 285
Corcoran, William Wilson, 63
courthouses, 295–97, 475
The Courthouses of Early Virginia: An Architectural History, by Carl R. Lounsbury, 295–97
Crockett, Charles, 32
Crozet, Claudius, 238, 245–46
Crump, W. W., 56
Cullen, Charles, 166
Cunliffe, Marcus, 240
Curtis, Christopher M., review by, 521–22
Curtis, Henry, 323–24, 334–37, 347, 349
Cushing, Jonathan Peter, 12–13, 15, 21–25, 30–32, 35, 43, 46
Custis family papers, 186
Customs House (Richmond), 56, 64

D
Dabney, Richard H., 92
Dabney, Virginius, 140, 150
Daniel, Patsey, see Patsey (slave)
Daniel, Terry, 478
Dan River, 469
Darden, Colgate, 146
Daughters of the American Revolution (Old Dominion Chapter), 89–90, 99
Davis, Richard, 100
Davis, William C., and James I. Robertson, Jr., eds., Virginia at War, 1861, 412–13
Deane, Charles, 71
deed of gift, 264
deed of manumission, 272
Deism, 500
Delfino, Susanna, and Michele Gillespie, eds., Global Perspectives on Industrial Transformation in the American South, 413–14
Denkler, Ann, review by, 519–20
Deyerle, Charles P., 248
Difficult Creek (Halifax County), 469
Dinan, John, The Virginia State Constitution: A Reference Guide, 521–22
Dinwiddie, Robert, 63, 186
The Divided Family in Civil War America, by Amy Murrell Taylor, 410–11
Dixon, David, Never Come to Peace Again: Pontiac's Uprising and the Fate of the British Empire in North America, 297–99
Dixon (Charles City County), 337–38
Dolbeare, Benjamin, 32
Dooley, Edwin L., 145–48, 151
Dorman, Charles P., 243
Dotson, Rand, review by, 415–16
Drake, Francis, Sir, 438
Draper, Lyman, 71

E
Earle Palmer Brown Advertising Agency, 169
education, 325–26, 347, 407–8
     private, 244
     public, 234–35, 240–41, 243–44
education of women, 341, 345
Eggleston, Joseph Dupuy, 103
Eisenhower, President and Mrs. Dwight D., 98
Ellis, Thomas Harding, 47, 56
Elvira (slave), 481
English, Beth, "'I have . . . a lot of work to do': Cotton Mill Work and Women's Culture in Matoaca, Virginia, 1888–95,", 356–83
Eslinger, Ellen, "Freedom Without Independence: The Story of a Former Slave and Her Family,", 262–91
Everett, Alice, 193
Ewell, Richard Stoddert, 306–7
Ewing, Affiah, 468, 479
Ewing, George B., 468
Eye of the Storm: A Civil War Odyssey, 193

F
Fahlman, Betsy, review by, 420–21
Farmville and Powhatan Railroad, 361
Farrar, Nicholas, 442
fatherhood, 324–25, 329, 341
Faulkner, Charles J., 34
Fede, Andrew, 486
Fifth Century Campaign, 169, 173, 189
First Resorts: A Visit to Virginia's Springs, 159
The First Way of War: American War Making on the Frontier, 1607–1814, by John Grenier, 294–95
Fischer, David Hackett, 176
Fisher's Hill, battle of, 514
Fitzhugh, William, 93
flag gallery, 129
Flanigan, Daniel, 486
Fleche, Andre M., 514
Floyd, John, 20–21, 23–24, 31, 350
Ford, Paul Leicester, 109
Fort Christanna, 457
Fort Wheeling, 33
Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth, and Eugene D. Genovese, The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders' Worldview, 498–99
Franklin, John Hope, 227, 240, 254
Franklin Society, 230–31, 233
Free African Americans, 263, 268, 486
     economic conditions of, 268
     education of, 274
     employment of, 269, 273–74
     laws regarding, 272
"Freedom Without Independence: The Story of a Former Slave and Her Family," by Ellen Eslinger, 262–91
Freeman, Douglas Southall, 87, 110, 116, 119, 121, 137
Free Press, 193
French and Indian War, 294–95
Friend, Craig Thompson, Along the Maysville Road: The Early American Republic in the Trans-Appalachian West, 508–9
Fulbright, J. William, 137

