Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
Volume 115 / Number 4
Book reviews
Cradle of America: Four Centuries of Virginia History
By Peter Wallenstein
Lawrence: University of Press of Kansas, 2007
Reviewed by John T. Kneebone, Virginia Commonwealth University
Old Dominion, New Commonwealth: A History of Virginia, 1607–2007
By Ronald L. Heinemann, John G. Kolp, Anthony S. Parent, Jr., and William G. Shade
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007
Reviewed by John T. Kneebone, Virginia Commonwealth University
A New World: England's First View of America
By Kim Sloan
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007
Reviewed by J. Frederick Fausz, University of Missouri-St. Louis
1607: Jamestown and the New World
By Dennis Montgomery
Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007
Reviewed by J. Frederick Fausz, University of Missouri-St. Louis
The River Where America Began: A Journey Along the James
By Bob Deans
Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007
Reviewed by J. Frederick Fausz, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Savage Kingdom: The True Story of Jamestown, 1607, and the Settlement of America
By Benjamin Woolley
New York: HarperCollins, 2007
Reviewed by J. Frederick Fausz, University of Missouri-St. Louis
The True Story of Pocahontas: The Other Side of History
By Linwood "Little Bear" Custalow and Angela L. Daniel "Silver Star"
Golden, Col.: Fulcrum Publishing, 2007
Reviewed by J. Frederick Fausz, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Sea Venture: Shipwreck, Survival, and the Salvation of the First English Colony in the New World
By Kieran Doherty
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2007
Reviewed by J. Frederick Fausz, University of Missouri-St. Louis
A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia: The 1590 Theodor de Bry Latin Edition, in Facsimile Form, Accompanied by the Modernized English Text
By Thomas Hariot
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007
Reviewed by J. Frederick Fausz, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Jamestown, Québec, Santa Fe: Three North American Beginnings
By James C. Kelly, Barbara Clark Smith, Warren M. Billings, Gilles Proulx, and David F. Weber
Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books, 2007
Reviewed by James D. Rice, State University of New York-Plattsburgh
The Politics of War: Race, Class, and Conflict in Revolutionary Virginia
By Michael A. McDonnell
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007
Reviewed by Steven C. Bullock, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Strength and Honor: The Life of Dolley Madison
By Richard N. Côté
Mt. Pleasant, S.C.: Corinthian Books, 2005
Reviewed by Laura Croghan Kamoie, United States Naval Academy
Dominion of Memories: Jefferson, Madison, and the Decline of Virginia
By Susan Dunn
New York: Basic Books, 2007
Reviewed by Jon Kukla
Civil War Weather in Virginia
By Robert K. Krick
Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2007
Reviewed by Kevin M. Levin, St. Anne's - Bellfield School
The Civil War Memoirs of a Virginia Cavalryman: Lt. Robert T. Hubard, Jr.
Edited by Thomas P. Nanzig
Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2007
Reviewed by Ben Wynne, Gainesville State College
Archie and Amélie: Lova and Madness in the Gilded Age
By Donna M. Lucey
New York: Harmony Books, 2006
Reviewed by Samuel C. Shepherd, Jr.
Coalfield Jews: An Appalachian History
By Deborah R. Weiner
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006
Reviewed by Tom Lee, East Tennessee State University
Do, Die, or Get Along: A Tale of Two Appalachian Towns
By Peter Crow
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007
Reviewed by Bryan McNeil, Guilford College
Virginia in the Vanguard: Political Leadership in the 400-Year-Old Cradle of American Democracy, 1981–2006
By Frank B. Atkinson
Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers for the University of Virginia Center for Politics, 2006
Reviewed by James R. Sweeney, Old Dominion University
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