Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
Volume 109 / Number 3
Book reviews:
The Shaping of Southern Culture: Honor, Grace and War, 1760s-1880s
By Betram Wyatt-Brown
Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
By David W. Blight
Reviewed by Ted Ownby
Elusive Empires: Constructing Colonialism in the Ohio Valley, 1673-1800
By Eric Hinderaker
Reviewed by J. Russell Snapp
A People's History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence
By Ray Raphael
Reviewed by Annette Laing
Free Some Day: The African-American Families of Monticello
By Lucia Stanton
Reviewed by John Saillant
Ways of Wisdom: Moral Education in the Early National Period, Including the Diary of Rachel Mordecai Lazarus
By Jean E. Friedman
Reviewed by Emily B. Todd
States' Rights and the Union: Imperium in Imperio, 1776-1876
By Forrest McDonald
Reviewed by Charles F. Hobson
The Peculiar Democracy: Southern Democrats in Peace and Civil War
By Wallace Hettle
Reviewed by Daniel W. Crofts
Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War
By Charles B. Dew
Reviewed by Eric H. Walther
The War Hits Home: The Civil War in Southeastern Virginia
By Brian Steel Wills
Reviewed by A. Wilson Greene
April 1865: The Month That Saved America
By Jay Winik
Reviewed by E. Susan Barber
Time Full of Trial: The Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony, 1862-1867
By Patricia C. Click
Reviewed by Michael Ayers Trotti
Long Gray Lines: The Southern Military School Tradition, 1839-1915
By Rod Andrew
Reviewed by Mary A. DeCredico
A Kind of Fate: Agricultural Change in Virginia, 1861-1920
By G. Terry Sharrer
Reviewed by Lex Runda
Saving Monticello: The Levy Family's Epic Quest to Rescue the House That Jefferson Built
By Marc Leepson
The Levy Family and Monticello, 1834-1923: Saving Thomas Jefferson's House
By Melvin I. Urofsky
Reviewed by James M. Lindgren
Before Jim Crow: The Politics od Race in Postemancipation Virginia
By Jane Dailey
Reviewed by Michael B. Chesson
Monacans and Miners: Native American and Coal Mining Communities in Appalachia
By Samuel Cook
Reviewed by Thomas Kiffmeyer
Negotiating Boundaries of Southern Womanhood: Dealing with the Powers That Be
Edited by Janet L. Coryell, Thomas H. Appleton, Jr., Anastasia Sims, and Sandra Gioia Treadway
Reviewed by Diane Miller Sommerville
Avenues of Faith: Shaping the Urban Religious Culture of Richmond, Virginia, 1900-1929
By Samuel C. Shepherd, Jr.
Reviewed by Keith Harper
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