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Selected past issues

VOLUME 120 (2012)

Volume 120 / Number 1Volume 120 / Number 1

Gowan Pamphlet: Baptist Preacher in Slavery and Freedom
  - Linda Rowe, pp. 2–31 Abstract

Masquerading Indians and Unsightly Blacks: Racial Policy, the American Past, and National Identity at Colonial National Monument
  - Jeffrey Kosiorek, pp. 32–61 Abstract

Battle Abbey Centennial, pp. 62–78

List of books reviewed


Volume 120 / Number 2Volume 120 / Number 2

John Randolph of Roanoke and the Politics of Slavery in the Early Republic
  - Nicholas Wood, pp. 106–43 Abstract

Polk Miller's Old South Quartette: Interracial Stage Performance at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
  - Jacques Vest, pp. 144–77 Abstract

List of books reviewed


Volume 120 / Number 3Volume 120 / Number 3

"That Unhappy Division": Reconsidering the Causes and Significance of the O'Kelly Schism in the Methodist Episcopal Church
  - Elizabeth A. Georgian, pp. 210–35 Abstract

Playing Her Greatest Role: Priscilla Cooper Tyler and the Politics of the White House Social Scene, 1841–44
  - Christopher J. Leahy, pp. 236–69 Abstract

List of books reviewed


Volume 120 / Number 4Volume 120 / Number 4

"Send us . . . what other Lawe books you shall thinke fitt": Books That Shaped the Law in Virginia, 1600–1860
  - Warren M. Billings, pp. 314–39 Abstract

Geography as Power: The Political Economy of Matthew Fontaine Maury
  - John Majewski and Todd W. Wahlstrom, pp. 340–71 Abstract

Matthew Fontaine Maury and the Evolution of Southern Memory
  - Matthew Mace Barbee, pp. 372–93 Abstract

List of books reviewed

Index to Volume 120 PDF file [PDF - 147kb - link opens new window]


VOLUME 119 (2011)

Volume 119 / Number 1Volume 119 / Number 1

Bacon's Rebellion, the Grievances of the People, and the Political Culture of Seventeenth-Century Virginia
  - Brent Tarter, pp. 2–41 Abstract

Enclosing the Commons: Thomas Jefferson, Agrarian Independence, and Early American Land Policy, 1774–1789
  - Mark Sturges, pp. 42–74 Abstract

List of books reviewed


Volume 119 / Number 2Volume 119 / Number 2

The Long Civil War: A Historiography of the Consequences of the Civil War
  - Aaron Sheehan-Dean, pp. 106–53 Abstract

The Virginia Ordinance of Secession: A Research Note on Contemporary Copies
  - Marianne E. Julienne and Brent Tarter, pp. 154–81 Abstract

List of books reviewed


Volume 119 / Number 3Volume 119 / Number 3

The Divided Legacy of a Founding Father: Henry and Beverley Tucker Confront Nullification and Secession
  - Chad Vanderford, pp. 210–43 Abstract

Race, Politics, and Education in Tidewater Virginia: Christopher Newport College and the Shoe Lane Controversy of 1960–63
  - Phillip Hamilton, pp. 244–75 Abstract

“Thou Knowest Not the Time of Thy Visitation”: A Newly Discovered Letter Reveals Robert E. Lee's Lonely Struggle with Disunion
  - Elizabeth Brown Pryor, pp. 276–96 Abstract

List of books reviewed


Volume 119 / Number 4Volume 119 / Number 4

Rambles of a Runaway from Southern Slavery: The Freedom Narrative of Henry Goings
  - Calvin Schermerhorn, pp. 314–49 Abstract

Madison v. Madison: Dolley Payne Madison and Her Inheritance of the Montpelier Estate, 1836–38
  - Holly C. Shulman, pp. 350–93 Abstract

List of books reviewed

Index to Volume 119 PDF file [PDF - 166kb - link opens new window]


VOLUME 118 (2010)

Volume 118 / Number 1Volume 118 / Number 1

Securing a Legacy: The Publication of James Madison's Notes from the Constitutional Convention
  - David W. Houpt, pp. 2–39 Abstract

