Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
Volume 112 / Number 4
Book reviews
Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma
By Camilla Townsend
Reviewed by Susan Sleeper-Smith, Michigan State University
Sir William Berkeley and the Forging of Colonial Virginia
By Warren M. Billings
Reviewed by John J. McCusker, Trinity University
The Varieties of Political Experience in Eighteenth Century America
By Richard R. Beeman
Reviewed by John G. Kolp, U.S. Naval Academy
The History of Ornithology in Virginia
By David W. Johnston
Reviewed by Mark V. Barrow, Jr., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Masterful Women: Slaveholding Widows from the American Revolution through the Civil War
By Kirsten E. Wood
Reviewed by John J. Zaborney, University of Maine at Presque Isle
Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women & Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South
By Stephanie M. H. Camp
Reviewed by Patrick H. Breen, Providence College
Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War
By Melvin Patrick Ely
Reviewed by James L. Roark, Emory University
This Business of Relief: Confronting Poverty in a Southern City, 1740–1940
By Elna C. Green
Robert E. Cray, Jr., Montclair State University
The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth Century South
By Dylan C. Penningroth
Reviewed by Nancy Bercaw, University of Mississippi
Donnybrook: The Battle of Bull Run, 1861
By David Detzer
Reviewed by Ethan S. Rafuse, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
The Eloquent President: A Portrait of Lincoln Through His Words
By Ronald C. White, Jr.
Reviewed by William C. Harris, North Carolina State University
American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies
By Michael W. Kauffman
Reviewed by William Marvel, independent scholar
Freedom Rising: Washington in the Civil War
By Ernest B. Furguson
Reviewed by Michelle A. Krowl, independent scholar
The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture
Edited by Alice Fahs and Joan Waugh
Reviewed by Jason Phillips, Mississippi State University
Virginia Hasn’t Always Been for Lovers: Interracial Marriage Bans and the Case of Richard and Mildred Loving
By Phyl Newbeck
Reviewed by Peter Wallenstein, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Shapers of Southern History: Autobiographical Reflections
By John B. Boles
Reviewed by Kenneth W. Noe, Auburn University
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