Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
Volume 117 / Number 3
Book reviews
Pocahontas, Little Wanton: Myth, Life, and Afterlife
By Neil Rennie
London: Quaritch, 2007
Reviewed by Helen C. Rountree, Old Dominion University
The Way of Enlightenment Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America
By John Fea
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008
Reviewed by Edward L. Bond, Alabama A & M University
The Long Farewell: Americans Mourn the Death of George Washington
By Gerald E. Kahler
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008
Reviewed by John Ferling, University of West Georgia
Aggressive Nationalism: McCulloch v. Maryland and the Foundation of Federal Authority in the Young Republic
Richard E. Ellis
New York: Oxford University Press, 2007
Reviewed by Charles F. Hobson, William and Mary School of Law
The Great Decision: Jefferson, Adams, Marshall, and the Battle for the Supreme Court
Cliff Sloan and David McKean
New York: Public Affairs Books, 2009
Reviewed by Charles F. Hobson, William and Mary School of Law
Railroads in the Old South: Pursuing Progress in a Slave Society
By Aaron W. Marrs
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009
Reviewed by James W. Ely, Jr., Milton R. Underwood Professor of Law, emeritus, and Professor of History, emeritus, at Vanderbilt University
The Battle of the Crater: A Complete History
By John F. Schmutz
Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland and Company, 2009
Reviewed by Earl J. Hess, Lincoln Memorial University
Normans and Saxons: Southern Race Mythology and the Intellectual History of the American Civil War
By Ritchie Devon Watson, Jr.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009
Reviewed by Jason Phillips, Mississippi State University
Woodrow Wilson: Princeton to the Presidency
By W. Barksdale Maynard
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008
Reviewed by Mary Lynn Bayliss, historian and writer.
Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell
By Paul A. Lombardo
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008
Reviewed by Jason Morgan Ward, Mississippi State University
Segregation’s Science: Eugenics and Society in Virginia
By Gregory Michael Dorr
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008
Reviewed by Jason Morgan Ward, Mississippi State University
Freedom’s Main Line: The Journey of Reconciliation and the Freedom Rides
By Derek Charles Catsam
Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2008
Reviewed by Brian J. Daugherity, Virginia Commonwealth University
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