"A Constant Attention": Dolley Madison and the Publication of the Papers of James Madison, 1836–1837
  - Holly C. Shulman, pp. 40–70 Abstract

List of books reviewed


Volume 118 / Number 2Volume 118 / Number 2

Michael Cresap and the Promulgation of Settler Land-Claiming Methods in the Backcountry, 1765–1774
  - Cameron B. Strang, pp. 106–35 Abstract

Secession and Slavery as a Positive Good: The Impact of the Anthony Burns Drama in Boston on Virginia
  - Gordon S. Barker, pp. 136–73 Abstract

List of books reviewed


Volume 118 / Number 3Volume 118 / Number 3

Pursuing Happiness in Colonial Virginia: Sacred Words, Cheap Print, and Popular Religion in the Eighteenth Century
  - Jacob M. Blosser, pp. 210–45 Abstract

Virginia's Pupil Placement Board and the Practical Applications of Massive Resistance, 1956–1966
  - Sara K. Eskridge, pp. 246–76 Abstract

List of books reviewed


Volume 118 / Number 4Volume 118 / Number 4

The Shenandoah River Gundalow: Reusable Boats in Virginia's Nineteenth-Century River Trade
  - Seth C. Bruggeman, pp. 314–49 Abstract

Greenock's Case: A Note on Gender, Race, Class, Politics, and Punishment in Early Virginia
  - Lenaye Howard, pp. 350–65 Abstract

List of books reviewed

Index to Volume 118 PDF file [PDF - 270kb - link opens new window]


VOLUME 117 (2009)

Volume 117 / Number 1Volume 117 / Number 1

Surviving War and the Underground: Richmond Free Blacks and Criminal Networks during the Civil War
  - Carey H. Latimore, pp. 2–31 Abstract

The Champion and the Corpse: Art and Identity in Richmond, 1950
  - Thomas Aiello, pp. 32–57 Abstract

List of books reviewed


Volume 117 / Number 2Volume 117 / Number 2

Fighting over Fencing: Agricultural Reform and Antebellum Efforts to Close the Virginia Open Range
  - Drew Addison Swanson, pp. 102 –139 Abstract

Codification in Virginia: Conway Robinson, John Mercer Patton, and the Politics of Law Reform
  - Christopher M. Curtis, pp. 140–180 Abstract

List of books reviewed


Volume 117 / Number 3Volume 117 / Number 3

From the Ashes of the Old Dominion: Accommodation, Immediacy, and Progressive Pragmatism in John Mercer Langston's Virginia
  - Luis-Alejandro Dinnella-Borrego, pp. 214 –249 Abstract

"To Educate, Agitate, and Legislate": Baptists, Methodists, and the Anti-Saloon League of Virginia
  - Mary Beth Mathews, pp. 250–287 Abstract

List of books reviewed


Volume 117 / Number 3Volume 117 / Number 4

"Who Controls the Past Controls the Future": The Virginia History Textbook Controversy
  - Adam Wesley Dean, pp. 318–55 Abstract

Desegregation in the Catholic Diocese of Richmond, 1945–1973
  - Mark Newman, pp. 356–87 Abstract

List of books reviewed

Index to Volume 117 PDF file [PDF - 340kb - link opens new window]


VOLUME 116 (2008)

Volume 116 / Number 1Volume 116 / Number 1

The Pilgrim's Progress: Thomas J. Jackson's Journey Toward Civility and Citizenship
- Christopher R. Lawton, pp. 2–41 Abstract

A Black Journalist in Civil War Virginia: Robert Hamilton and the Anglo-African
- Debra Jackson, pp. 42–72 Abstract

List of books reviewed


Volume 116 / Number 2Volume 116 / Number 2

The Prophet in His Own Words: Nat Turner's Biblical Construction
- Anthony Santoro, pp. 114–49 Abstract

New South Boomtown: Roanoke, Virginia, 1882–1884
- Rand Dotson, pp. 150 –90 Abstract

