Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
Volume 113 / Number 4
Book reviews
By Birth or Consent: Children, Law, & the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority
By Holly Brewer
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005
Reviewed by John Ruston Pagan, University of Richmond
The First Emancipator: The Forgotten Story of Robert Carter, the Founding Father Who Freed His Slaves
By Andrew Levy
New York: Random House, 2005
Reviewed by Henry Wiencek, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, Charlottesville
The Creation of the British Atlantic World
Edited by Elizabeth Mancke and Carole Shammas
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005
Empire and Nation: The American Revolution in the Atlantic World
Edited by Eliga H. Gould and Peter S. Onuf
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005
Reviewed by Ian K. Steele, University of Western Ontario
Dining at Monticello: In Good Taste and Abundance
Edited by Damon Lee Fowler
Charlottesville: Thomas Jefferson Foundation, 2005
Reviewed by Katharine Edith Harbury, The Library of Virginia
Scandal at Bizarre: Rumor and Reputation in Jefferson's America
By Cynthia A. Kierner
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004
Reviewed by Charlene Boyer Lewis, Kalamazoo College
Retreat from Gettysburg: Lee, Logistics, and the Pennsylvania Campaign
By Kent Masterson Brown
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005
Reviewed by Brian D. McKnight, The University of Virginia's College at Wise
The Last Generation: Young Virginians in Peace, War, and Reunion
By Peter S. Carmichael
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005
Reviewed by Frank Towers, University of Calgary
Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil War: The Eastern Campaigns, 1861–1864
By Earl J. Hess
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005
Reviewed by Kevin M. Levin, St. Anne's–Belfield School, Charlottesville, Virginia
Wild Rose: The True Story of a Civil War Spy
By Ann Blackman
New York: Random House, 2005
Reviewed by Jose O. Diaz, Ohio State University (doctoral candidate)
The Death and Resurrection of Jefferson Davis
By Donald E. Collins
Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005
Reviewed by Thomas J. Brown, University of South Carolina
A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003
By Steven Hahn
Reviewed by Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
The Confederate Battle Flag: America's Most Embattled Emblem
By John M. Coski
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005
Reviewed by David Goldfield, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
The Lamp and the Cross: A History of Averett College, 1859–2001
By Jack Irby Hayes, Jr.
Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2004
Rooted on Blue Stone Hill: A History of James Madison University
By Nancy Bondurant Jones; Forewords by Linwood H. Rose and Ronald E. Carrier
Santa Fe, N.M.: Center for American Places, 2004
No Ordinary College: A History of the University of Virginia's College at Wise
By Brian Steel Wills
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004
Reviewed by Thomas C. M. Truesdell, Marian College of Wisconsin
Quantico: Semper Progredi, Always Forward
By Bradley E. Gernand and Michelle A. Krowl
Virginia Beach, Va.: Donning Company Publishers, 2004
Reviewed by Emily J. Salmon, The Library of Virginia
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