G
Gabriel Prosser's Rebellion, 279
Gallagher, Gary, 512
Gallagher, Gary W., ed., The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864, 513–14
Garden Party, 182
Garnett, James M., 74
The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles . . ., 125
gender history, 519–20
Genovese, Eugene D., and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders' Worldview, 498–99
George III, 194
Georgia Military Institute, 255
Gibson, George, 147
Giles, Thomas, 56
Gillespie, Michele, and Susanna Delfino, eds., Global Perspectives on Industrial Transformation in the American South, 413–14
Gilmer, Thomas, 36
Glatthaar, Joseph, 513
Global Perspectives on Industrial Transformation in the American South, ed. by Susanna Delfino and Michele Gillespie, 413–14
Glorious Revolution, 453
Gloucester Place (Gloucester County), 349
Gordon, John Brown, 513
Gottwald, Floyd D., Jr., 192
Gottwald family, 191
Grant, Ulysses S., 513
Great Depression, 103, 108–9
Greathead, Henry, 455
Green, B. W., 92
Greenway (Charles City County), 329, 333, 336–37, 348–49
Gregory, George, 105
Grenier, John, The First Way of War: American War Making on the Frontier, 1607–1814, 294–95
Grigsby, Hugh Blair, 47, 60, 62, 65, 70–74, 84
Grigsby, Joseph, Mrs., 231
Grinnan, Daniel, 103
Guaranty Trust Company, 105
Gunstocker, Edward, 452–53
Gutman, Herbert, 358

H
Haden, Emiley B., 485
Hagar (Indian), 453–54
Hakluyt, Richard, the Younger, 438
Haley, Alex, 138, 157
Halifax County Courthouse, 475
Halifax County Superior Court of Law and Chancery, 469–71, 482–83
Hall, Virginius Cornick, Jr., 108, 122, 136, 147, 158, 160–61, 170
Halsey, Brenton S., 151, 158, 177, 189
Hamilton, James, 267, 274, 283
Hampden-Sydney College, 244, 246
Harriet Matilda (slave), 484
Harris, Thomas, 446
Harrison, Benjamin, 450
Haskell, Alexander B., review by, 292–93
Hatcher, Edward, 446
Haynes, Donald, 152, 158–61, 165–67
headright system, 452
Heath, James Ewell, 14, 21, 35
Heiman, Richard S. V., 203
Helms, Ben, 187
Henrico County, 438, 445–46, 450
Henrico County Court, 447, 451, 453–55
Henriques, Peter R., review by, 499–501
Henry, Patrick, 175
Henry, William Wirt, 68, 71, 86, 88
Henry Adams & the Southern Question, by Michael O'Brien, 309–11
Hiden, Martha W., 135
Higginbotham, Don, Revolution in America: Considerations and Comparisons, 517–19
Hillsborough Military Academy, 255
Hine, Lewis W., 370–71
historical journals, 54, 91–92, 100
historical memory, 405–6, 416–20
historical societies, 8–12
history, professionalization of, 54, 84–86
History-Making Campaign, 190
History Notes, 193
Hoffbauer, Charles, 118
Hoffbauer murals, 118, 120
Hogue, James K., review by, 511–12
Hollywood Cemetery, 517
Holt, Addie, 376
Holt, Allie, 377
Holt, Alpheus Jenkin, 357, 364, 377
Holt, Anthelia, 356, 357, 359–60, 362, 364–68, 372–75, 377–78, 385
     letter of, 363
Holt, James, 377
Holt, Mary Ann Blankenship, 357
Holt, Thomas, 377
Holt, William, 364, 368
Horn, James, A Land as God Made It: Jamestown and the Birth of America, 399–400
The Horse in Virginia, 193
horse statue, 193
Howard, A. E. Dick, 522
Huebner, Timothy, 486
Huntington, Henry E., 87
Huntington, Samuel, 227
Huntington Library, 87
Hunton, Eppa, IV, 123, 127, 133, 139
Hurt, Robert, 470

I
"'I have . . . a lot of work to do': Cotton Mill Work and Women's Culture in Matoaca, Virginia, 1888–95," by Beth English, 356–83
Indian, Pegg, 455
Indian, Robin, 455
Indian, Roger, 454–55
Indian badges, 28
Indians, 434, 440
     education of, 445, 449, 456–57
     laws regarding, 443–44, 446–47, 448
     relations with English colonists, 437–39, 442
     religious conversion of, 436, 438, 442
Indian slave trade, 436, 445–46
Indian traders, 443, 445–47, 451, 454, 456
Indian uprising (1622), 439
Industrial Development Authority of Richmond, 171
Institute for Museum Services, 160
Iroquois League, 442
Irving, Washington, 42