List of books reviewed


Volume 116 / Number 3Volume 116 / Number 3

Fighting for Freedom: Virginia Dissenters' Struggle for Religious Liberty during the American Revolution
- John A. Ragosta, pp. 226–61 Abstract

"A Richmond Institution": Earnest Sevier Cox, Racial Propaganda, and White Resistance to the Civil Rights Movement
- Jason Ward, pp. 262–93 Abstract

List of books reviewed


Volume 116 / Number 4Volume 116 / Number 4

Enlightened Correspondents: The Transatlantic Dialogue of Thomas Jefferson and Alexander von Humboldt
  - Sandra Rebok, pp. 328–69 Abstract

"One of the Best Loved, North and South": The Appropriation of National Reconciliation by LaSalle Corbell Pickett
  - Caroline E. Janney, pp. 370–406 Abstract

List of books reviewed

Index to Volume 116 PDF file [PDF - 350kb - link opens new window]


VOLUME 115 (2007)

Volume 114 / Number 1Volume 115 / Number 1

Making History in Virginia
- Brent Tarter, pp. 2–55 Abstract

Mr. Jefferson's University: Women in the Village!
- Phyllis Leffler, pp. 56–107 Abstract

Rediscovered: Robert E. Lee's Earliest-Known Letter
- Elizabeth Brown Pryor, pp. 108–21 Abstract

List of books reviewed


Volume 114 / Number 1Volume 115 / Number 2

The Episcopal Church in Virginia, 1607–2007
- Edward L. Bond and Joan R. Gundersen, pp. 162–344 Abstract

List of books reviewed

Index to Volume 115, Number 2 PDF file [PDF - 203kb - link opens new window]


Volume 114 / Number 1Volume 115 / Number 3

Well Calculated for the Farmer: Thoroughbreds in the Early National Chesapeake, 1790–1850
- Kenneth Cohen, pp. 370–411 Abstract

"With a Weight of Circumstances Like Millstones About their Necks": Freedwomen, Federal Relief, and the Benevolent Guardianship of the Freedmen's Bureau
- Mary Farmer-Kaiser, pp. 412–42 Abstract

VHS Annual Report 2006 [download] PDF file Adobe Acrobat required

List of books reviewed


Volume 114 / Number 1Volume 115 / Number 4

"Lee in Love": Courtship and Correspondence in Antebellum Virginia
- Robert E. L. deButts, Jr., pp. 486–577 Abstract

List of books reviewed

Index to Volume 115 PDF file [PDF - 514kb - link opens new window]


VOLUME 114 (2006)

Volume 114 / Number 1Volume 114 / Number 1

The Virginia Historical Society: The First 175 Years, 1831–2006
- Melvin I. Urofsky, pp. 2–208 Abstract

Index to Volume 114, Number 1 PDF file [PDF - 162kb - link opens new window]


Volume 114 / Number 2Volume 114 / Number 2

J. T. L. Preston and the Origins of the Virginia Military Institute, 1834–42
- Bradford Wineman, pp. 226–61 Abstract

Freedom Without Independence: The Story of a Former Slave and Her Family
- Ellen Eslinger, pp. 262–91 Abstract

VHS Annual Report 2005 [download] PDF file Adobe Acrobat required

List of books reviewed


Volume 114 / Number 2Volume 114 / Number 3

Torn Between Family and Politics: John Tyler's Struggle for Balance
- Christopher Leahy, pp. 322–55 Abstract

"I have . . . a lot of work to do": Cotton Mill Work and Women's Culture in Matoaca, Virginia, 1888–95
- Beth English, pp. 356–83 Abstract

Matoaca Manufacturing Company: A Photographic Essay, pp. 384–98

List of books reviewed


Volume 114 / Number 2Volume 114 / Number 4

Captives and Slaves: Indian Labor, Cultural Conversion, and the Plantation Revolution in Virginia
- Owen Stanwood, pp. 434–63 Abstract

The Vass Slaves: County Courts, State Laws, and Slavery in Virginia, 1831–1861
- Loren Schweninger, pp. 464–97 Abstract

