Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
Volume 115 / Number 3
Book reviews
Jamestown: The Buried Truth
By William M. Kelso
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006
Reviewed by Philip Levy, University of South Florida
The Backcountry Towns of Colonial Virginia
By Christopher E. Hendricks
Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006
Reviewed by Albert H. Tillson, Jr., University of Tampa
Colonial Chesapeake: New Perspectives
Edited by Debra Meyers and Melanie Perreault
Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2006
Reviewed by Michael Leroy Oberg, State University of New York-Geneseo
George Mason: Forgotten Founder
By Jeff Broadwater
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006
Reviewed by Daniel L. Dreisbach, American University
Race and Liberty in the New Nation: Emancipation in Virginia from the Revolution to Nat Turner's Rebellion
By Eva Sheppard Wolf
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006
Reviewed by Wayne K. Durrill, University of Cincinnati
Slavery and the Peculiar Solution: A History of the American Colonization Society
By Eric Burin
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005
Reviewed by Patrick H. Breen, Providence College
John Tyler: The Accidental President
By Edward P. Crapol
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006
Reviewed by William G. Shade, Lehigh University
Cry Havoc!: The Crooked Road to Civil War, 1861 (Purchase online)
By Nelson D. Lankford
New York: Viking, 2007
Reviewed by Frank Towers, University of Calgary
Beleaguered Winchester: A Virginia Community at War, 1861–1865
By Richard R. Duncan
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007
Reviewed by A. Wilson Greene, Pamplin Historical Park and The National Museum of the Civil War Soldier
Civil War Petersburg: Confederate City in the Crucible of War
By A. Wilson Greene
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006
Reviewed by Daniel E. Sutherland, University of Arkansas
Super-Scenic Motorway: A Blue Ridge Parkway History
By Anne Mitchell Whisnant
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006
Reviewed by Anthony J. Stanonis, Queen's University Belfast
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