J
"J. T. L. Preston and the Origins of the Virginia Military Institute, 1834–42," by Bradford Wineman, 226–61
Jack (Indian), 452
Jack (slave), 264
Jackson, Andrew, 36, 45, 344, 350
Jackson, Charles, 266–67, 272–74, 283, 285
Jackson, William, 31
Jackson, William Henry, 266, 269, 272, 274–75, 281, 284
Jacob (slave), 465, 467–68, 470, 477, 480, 482–84
James, Edward W., 103
James I, 194, 437
James II, 453
James Madison and the Struggle for a Bill of Rights, by Richard Labunski, 503–4
James River Corporation, 151, 172, 195
Jamestown, 292–93, 399–400
Jamestown Exposition of 1907, 102
Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, 183
Janiewski, Dolores, 358
Janney, Caroline E., review by, 516–17
Jefferson, Thomas, 13, 18, 45, 57, 192, 234, 243, 301–2, 328, 407–10, 504–6
Jefferson and Education, by Jennings L. Wagoner, Jr., 407–8
Jefferson and the Press: Crucible of Liberty, by Jerry W. Knudson, 504–6
Jefferson's Vendetta: The Pursuit of Aaron Burr and the Judiciary, by John Wheelan, 301–2
Jeffress, Robert, 125
Jennings, John Melville, 115, 123–25, 128, 130–40, 144, 145–49, 151, 156, 160–61, 165, 167, 172, 201, 206
John Brown's Raid, 467
Johnson, Bradley T., 105
Johnson, Timothy D., review by, 408–10
Johnston, Andrew, 56
Johnston, J. Ambler, 127, 137
Johnston, Rebecca, 99
Jordan, Daniel P., 151, 166–67, 177

K
Kamerer, Tracy L., and Barbara C. Batson, A Capital Collection: Virginia's Artistic Inheritance, 420–21
Kamoie, Laura Croghan, review by, 303–4
Kansas-Nebraska Act, 467
Kelly, James C., 174–77, 188, 190–92, 207
Kent, Henry, 450
Kentucky, 514–15
Kentucky Military Institute, 254
Kerrison, Catherine, Claiming the Pen: Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South, 506–7
Kierner, Cynthia A., review by, 501–3
Kikotanck, 443
King, Martin Kirwan, 184
King, Tish, 184
Kinloch (Essex County), 433
Klein, Milton, 166–67
Kline automobile, 175
Knudson, Jerry W., Jefferson and the Press: Crucible of Liberty, 504–6
Krick, Robert E. L., 514
Krick, Robert K., 513

L
Labunski, Richard, James Madison and the Struggle for a Bill of Rights, 503–4
Ladies' Memorial Association, 516–17
Lancaster, Robert A., 93, 97, 108, 130
A Land as God Made It: Jamestown and the Birth of America, by James Horn, 399–400
Lankford, Nelson D., 93, 150, 161, 174, 193
Leahy, Christopher, "Torn Between Family and Politics: John Tyler's Struggle for Balance,", 322–55
Lee, Robert Edward, 69, 81, 88, 137, 171
Lee, Tom, The Tennessee-Virginia Tri-Cities: Urbanization in Appalachia, 1900–1950, 415–16
Lee House, 69, 80, 88–90, 95, 99–105, 107–9, 115–16, 119–21, 136
     physical expansion of, 123, 172
Leibiger, Stuart, review by, 503–4
Leigh, William, 471, 475, 477, 479–80, 487
Lewis, Lawrence, Jr., 158
Lexington, 229
     citizens of, 230, 240
     political life of, 240–41
     sketch of (1849), 226, 236
Lexington Arsenal, 228–29, 233–34, 245, 248–49
Lexington Arsenal Bill, 243–45
Lexington Gazette, 231–32, 234
Leyburn, Alfred, 237, 243
Liberty Bonds, 103–4
Library of Congress, 172, 207
Library of Virginia, 87, 102
Lincoln, Abraham, 510–11
Littlefield, Daniel C., review by, 403–5
Lodge, Henry Cabot, 71
Logan, Richard, 470–71, 475, 480, 482–83, 485, 487
Looney, J. Jefferson, review by, 517–19
Loope, David, 242, 244
Lound, Henry, 452
Lounsbury, Carl R., The Courthouses of Early Virginia: An Architectural History, 295–97
Lowell, Charles Russell, 513
Ludwell-Lee family papers, 63