List of books reviewed

Index to Volume 114 PDF file [PDF - 355kb - link opens new window]


VOLUME 113 (2005)

Volume 113 / Number 1Volume 113 / Number 1

Constructing to Command: Rivalries Between Green Spring and the Governor's Palace, 1677–1722
- Virginia B. Price, pp. 2–45 Abstract

His Slaves or Hers?: Customary Claims, a Planter Marriage, and a Community Verdict in Lancaster County, 1793
- Tatiana van Riemsdijk, pp. 46–79 Abstract

List of books reviewed


Volume 113 / Number 2   Volume 113 / Number 2

Rosenwald Schools in the Northern Neck
- Phyllis McClure, pp. 114–45 Abstract

"An Experiment in Southern Letters": Reconsidering the Role of The Reviewer in the Southern Renaissance
- Benjamin E. Wise, pp. 146–78 Abstract

VHS Annual Report 2004 [download] PDF file Adobe Acrobat required

List of books reviewed


Volume 113 / Number 3   Volume 113 / Number 3

George Percy's "Trewe Relacyon": A Primary Source for the Jamestown Settlement
- Mark Nicholls, pp. 212–75 Abstract

Gendering the City, Gendering the Welfare State: The Nurses' Settlement of Richmond, 1900–1930
- Elna C. Green, pp. 276–311 Abstract

List of books reviewed


Volume 113 / Number 4   Volume 113 / Number 4

Justice Has Something To Do With It: Class Relations and the Confederate Army
- Aaron Sheehan-Dean, pp. 340–77 Abstract

William Mahone, the Lost Cause, and Civil War History
- Kevin M. Levin, pp. 378–412 Abstract

List of books reviewed


VOLUME 112 (2004)

Volume 112 / Number 1Volume 112 / Number 1

First from the Right: Massive Resistance and the Image of Thomas Jefferson in the 1950s
- Robert G. Parkinson, pp. 2–35 Abstract

"Take Him East Where Life Began": The Role of Virginia in Shaping the Early Writings of Allen Tate
- Anthony Stanonis, pp .36–61 Abstract

VHS Annual Report 2003 [download] PDF file Adobe Acrobat required

List of books reviewed


Volume 112 / Number 2Volume 112 / Number 2

The Evolution of Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia
- Douglas L. Wilson, pp. 98–133 Abstract

Unraveling the Strange History of Jefferson's Observations sur la Virginie
- Gordon S. Barker, pp. 134–77 Abstract

Thomas Jefferson's Last Letter
- J. Jefferson Looney, pp. 178–84

List of books reviewed


Volume 112 / Number 3Volume 112 / Number 3

A New Look at an Old Wall: Indians, Englishmen, Landscape, and the 1634 Palisade at Middle Plantation
- Philip Levy, pp. 226–65

"No Summer Holiday": The Chaplaincy of Richmond's Walter Russell Bowie in World War I
- Samuel C. Shepherd, Jr., pp. 266–302 Abstract

List of books reviewed


Volume 112 / Number 4Volume 112 / Number 4

Reflections on the Church of England in Colonial Virginia
- By Brent Tarter, pp. 338–71 Abstract

Murder and Biblical Memory: The Legend of Vernon Johns
- Ralph E. Luker, pp. 372–418 Abstract

List of books reviewed


VOLUME 111 (2003)

Volume 111 / Number 1Volume 111 / Number 1

Our Rebellious Neighbors: Virginia Border Counties During Pennsylvania's Whiskey Rebellion
- Kevin T. Barksdale, pp. 5–32 Abstract

So Far From God and So Close to Stonewall Jackson: The Executions of Three Shenandoah Valley Soldiers
- Peter S. Carmichael, pp. 33–66

Early Views of Virginia Indians
- Compiled by Jeffrey Ruggles, pp. 67–77 Introduction

List of books reviewed


Volume 111 / Number 2Volume 111 / Number 2

"They Will Be Adjudged by Their Drink, What Kinde of Housewives They Are": Gender, Technology, and Household Cidering in England and the Chesapeake, 1690–1760
- Sarah Hand Meacham, pp. 117–50 Abstract

