Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
Volume 116 / Number 2
Book reviews
The Papers of John Marshall (12 Volumes)
Edited by Charles F. Hobson
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1974–2006
Reviewed by Steve Belko, University of West Florida
Pharsalia: An Environmental Biography of a Southern Plantation, 1780–1880
By Lynn A. Nelson
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007
Reviewed by John T. Schlotterbeck, DePauw University
An African Republic: Black and White Virginians in the Making of Liberia
By Marie Tyler-McGraw
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007
Reviewed by Eric Burin, University of North Dakota
George Thomas: Virginian for the Union
By Christopher G. Einolf
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007
Reviewed by Rod Andrew, Jr., Clemson University
Chancellorsville and the Germans: Nativism, Ethnicity, and Civil War Memory
By Christian B. Keller
New York: Fordham University Press, 2007
Reviewed by Brian Steel Wills, University of Virginia's College at Wise
Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art
Edited by Angela D. Mack and Stephen G. Hoffius
Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2008
Reviewed by Betsy Fahlman, Arizona State University
The Elizabeth River
By Amy Waters Yarsinske
Charleston, S.C.: History Press, 2007
Reviewed by Bob Deans, Cox Newspapers
The Pentagon: A History
By Steve Vogel
New York: Random House, 2007
Reviewed by Zachary M. Schrag, George Mason University
From VPI to State University: President T. Marshall Hahn, Jr. and the Transformation of Virginia Tech, 1962–1974
By Warren H. Strother and Peter Wallenstein
Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2004
Reviewed by Roger L. Geiger, Pennsylvania State University
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