M
McArthur, Judith N., and Angela Boswell, eds., Women Shaping the South: Creating and Confronting Change, 519–20
McCabe, William Gordon, 102–5
McCargo, Thomas, 481
McCarty, William, 32
McClellan, George Brinton, 304–6
McClellan's War: The Failure of Moderation in the Struggle for the Union, by Ethan S. Rafuse, 304–6
McDonald, Robert M. S., ed., Thomas Jefferson's Military Academy: Founding West Point, 408–10
     review by, 301–2
McDowell, James, 237, 245–46
McElroy, John L., Jr., 170
McKnight, Brian D., Contested Borderland: The Civil War in Appalachian Kentucky and Virginia, 514–15
McMurry, Richard, 227, 230
Macon, Thomas, 338
McRae, Sherwin, 61
Madison, Ambrose, 403–5
Madison, Bishop James, 327
Madison, Dolley, 45, 175
Madison, James, 13, 14, 25, 45, 116, 234, 503–4
     bust of, 63
Malone, Dumas, 150
Manning, Warren P., 117
Mansell, David, 451
Manumission laws, 265, 279
     (1806), 279
     (1837), 279
A map of Lewis and Clark's track across the western portion of North America . . ., 16
map of Virginia (1854), 262, 278
Marshall, John, 8, 15, 24, 35, 234
Martha Washington: An American Life, by Patricia Brady, 501–3
Marvel, William, Mr. Lincoln Goes to War, 510–11
     review by, 304–6
Mary (Indian), 453–54
Maryland-Steuart Arms Collection, 120–21
Mary (slave), 465, 467–68, 470, 477, 480, 482–84
Massachusetts Historical Society, 8, 10–12, 34, 62, 71, 132
Matilda (slave), 468, 470, 480, 482–84
Matoaca (Chesterfield County), 359, 367, 369, 371, 376–77
Matoaca Manufacturing Company, 357, 359–61, 364–65, 370, 374, 377–78, 384, 385, 386–98
"Matoaca Manufacturing Company: A Photographic Essay,", 384–98
Maxwell, William, 39, 43–45, 47–48
Mayo, William, 63
Mays, David John, 122–23, 125, 129, 134–39, 146
     papers of, 195
Maysville Road, 508–9
Meacham, Sarah Hand, review by, 506–7
Mechanics' Institute, 48, 54–56
Mediterranean slavery, 439
Medley, Isaac, Jr., 483
Medley, Isaac, Sr., 466, 468–72, 477, 479–83, 487
Medley, James, 484
Mellon, Paul, 123, 125, 193–94
Memorial Foundation for Children, 183
Meriweather (slave), 468, 470, 480, 482–85, 487
Messer, Peter C., Stories of Independence: Identity, Ideology, and History in Eighteenth-Century America, 405–6
Mexican-American War, 248
military schools, 227–28, 255
militia, 234–35, 240, 253
Militia Act of 1798, 228
Miller, Randall, 138
Miller, William J., 513
mills, 369, 384, 386–98
Mills, Daniel, 230
Mills, Elizabeth Shown, 138
Mills, Gary, 138
mill workers, 370–71
The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders' Worldview, by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene D. Genovese, 498–99
Minor, Benjamin Blake, 42
Minor's Law Office building, 38, 42
Miry Creek (Halifax County), 469
Monroe, James, 339
Montpelier, 403–5
Moore, Samuel McDowell, 243
Moore, William, 252
Morris, Thomas D., 486
Morsman, Amy Feely, review by, 410–11
Mosely, John, 230
Mount Vernon, 520
Mr. Lincoln Goes to War, by William Marvel, 510–11
Mudd, Roger, 175
murder, 403–5
Murder at Montpelier: Igbo Africans in Virginia, by Douglas B. Chambers, 403–5
Murray, Judith Sargent, 506
Museum of the Confederacy, 118, 158
Myers, Gustavus Adolphus, 21, 31, 39, 48, 56–57, 60, 70
Myers, Jeffrey, Converging Stories: Race, Ecology, and Environmental Justice in American Literature, 418–20

N
Nagel, Paul Chester, 144, 148–51, 152, 158, 168
Nanzatico Indians, 452
Nash, A. E. Keir, 486
National Archives, 207
National Endowment for the Humanities, 124, 166, 172, 190
National Park Service, 186
National Trust for Historic Preservation, 186
National Union Catalog, 124
Native Americans, 30, 292–95, 297–99, 434, 440
     education of, 445, 449, 456–57
     laws regarding, 443–44, 446–47, 448
     relations with English colonists, 437–39, 442
     religious conversion of, 436, 438, 442
Natt (Indian), 451
Nat Turner's Revolt, 36, 466, 474, 486
Necotowance, 443
Never Come to Peace Again: Pontiac's Uprising and the Fate of the British Empire in North America, by David Dixon, 297–99
New-York Historical Society, 10–12, 34, 63, 186
Nicey (slave), 485
Nicholson, Francis, 456
normal schools, 253
North Carolina, 457
North Carolina General Assembly, 480, 487
     Committee on Propositions and Grievances, 480
Northumberland County, 442
Novak, Jana, and Michael Novak, Washington's God: Religion, Liberty, and the Father of Our Country, 499–501
Novak, Michael and Jana Novak, Washington's God: Religion, Liberty, and the Father of Our Country, 499–501