"In the Spirit of Fraternity": The United States Government and the Burial of Confederate Dead at Arlington National Cemetery, 1864-1914.
- Michelle A. Krowl, pp. 151–86 Abstract

List of books reviewed


Volume 111 / Number 3Volume 111 / Number 3

Friendship and Commerce: The Conflict and Coexistence of Values on Virginia's Northern Neck in the Revolutionary Era
- Albert H. Tillson, Jr., pp. 221–62 Abstract

Republicanism and Society: John Randolph of Roanoke, Joseph Glover Baldwin, and the Quest for Social Order
- Adam L. Tate, pp. 263–98

List of books reviewed


Volume 111 / Number 4Volume 111 / Number 4

Samuel Davies and the Transatlantic Campaign for Slave Literacy in Virginia
- Jeffrey H. Richards, pp. 333–78 Abstract

Murder Made Real: The Visual Revolution of the Halftone
- Michael Ayers Trotti, pp. 379–410 Abstract

List of books reviewed


VOLUME 110 (2002)

Volume 110 / Number 1Volume 110 / Number 1

Appalachia Before Mr. Peabody: Some Recent Literature on the Southern Mountain Region
- Kenneth W. Noe, pp. 5–34 Abstract

The Jamestown Jubilees: "State Patriotism" and Virginia Identity in the Early Nineteenth Century
- David James Kiracofe, pp. 35–68 Abstract

Father Gregorio Bolivar's 1625 Report: A Vatican Source for the History of Early Virginia
- Edited by Edward L. Bond, Jan L. Perkowski, and Alison P. Weber, pp. 69–86

Lost Virginia: Vanished Architecture of the Old Dominion
- Compiled by William M. S. Rasmussen, pp. 87–97

List of books reviewed


Volume 110 / Number 2Volume 110 / Number 2

Richard E. Byrd and the Legacy of Polar Exploration

Introduction
- Warren R. Hofstra, pp. 137–52 Full text

Richard E. Byrd's First Antarctic Expedition
- Eugene Rodgers, pp. 153–74

Exploring a Secret Land: The Literary and Technological Legacies of Richard E. Byrd
- Lisle A. Rose, pp. 175–208

Richard Byrd, Polar Exploration, and the Media
- Robert N. Matuozzi, pp. 209–36

Historical Archaeology and the Byrd Legacy: The United States Antarctic Service Expedition, 1939-41
- Noel D. Broadbent and Lisle A. Rose, pp. 237–58

List of books reviewed


Volume 110 / Number 3Volume 110 / Number 3

"They Are as Proud of Their Uniform as Any Who Serve Virginia": African American Participation in the Virginia Volunteers, 1872–99
- Roger D. Cunningham, pp. 293–338 Abstract

What Did You Flunk? Summer Schools and the Race for Promotions in Richmond, Virginia, 1911–31
- Kenneth M. Gold, pp. 339–76 Abstract

The Female Antislavery Petition Campaign of 1831–32
- Patrick Breen, pp. 377–98 Abstract

List of books reviewed


Volume 110 / Number 4Volume 110 / Number 4

"Richmond Again Taken": Reappraising the Brady Legend through Photographs by Andrew J. Russell
- Susan E. Williams, pp. 437–60 Abstract

Flag-Waving Wahoos: Confederate Symbols at the University of Virginia, 1941–51
- Christopher C. Nehls, pp. 461–88 Abstract

List of books reviewed


VOLUME 109 (2001)

Volume 109 / Number 1Volume 109 / Number 1

Puritans and Religious Strife in the Early Chesapeake
- Kevin Butterfield, pp. 5–36 Abstract

Pennsylvania and Virginia Germans during the Civil War: A Brief History and Comparative Analysis
- Christian B. Keller, pp. 37–86 Abstract

List of books reviewed


Volume 109 / Number 2 Volume 109 / Number 2

The Art of Presidential Leadership: George Washington and the Jay Treaty
- Todd Estes, pp. 127–58 Abstract

