Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
Volume 117 / Number 1
Book reviews
Prodigy Houses of Virginia: Architecture and the Native Elite
By Barbara Burlison Mooney
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008
Reviewed by Carter L. Hudgins, University of Mary Washington
The Road to Monticello: The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson
By Kevin J. Hayes
New York: Oxford University Press, 2008
Reviewed by Douglas L. Wilson, Knox College
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
By Annette Gordon-Reed
New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2008
Reviewed by Catherine Kerrison, Villanova University
Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America
By Meredith Mason Brown
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008
Reviewed by Daniel B. Thorp, Virginia Tech
The Age of Strict Construction: A History of the Growth of Federal Power, 1789–1861
By Peter Zavodnyik
Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2007
Reviewed by Rachel A. Shapiro, University of Virginia
Military Education and the Emerging Middle Class in the Old South
By Jennifer R. Green
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008
Reviewed by Rod Andrew Jr., Clemson University
The Age of Lincoln
By Orville Vernon Burton
New York: Hill and Wang, 2007
Reviewed by Randall M. Miller, Saint Joseph’s University
Shenandoah 1862: Stonewall Jackson’s Valley Campaign
By Peter Cozzens
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008
Review by Gary Ecelbarger, an independent scholar who has written about the 1862 Shenandoah Valley Campaign
Shenandoah Summer: The 1864 Valley Campaign
By Scott C. Patchan
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007
Reviewed by Keith S. Bohannon, University of West Georgia
Meade’s Army: The Private Notebooks of Lt. Col. Theodore Lyman
Edited by David W. Lowe
Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2007
Reviewed by John Hennessy, chief historian at Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park
What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War
By Chandra Manning
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007
Reviewed by Patricia Ann Owens, Wabash Valley College
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
By Drew Gilpin Faust
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008
Reviewed by Caroline E. Janney, Purdue University
The View From the Ground: Experiences of Civil War Soldiers
Edited by Aaron Sheehan-Dean
Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007
Reviewed by Rodney J. Steward, Auburn University
Race, War, and Remembrance in the Appalachian South
By John C. Inscoe
Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008
Reviewed by Paul Christopher Anderson, Clemson University
Contemporary Southern Identity: Community through Controversy
By Rebecca Bridges Watts
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2008
Reviewed by Rand Dotson, senior acquisitions editor at Louisiana State University Press
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