O
Oberg, Michael, ed., Samuel Wiseman's Book of Record: The Official Account of Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia, 1676–1677, 400–1
O'Brien, Michael, Henry Adams & the Southern Question, 309–11
Obrochta, William, 183, 185
Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America, by Sean Patrick Adams, 303–4
175th Anniversary Campaign, 195–96
online catalog, 185, 206
Opechancanough, 292–93, 442
Ott, John, 74

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Palmer, William Price, 61
Parent, Anthony S., Jr., review by, 400–1
Parker, Charles, 254
Patsey (slave), 467–68, 470, 477–80, 482–83
Patton family, 513
Paxton, James, 229
Paxton, Matthew W., 231
Payne, John Barron, 118
Peale, Charles Willson, 47, 63
Peale, Rembrandt, 47
Peale's American Museum, 12
Pendleton, Edmund, 251
Pennsylvania, 303–4
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 92
Peters, John O., Blandford Cemetery: Death and Life at Petersburg, Virginia, 516–17
Petersburg, 369, 516–17
Petersburg Public Library, 385
Peter (slave), 484
petitions, 476
Peyton, Bernard, 238
Philip Morris Incorporated, 175
Philyaw, L. Scott, Virginia's Western Visions: Political and Cultural Expansion on an Early American Frontier, 402–3
plantation slavery, 436–37, 444, 456
plantation system, 444, 447
Pocahontas, 71, 171, 292–93, 438
Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown, by Helen C. Rountree, 292–93
Polecat Creek (Halifax County), 469
Pollard, Frances S., 149, 161, 174, 194, 207
Potomac Indians, 442
Powhatan, 292–93, 437
Powhatan Indians, 438–39, 442, 451
Preston, John Thomas Lewis, 228, 232–35, 236, 239–40, 242–47, 252, 255
Preston family papers, 116
Pruitt, Francelle, review by, 308–9
public history, 177, 183–85
Pullan, Tessa, 193

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R. E. Lee Camp No. 1, 117
Rachal, William M. E., 92–93, 100, 125, 130–32, 136–38, 148–50, 156, 167, 177
Rafuse, Ethan S., McClellan's War: The Failure of Moderation in the Struggle for the Union, 304–6
Ramold, Steven J., review by, 510–11
Randall, Henry, 71
Randolph, John, 71, 340
Randolph, Sir John, 33
Randolph, William, 451
Randolph family, 99
Rasmussen, William M. S., 177
The Reconstruction of White Southern Womanhood, 1865–1895, by Jane Turner Censer, 308–9
Reese, George Henkle, 135
reform movements, 520
Reluctant Ratifiers: Virginia Considers the Federal Constitution, 159
Revolution in America: Considerations and Comparisons, by Don Higginbotham, 517–19
Reynolds, Craig A., review by, 295–97
Reynolds Business History Center, 195, 202
Reynolds Metals Company, 195
Rice, James D., review by, 399–400
Richardson, John P., 254
Richardson, William Harvie, 24, 34, 252
Richmond Academy, 35
Richmond and Danville Railroad, 361
Richmond and Petersburg Railroad, 361
Richmond Athenaeum, 35, 42, 46, 57
Richmond College, 61–62
Richmond Court of Appeals, 483–84
Richmond Enquirer, 252, 323, 339
Richmond Library, 37
Richmond Library Company, 48, 55
Richmond Young Mens' Christian Association, 57
Rives, William Cabell, 40, 42–43, 45, 48, 56, 60, 62, 70
Roane, Spencer, 329
Robbin, Sally Nelson, 99
Robbins, Chandler, 62
Robertson, James I., Jr., and William C. Davis eds., Virginia at War, 1861, 412–13
Robinett, Marshall, 377
Robin (Indian), 453
Robins, E. Claiborne, Jr., 186, 189, 201, 205
Robins, Lora, 177, 192
Robins, Mary Ellen, 205
Robinson, Armstead L., Bitter Fruits of Bondage: The Demise of Slavery and the Collapse of the Confederacy, 1861–1865, 511–12
Robinson, Conway, 21, 24, 32, 34, 37, 38, 42–43, 45, 48, 60, 70–71
Robinson, Morgan P., 116
Rockbridge County, 235
Rockbridge County News, 231
Rockingham County (N.C.), 480
Roots, 138, 157
Rothwell, William, 451
Rountree, Helen C., Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown, 292–93
Rouss, Charles Broadway, 116–17
Royal African Company, 450
Rozbicki, Michal Jan, review by, 498–99
Ruffin, Edmund, 33, 69
Ryan, Thomas Fortune, 118