The Spiritual Fruits of Revolution: Disestablishment and the Rise of Virginia Baptists
- Charles F. Irons, pp. 159–86 Abstract

"All That is Pure in Religion and Valuable in Society": Presbyterians, the Virginia Society, and the Sabbath, 1830-1836
- Forrest L. Marion, pp. 187–218 Abstract

List of books reviewed


Volume 109 / Number 3 Volume 109 / Number 3

Historical Memory, Sectional Strife, and the American Mecca: Mount Vernon, 1783-1853
- Jean B. Lee, pp. 255–300 Abstract

Mary Custis Lee's "Reminiscences of the War"
- Edited by Robert E. L. deButts, Jr., pp. 301–25

List of books reviewed


Volume 109 / Number 4 Volume 109 / Number 4

A Slave for Every Soldier: The Strange History of Virginias Forgotten Recruitment Act of 1 January 1781
- L. Scott Philyaw, pp. 367–85   Abstract

"A Loathing of Public Debt, Taxes, and Excises" The Political Economy of John Randolph of Roanoke
- John F. Devanny, Jr., pp. 386–416   Abstract

List of books reviewed

Index to Volume 109

Virginia Historical Society Annual Report 2001 [PDF - 95k] Adobe Acrobat required


VOLUME 108 (2000)

Volume 108 / Number 1Volume 108 / Number 1

George Mason's Pursuit of Religious Liberty in Revolutionary Virginia
- Daniel L. Dreisbach, pp. 5–44

William G. Price and the Gloucester Agricultural and Industrial School
- George F. Bagby, pp. 45–84


Volume 108 / Number 2Volume 108 / Number 2

Source of Knowledge, Source of Power: The Supernatural World of English Virginia, 1607-1624
- Edward L. Bond, pp. 105–38

Thomas Jefferson and the Colonial American Stage
- Odai Johnson, pp. 139–54

Strangers Setting Among Us: The Sources and Challenge of the Urban Free Black Population of Early Virginia
- Michael L. Nicholls, pp. 155–79


Volume 108 / Number  3Volume 108 / Number 3

Private Correspondence for the Public Good: Thomas Jefferson to Elbridge Gerry, 26 January 1799
- Andy Trees, pp. 217–54 Abstract

The Decline of the Port of Richmond: The Congress, the Corps, and the Chamber of Commerce
- Steven J. Hoffman, pp. 255–78 Abstract

Assimilation by Marriage: White Women and Native American Men at Hampton Institute, 1878–1923
- Katherine Ellinghaus, pp. 279–303 Abstract

List of books reviewed


Volume 108 / Number 4Volume 108 / Number 4

"To Do Justice to His Majesty, The Merchant And The Planter": Governor William Gooch and the Virginia Tobacco Inspection Act of 1730
- Stacy L. Lorenz, pp. 345–92 Abstract

"The Grave and Scandalous Evil Infected to Your People": The Erosion of Confederate Loyalty in Floyd County, Virginia
- Rand Dotson, pp. 393–434 Abstract

List of books reviewed


VOLUME 107 (1999)

Volume 107 / Number 1Volume 107 / Number 1

The Private George Washington: A Bicentennial Reconsideration

George Washington's "Unmannerly" Behavior: The Clash between Civility and Honor
- William Guthrie Sayen, pp. 5–36

"To Judge of Washingtons Conduct": Illuminating George Washington's Appearance on the World Stage
- Stuart Leibiger, pp. 37–44

Mason Locke Weems's Life of George Washington and the Myth of Braddock's Defeat
- Sylvia Neely, pp. 45–72

The Final Struggle between George Washington and the Grim King: Washington's Attitude toward Death and an Afterlife
- Peter R. Henriques, pp. 73–97


Volume 107 / Number 2Volume 107 / Number 2

Albums of Affection: Female Friendship and Coming of Age in Antebellum Virginia
- Anya Jabour, pp. 125–58

Southern Artisans, Organization, and the Rise of a Market Economy in Antebellum Petersburg
- L. Diane Barnes, pp. 159–88

