Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
Volume 114 / Number 2
Book reviews
Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown
By Helen C. Rountree
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005
Reviewed by Alexander B. Haskell, NEH Fellow at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
The First Way of War: American War Making on the Frontier, 1607–1814
By John Grenier
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005
Reviewed by Kevin T. Barksdale, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia
The Courthouses of Early Virginia: An Architectural History
By Carl R. Lounsbury
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005
Reviewed by Craig A. Reynolds, Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana
Never Come to Peace Again: Pontiac's Uprising and the Fate of the British Empire in North America
By David Dixon
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2005
Indian and European Contact in Context: The Mid-Atlantic Region
Edited by Dennis B. Blanton and Julia A. King
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004
Reviewed by Matthew Ward, University of Dundee
Steam: The Untold Story of America's First Great Invention
By Andrea Sutcliffe
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004
Reviewed by Sean Patrick Adams, University of Florida
Jefferson's Vendetta: The Pursuit of Aaron Burr and the Judiciary
By Joseph Wheelan
New York: Carroll & Graf, 2005
Reviewed by Robert M. S. McDonald, United States Military Academy
Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America
By Sean Patrick Adams
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004
Reviewed by Laura Croghan Kamoie, U.S. Naval Academy
McClellan's War: The Failure of Moderation in the Struggle for the Union
By Ethan S. Rafuse
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005
Reviewed by William Marvel, an independent scholar from South Conway, New Hampshire
Confederate General R. S. Ewell: Robert E. Lee's Hesitant Commander
By Paul D. Casdorph
Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004
Reviewed by Werner Steger, Dutchess Community College, SUNY
The Reconstruction of White Southern Womanhood, 1865–1895
By Jane Turner Censer
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003
Reviewed by Francelle Pruitt, assistant editor of the Journal of Southern History and a Ph.D. candidate at Rice University
Henry Adams & the Southern Question
Michael O'Brien
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005
Reviewed by Anthony Stanonis, Texas A&M University
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