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Sam (slave), 468, 470, 480–81, 483
Samuel Wiseman's Book of Record: The Official Account of Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia, 1676–1677, ed. by Michael Leroy Oberg, 400–401
Saunders, Valentine, 251
Save America's Treasures, 186
Schweninger, Loren, "The Vass Slaves: County Courts, State Laws, and Slavery in Virginia, 1831–1861,", 464–97
Scots-Irish, 235
Scott, Mary Wingfield, 516
Seawell, John, 349
Seay, Pamela R., 169–70, 174
Shade, William, 241
Sheehan-Dean, Aaron, 514
     review by, 412–13
Shenandoah Valley, 239–40
Shenandoah Valley Campaign (1864), 513–14
The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864, edited by Gary W. Gallagher, 513–14
Shepard, E. Lee, 149, 159, 161, 174, 194, 207
Shepherd, Elizabeth, 479
Sheridan, Philip H., 513
Sherwood, Grace, 30
Short, Elizabeth, 443
Signet Bank, 171
Skipwith, Lady Jean, 506
slave laws, 472
slave literacy, 270
slave petitions, 476, 477–78
slave revolts, 466
slavery, 511–12
     legal aspects of, 467
slave trade, 445
slave traders, 445, 450
Smith, Francis Henney, 238, 246, 248, 251
Smith, Jacob, 274
Smith, John, 32, 71, 125, 438
Smith, Solomon K., review by, 413–14
Sneden, Robert Knox, 192–93
Sneden diary, 180
Society Guild Volunteers, 184
Society of Colonial Wars, 109
Society of the Cincinnati, 245
Sons of Confederate Veterans, 116
Sophia (slave), 485
South Carolina, 436, 444
South Carolina Military Academy, 250, 254
Southern Historical Society, 74, 86, 137
Southern Historical Society Papers, 69, 101, 137
The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory, by W. Fitzhugh Brundage, 416–18
southern states
     agriculture in, 360
     economic history of, 413–14
     historiography of, 358
     industrialization in, 359, 413–14
     intellectual history of, 498–99, 506–7
     race relations in, 416–18
     textile industry in, 359–61, 385
Spotswood, Alexander, 63, 73, 449, 457
Stanard, William Glover, 90, 93, 97, 100–1, 103–4, 108
Stanonis, Anthony, review by, 309–11
Stanwood, Owen, "Captives and Slaves: Indian Labor, Cultural Conversion, and the Plantation Revolution in Virginia," 434–63
     review by, 402–3
Stealey, John E., III, review by, 508–9
Steam: The Untold Story of America's First Great Invention, by Andrea Sutcliffe, 300–1
steamboats, 300–301
steam power, 300–1
Steger, Werner, review by, 306–7
Steuart, Richard D., 120
Stewart, Mary Amanda Williamson, 88
Stories of Independence: Identity, Ideology, and History in Eighteenth-Century America, by Peter C. Messer, 405–6
The Story of Virginia, an American Experience, 175, 182, 183, 188, 190–91, 195, 202
Strohm, Robert F., 159, 161, 174, 194, 201, 207
Stuart, Alexander Hugh Holmes, 68, 73, 86
Stuart, Gilbert, 47
Stuart, James Ewell Brown, 171
Stuart, John, 30
Sully, Robert, 71
Sully, Thomas, 47
Summary View of the Rights of British America . . ., 192
Surry County, 450
Sutcliffe, Andrea, Steam: The Untold Story of America's First Great Invention, 300–1
Swem, Earl Gregg, 124
Sycamore Church, 61, 64