Making Virginia Progressive: Courts and Parties, Railroads and Regulators, 1890-1910
- George Harrison Gilliam, pp. 189–222


Volume 107 / Number 3Volume 107 / Number 3

Late Antebellum Virginia Reconsidered
- Danial W. Crofts, pp. 253–86

"Any Old Joe Named Zilch"? The Senatorial Campaign of Dr. Louise Oftedal Wensel
- George Lewis, pp. 287–316


Volume 107 / Number 4Volume 107 / Number 4

Kanawhan Prelude to Nineteenth-Century Monopoly in the United States: The Virginia Salt Combinations
- John Edmund Stealey III

Preface, p. 139

1. Introduction: Anatomy of Place Law and Economy, p. 353

2. The First Attempts at Concert, p. 368

3. William Steele and Robert Makemie Steele in 1822, p. 381

4. Armstrongs, Grant and Company, January 1827-December 1829, p. 390

5. Dickinson, Armstrongs and Company and the Purge, January 1830-December 1835, p. 401

6. Hewitt, Ruffner and Company, 1836-1841, and a Seven-Year Depression, p. 418

7. An Abortive Incorporation and the Kanawha Salt Association, January 1847-December 1850, p. 441

8. Ruffner, Donnally and Company: Legal Refinement in a Declining Industry, February 1851-December 1856, p. 455

9. Economic Decline and Legal Continuity, p. 473


VOLUME 106 (1998)

Volume 106 / Number 1Volume 106 / Number 1

Partners in Geology, Brothers in Frustration: The Antebellum Geological Surveys of Virginia and Pennsylvania
- Sean Patrick Adams, pp. 5–34

"Virginia Is Middle Ground": The Know Nothing Party and the Virginia Gubernatorial Election of 1855
- John David Bladek, pp. 35–70

Twentieth-Century Manuscripts: Selected Collections at the Virginia Historical Society
- Compiled by Douglas B. Rodman and E. Lee Shepard, pp. 71–109


Volume 106 / Number 2Volume 106 / Number 2

Atop an Anvil: The Civilians' War in Fairfax and Alexandria Counties, April 1861-April 1862
- Noel G. Harrison, pp. 133–64

Southern Strategies: The 1970 Election for the United States Senate in Virginia
- James R. Sweeney, pp. 165–200

Mistaken Identity: Spencer Roane and the "Amphictyon" Letters of 1819
- Eric Tscheschlok, pp. 201–11


Volume 106 / Number 3Volume 106 / Number 3

"To Perpetuate Holy Memory": Commemorating the Lost Cause in the Old Dominion

"If Vanquished I Am Still Victorious": Religious and Cultural Symbolism in Virginia's Confederate Memorial Day Celebrations, 1866-1930
- Martha E. Kinney, pp. 237–66

Baseball, the Lost Cause, and the New South in Richmond, Virginia, 1883-1890
- Robert H. Gudmestad, pp. 267–300 Abstract

In the Valley of the Shadow: Communities and History in the American Civil War
- William G. Thomas III, pp. 301–18


Volume 106 / Number 4Volume 106 / Number 4

The Multistoried House: Twentieth-Century Encounters with the Domestic Architecture of Colonial Virginia
- Camille Wells, pp. 353–418

Judge St. George Tucker and the Case of Tom v. Roberts: Blunting the Revolution's Radicalism from Virginia's District Courts
- Christopher Doyle, pp. 419–42

"To Be Freed from Thate Curs and Let at Liberty": Interracial Adultery and Divorce in Antebellum Virginia
- Joshua D. Rothman, pp. 443–81


VOLUME 105 (1997)

Volume 105 / Number 1Volume 105 / Number 1

The Women of Accomack versus Henry Smith: Gender, Legal Recourse, and the Social Order in Seventeenth-Century Virginia
- Irmina Wawrzyczek, pp. 5–26

By the Book: Eliza Ambler Brent Carrington and Conduct Literature in Late Eighteenth-Century Virginia
- Catherine Kerrison, pp. 27–52

