Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
Volume 114 / Number 3
Book reviews
A Land as God Made It: Jamestown and the Birth of America
By James Horn
New York: Basic Books, 2005
Reviewed by James D. Rice, associate professor of history at the State University of New York, Plattsburgh
Samuel Wiseman's Book of Record: The Official Account of Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia, 1676–1677
Edited by Michael Leroy Oberg
Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2005
Reviewed by Anthony S. Parent, Jr., Wake Forest University
Virginia's Western Visions: Political and Cultural Expansion on an Early American Frontier
By L. Scott Philyaw
Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2004
Reviewed by Owen Stanwood, The Catholic University of America
Murder at Montpelier: Igbo Africans in Virginia
By Douglas B. Chambers
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2005
Reviewed by Daniel C. Littlefield, University of South Carolina
Stories of Independence: Identity, Ideology, and History in Eighteenth-Century America
By Peter C. Messer
DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2005
Reviewed by Keith Beutler, Missouri Baptist University
Jefferson and Education
By Jennings L. Wagoner, Jr.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005
Reviewed by R. B. Bernstein, New York Law School
Thomas Jefferson's Military Academy: Founding West Point
Edited by Robert M. S. McDonald
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004
Reviewed by Timothy D. Johnson, Lipscomb University
The Divided Family in Civil War America
By Amy Murrell Taylor
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005
Reviewed by Amy Feely Morsman, Middlebury College
Virginia at War, 1861
Edited by William C. Davis and James I. Robertson, Jr.
Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2005
Reviewed by Aaron Sheehan-Dean, University of North Florida
Global Perspectives on Industrial Transformation in the American South
Edited by Susanna Delfino and Michele Gillespie
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2005
Reviewed by Solomon K. Smith, Georgia Southern University
The Tennessee-Virginia Tri-Cities: Urbanization in Appalachia, 1900–1950
By Tom Lee
Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005
Reviewed by Rand Dotson, history editor at Louisiana State University Press
The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory
By W. Fitzhugh Brundage
Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005
Reviewed by John C. Willis, University of the South
Converging Stories: Race, Ecology, and Environmental Justice in American Literature
By Jeffrey Myers
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005
Reviewed by Christian Warren, Ph.D., New York Academy of Medicine
A Capital Collection: Virginia's Artistic Inheritance
By Barbara C. Batson and Tracy L. Kamerer
Richmond: Library of Virginia, 2005
Reviewed by Betsy Fahlman, Arizona State University
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