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Taylor, Amy Murrell, The Divided Family in Civil War America, 410–11
Taylor, Henry, 127
Taylor, Zachary, 45
technology, 300–1
Tennessee, 415–16
The Tennessee-Virginia Tri-Cities: Urbanization in Appalachia, 1900–1950, by Tom Lee, 415–16
Terrible Creek (Halifax County), 469
Teute, Frederika J., 150
Thalhimer's Department Store, 170
Thomas, William G., 514
Thomas Jefferson's Military Academy: Founding West Point, ed. by Robert M. S. McDonald, 408–10
Thompson, E. P., 358
Thompson, Lucas Powell, 482–84
Thorpe, George, 438–39, 442, 445, 456–57
Tiffany, Lewis Comfort, 517
Time Magazine covers, 175
Tom's Brook, battle of, 514
Toppin, Edgar Allan, 139
Torrence, William Clayton, 93, 97, 122–23, 125, 130, 136
Treasures of the Commonwealth, 171
Treasures Revealed from the Paul Mellon Library of Americana, 194
Trent, William, 74, 85
Trist, Elizabeth, 18
Trist, Nicholas, 116
trolley car, 191
Tucker, George, 19–25, 29, 33, 36
Tucker, Henry St. George, 36, 40
Tucker, St. George, 131
Turner, Charles, 230
Tuscarora Indians, 457
Tyler, Elizabeth, 345
Tyler, John, 322, 331
     education of, 327
     family life of, 324, 330, 334, 336, 339–40, 345–47
     health of, 335, 339
     law practice of, 337–38
     political life of, 323–25, 330, 334, 339–40, 350
     relationship with children, 340–41, 345–49
     relationship with father, 327–28
Tyler, John, Jr., 342, 346–47, 349, 351
     letter of, 343
     relationship with father, 348
Tyler, John, Sr., 325–26, 328–29, 333, 337
     as father, 329–30
Tyler, Letitia Christian, 324, 330, 331, 334–36, 345, 348
     health of, 345–46
Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, 85
Tyler, Mary, 340–41, 345–47, 349, 351
Tyler, Robert, 342, 345–47, 349, 351
     relationship with father, 348–49
Tyler, Wat, 328

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Uniontown (Pa.), 268, 278
United Confederate Veterans, 116–17
United Daughters of the Confederacy, 116
United States Census, 482
United States Congress, 332
United States Military Academy, 230–31, 244, 250, 254, 408–10
University of Virginia, 37, 137, 194, 234, 243
Upshur, Abel Parker, 36
Urofsky, Melvin I., "The Virginia Historical Society: The First 175 Years, 1831–2006,", 2–208

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Valentine, Edward Virginius, 102–4, 108
Valentine Museum, 158, 173
Vass, Elizabeth, 468, 470
Vass, James, 468–69
Vass, Philip, 465, 468–69, 471
Vass, Philip E., 465–66, 468–73, 482, 487, 483
     estate of, 468, 470, 479, 484
     will of, 464, 465–70, 473, 480
Vass, Philip P., 485
"The Vass Slaves: County Courts, State Laws, and Slavery in Virginia, 1831–1861," by Loren Schweninger, 464–97
Viener, Saul, 131
View of Christiansburg, Virginia, 154
Virginia
     architectural history of, 295–97
     Civil War in, 412–13
     colonial history of, 292–93, 399–403
     economic history of, 303–4, 415–16
     map of (1854), 262, 278
     political history of, 303–4, 521–22
     race relations in, 403–5
     railroads in, 361
     social history of, 308–9
     state art collection in, 420–21
     urbanization of, 415–16
     westward movement of, 402–3
Virginia, decline of, 13, 18–20
Virginia at War, 1861, ed. by William C. Davis and James I. Robertson, Jr., 412–13
Virginia Convention of 1775, 33
Virginia courthouses, 295–97
Virginia Department of Historic Resources, 188, 195
Virginia General Assembly, 61, 87, 228, 472, 477, 487
     Act (8 March 1842), 244, 252
     Committee on the Judiciary, 478–79
Virginia General Court, 453
The Virginia Historical Register and Literary Adviser, 44, 57
Virginia Historical Reporter, 45
Virginia Historical Society
     annual report for 2005, after p. 314
     Board of Trustees (1990), 178
     campaigns, 169, 173, 189–90, 195–96
     Charles F. Bryan, Jr., Wing, 200
     constitution, 17, 23–24
     educational program, 182, 183–85
     endowment, 29, 44, 48, 92, 103–4, 107, 109, 116, 119–20, 138–39, 161, 186, 190, 202
     exhibitions, 159, 171, 175, 176, 183, 189–92, 194–96, 202
     founding, 20–25
     grant funding, 124, 139, 172, 183, 185–86, 190
     history of, 2–217
     library collection, 47, 116, 121, 125, 192, 194, 202
     library reading room, 164
     location, 35, 37, 42, 46, 48, 54–57, 59–61, 69, 74–75, 88, 89, 104–8, 115, 120–21, 123, 172, 203, 207
     manuscript collection, 30, 33, 46, 63, 99, 116, 125, 186, 193–95, 202
     mission statement, 187
     museum collection, 170–71, 175, 191, 202
     portrait collection, 47, 63, 71, 202
     publications, 30, 44–45, 73, 81, 88, 91–93, 99–101, 103, 125, 130, 136–37, 139, 149–50, 193, 201–2
     as a public-oriented institution, 151, 167, 169, 173, 177, 184–85
     public relations, 169–70, 174
     staff (1989), 179; (2006), 205
"The Virginia Historical Society: The First 175 Years, 1831–2006," by Melvin I. Urofsky, 2–217
Virginia Historical Society Documents (series), 137
Virginia House, 98, 106–7, 116, 120–21, 138, 155, 179, 184, 187, 203
Virginia House of Burgesses, 194, 443–44, 446, 451, 457–58
Virginia House of Delegates, 34, 42, 243, 245–46, 252, 336, 339
Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 81, 88, 91–93, 96, 99–101, 103, 109, 125, 130, 136–39, 149–50, 177, 201–2
Virginia Military Institute
     cadets of, 249, 251–52, 255
     curriculum of, 246–47
     Establishing Act (1839), 237, 247, 253
     faculty of, 246–47
     lithograph of (1847), 249
     matriculation register (1842), 249
     model for other institutions, 253–55
     public funding of, 253
     sketch of (1842), 248
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 118, 131
Virginians at Work, 183, 195
Virginia State Constitution, 521–22
The Virginia State Constitution: A Reference Guide, by John Dinan, 521–22
Virginia State Corporation Commission, 119
Virginia State Library (Library of Virginia), 87, 102
V for Virginia: The Commonwealth at War, 1941–1945, 175
Virginia's Westward Visions: Political and Cultural Expansion on an Early American Frontier, by L. Scott Philyaw, 402–3