Reforming the "Academical Village": Edwin A. Alderman and the University of Virginia, 1904-1915
- Michael Dennis, pp. 53–86


Volume 105 / Number 2Volume 105 / Number 2

"The Empire of My Heart": The Marriage of William Byrd II and Lucy Parke Byrd
- Paula A. Treckel, pp. 125–56

"Rebel against Rebel": Enslaved Virginians and the Coming of the American Revolution
- Woody Holton, pp. 157–92

"Equitable Rights and Privileges": The Divided Loyalties in Washington County, Virginia, during the Franklin Separatist Crisis
- Peter J. Kastor, pp. 193–226


Volume 105 / Number 3Volume 105 / Number 3

The Baptist General Association of Virginia and Desegregation, 1931-1980
- Mark Newman, pp. 257–86

A Segregationist on the Civil Rights Commission: John S. Battle, 1957-1959
- James R. Sweeney, pp. 287–316

Nike Defends Washington: Antiaircraft Missiles in Fairfax County, Virginia, during the Cold War, 1954-1974
- Christopher John Bright, pp. 317–46


Volume 105 / Number 4Volume 105 / Number 4

Flawed Judgment: The Court-Martial of Commodore James Barron: A Lawyer's Retrospective
- K. Michael Latshaw, pp. 377–408

"But My Friends Are Poor": Ross Hamilton and Freedpeople's Politics in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, 1869-1901
- Harold S. Forsythe, pp. 409–38

Conserving the Youth: The Civilian Conservation Corps Experience in Shenandoah National Park
- Patrick Clancy, pp. 439–72


VOLUME 104 (1996)

Volume 104 / Number 1Volume 104 / Number 1

The New Virginia Bookshelf
- Brent Tarter, pp. 7–102

The Founding Years of Virginia - and the United States
- Karen Ordahl Kupperman, pp. 103–12

Primal Forces: Three Interlocking Themes in the Recent Literature on Eighteenth-Century Virginia
- James P. Whittenburg, pp. 113–20

The Nineteenth-Cenutry Bookshelf
- Janes Turner Censer, pp. 121–28

Virginia History as Southern History: The Nineteenth Century
- Edward L. Ayers, pp. 129–36

From Dynasty to Disfranchisement: Some Reflections about Virginia History, 1820-1902
- James Tice Moore, pp. 137–48

New Directions in Virginia's Civil Rights History
- Robert A. Pratt, pp. 149–56


Volume 104 / Number 2Volume 104 / Number 2

Constructing a Revolution: Women and Gender Roles in Virginia

The Ladies and the Lottery: Elite Women's Gambling in Eighteenth-Century Virginia
- Linda L. Sturtz, pp. 165–84

Genteel Balls and Republican Parades: Gender and Early Southern Civic Rituals, 1677-1826
- Cynthia A. Kierener, pp. 185–210

"No Fetters but Such as Love Shall Forge": Elizabeth and William Wirt and Marriage in the Early Republic
- Anya Jabour, pp. 211–50

One "Desegregated Heart": Sarah Patton Boyle and the Crusade for Civil Rights in Virginia
- Kathleen Murphy Dierenfield, pp. 251–84


Volume 104 / Number 3Volume 104 / Number 3

Anglican Theology and Devotion in James Blair's Virginia, 1685-1743: Private Piety in the Public Church
- Edward L. Bond, pp. 313–40

Preserving the Patrimony: William Branch Giles and Virginia versus the Federal Tariff
- Kevin R. Gutzman, pp. 341–72

Testimony from the Old Dominion before the Joint Committee on Reconstruction
- Richard Lowe, pp. 373–98


Volume 104 / Number 4Volume 104 / Number 4

Sir William Berkeley and the Diversification of the Virginia Economy
- Warren M. Billings, pp. 433–54

Freedmen and Enslaved Soil: A Case Study of Manumission, Migration, and Land
- Michael Trotti, pp. 455–80

"Circular Addressed to the Colored Brethren and Friends in America": An Unpublished Essay by Lott Cary, Sent from Liberia to Virginia, 1827
- Edited by John Saillant, pp. 481–504


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