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Virginia Magazine of History and Biography

Volume 111 / Number 2

Book reviews:

Roots of Secession: Slavery and Politics in Antebellum Virginia
By William A. Link
Reviewed by John Majewski, University of California, Santa Barbara

Creating the American Mind: Intellect and Politics in the Colonial Colleges.
By J. David Hoeveler
Reviewed by Nancy L. Rhoden, University of Western Ontario

Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation Between Church and State.
By Daniel L. Dreisbach
Reviewed by Timothy L. Hall, University of Mississippi

Exploring Lewis and Clark: Reflections on Men and Wilderness.
By Thomas P. Slaughter
Reviewed by David Igler, University of California, Irvine

Notorious in the Neighborhood: Sex and Families Across the Color Line in Virginia, 1787-1861
By Joshua D. Rothman
Reviewed by Tim Lockley, University of Warwick

The Selected Letters of Dolley Payne Madison.
Edited by David B. Mattern and Holly C. Shulman
Reviewed by Richard Labunski, University of Kentucky

South By Southwest: Planter Emigration and Identity in the Slave South.
By James David Miller
Reviewed by Shearer Davis Bowman, Berea College and University of Kentucky

Sphinx on the American Land: The Nineteenth Century South in Comparative Perspective.
By Peter Kolchin
Reviewed by Carl N. Degler, Stanford University

The Human Tradition in the Old South.
Edited by James C. Klotter
Reviewed by Lewie Reece, Anderson College

Colors and Blood: Flag Passions of the Confederate South.
By Robert E. Bonner
Reviewed by Anne Sarah Rubin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and South, 1861-1865.
By Alice Fahs
Reviewed by Larry E. Sullivan, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York

The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862.
Edited by Gary W. Gallagher
Reviewed by Paul D. H. Quigley, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

African American Life in the Rural South, 1900–1950.
Edited by R. Douglas Hurt
Reviewed by Scott E. Giltner, University of Pittsburgh

Old Virginia: The Pursuit of a Pastoral Ideal.
By William M. S. Rasmussen and Robert S. Tilton
Reviewed by John d'Entremont, Randolph-Macon Woman's College

The Rise of Southern Republicans.
By Earl Black and Merle Black
Reviewed by Robert Holsworth, Virginia Commonwealth University

Democracy Heading South: National Politics in the Shadow of Dixie.
By Augustus B. Cochran III
Reviewed by Robert Holsworth, Virginia Commonwealth University



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