Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
Volume 112 / Number 3
Book reviews:
Spreading the Gospel in Colonial Virginia: Sermons and Devotional Writings
Edited by Edward L. Bond
Reviewed by Jeffrey H. Richards, Old Dominion University
Within Her Power: Propertied Women in Colonial Virginia
By Linda L. Sturtz
Reviewed by Holly Brewer, North Carolina State University
Thomas Jefferson
By R. B. Bernstein
Reviewed by Henry Wiencek, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
George Washington's South
Edited by Tamara Harvey and Greg O'Brien
Reviewed by James D. Rice, SUNY Plattsburgh
Daniel Boone: An American Life
By Michael A. Lofaro
Reviewed by Randolph Scully, George Mason University
Audacity Personified: The Generalship of Robert E. Lee
By Peter S. Carmichael
Reviewed by Lisa Lauterbach Laskin, Harvard University.
Women at the Front: Hospital Workers in Civil War America
By Jane E. Schultz
Reviewed by Wendy Hamand Venet, Georgia State University.
White Women, Rape, and the Power of Race in Virginia, 1900–1960
By Lisa Lindquist Dorr
Reviewed by Bryant Simon, Temple University
Luther P. Jackson and a Life for Civil Rights
By Michael Dennis
Reviewed by Kara Miles Turner, College of Liberal Arts, Morgan State University.
"We, Too Are Americans": African American Women in Detroit and Richmond, 1940–54
By Megan Taylor Shockley
Reviewed by Richard W. Thomas, Michigan State University
A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow
By David L. Chappell
Reviewed by Andrew M. Manis, Macon State College
Origins of the New South Fifty Years Later: The Continuing Influence of a Historical Classic
Edited by John B. Boles and Bethany L. Johnson
Reviewed by John H. Roper, Emory & Henry College
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