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Wagoner, Jennings L., Jr., Jefferson and Education, 407–8
Ward, Matthew, review by, 297–99
The War Horse, 193
War of 1812, 228
Warren, Christian, review by, 418–20
Warren County Court, 267, 272
Washington, George, 41, 46, 63, 76, 186, 194, 499–501
     plat (1749), 155
Washington, Jane, 520
Washington, Martha, 186, 501–3
Washington College, 229–30, 235, 244–45
Washington (D.C.), 332
     map of (c. 1818), 321
Washington (Pa.), 268, 279, 284
     economic conditions of, 281
Washington's God: Religion, Liberty, and the Father of Our Country, by Michael Novak and Jana Novak, 499–501
Watkins, Thomas, 478
Waugh, Joan, 513
Webster, Daniel, 325, 344
Weddell, Alexander Wilbourne, 106–7, 110, 116, 119–21, 126
Weddell, Virginia Chase Steedman, 106–7, 120, 126
Weetoppin, 443
Wellford, Beverley Randolph, 121
Wells, Ida B., 520
West Indies, 436, 444, 446
Westmoreland Club, 52, 60, 66, 75, 89, 124, 170
Weyanoke Indians, 443
Wheelan, John, Jefferson's Vendetta:The Pursuit of Aaron Burr and the Judiciary, 301–2
Whig Party, 240–43, 350
whipping post, 170, 204
White, Thomas Willis, 36
Whitehill, Walter Muir, 73, 123, 132
"Who Am I?" Questions and Answers About Famous Virginians, 175
Wilder, L. Douglas, 171
Will (Indian), 452
Willis, John C., review by, 416–18
Wilmot Proviso, 467
Wilson, Davis S., 269, 273, 277, 280–81, 283
Wilson, John, 451
Wineman, Bradford, "J. T. L. Preston and the Origins of the Virginia Military Institute, 1834–42,", 226–61
Winthrop, Robert, 71
Wise, H. Alexander, Jr., 188
Wise, Jennings Cropper, 230, 232, 252
Wise, John, 59
Wiseman, Samuel, 400–1
witchcraft trial, 30
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 506
Womack, Edward, 468, 481
Womack, Sarah L., 468, 481
women
     economic conditions of, 359, 365, 368
     intellectual history of, 506–7
     mill workers, 357–78
     religious life of, 375
     social life of, 366, 368, 372–77
Women Shaping the South: Creating and Confronting Change, edited by Angela Boswell and Judith N. McArthur, 519–20
women's history, 519–20
Woodburn (Charles City County), 324, 336–37
Woodward, Henry, 445
World War I, 103
World War II, 110–11
Wright, Horatio G., 513
Wyatt-Brown, Bertram, 324
Wynne, Thomas Hicks, 67, 72–73
Wythe, George, 33

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Yale University, 9, 194
Yeardley, Francis, 443
Yorktown, 33, 76, 157, 194
Young, James, 466, 469, 478, 480, 482–85, 487
Young, John, 482


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