Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
Volume 118 / Number 2
Book reviews
A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
By James Horn
New York: Basic Books, 2010
Reviewed by Lorri Glover, Saint Louis University
A Very Mutinous People: The Struggle for North Carolina, 1660–1713
By Noeleen McIlvenna
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009
Reviewed by Daniel B. Thorp, Virginia Tech
Braddock's March: How the Man Sent to Seize a Continent Changed American History
By Thomas E. Crocker
Yardley, Pa.: Westholme Publishing, 2009
Reviewed by Cameron B. Strang, doctoral candidate at the University of Texas at Austin
Flight from Monticello: Thomas Jefferson at War
By Michael Kranish
New York: Oxford University Press, 2010
Reviewed by R. B. Bernstein, New York Law School
Edgar Allan Poe
By Kevin J. Hayes
London: Reaktion Books, 2009
Reviewed by Yvette R. Piggush, Florida International University
Strategies for Survival: Recollections of Bondage in Antebellum Virginia
By William Dusinberre
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009
Reviewed by Michael B. Chesson, University of Massachusetts–Boston
The Fragile Fabric of Union: Cotton, Federal Politics, and the Global Origins of the Civil War
By Brian Schoen
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009
Reviewed by Frank J. Byrne, State University of New York at Oswego
In the Trenches at Petersburg: Field Fortifications and Confederate Defeat
By Earl J. Hess
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009
Reviewed by Keith S. Bohannon, University of West Georgia
Take Care of the Living: Reconstructing Confederate Veteran Families in Virginia
By Jeffrey W. McClurken
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009
Reviewed by David C. Williard, doctoral candidate at the University of North Carolina
Almight God Created the Races: Christianity, Interracial Marriage, and American Law
By Fay Botham
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009
Reviewed by Brian J. Daugherity, Virginia Commonwealth University
The Oyster Question: Scientists, Watermen, and the Maryland Chesapeake Bay since 1880
By Christine Keiner
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009
Reviewed by Drew A. Swanson, doctoral candidate at the University of Georgia
With All Deliberate Speed: Implementing Brown v. Board of Education
Edited by Brian J. Daugherity and Charles C. Bolton
Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2008
Reviewed by Derek Charles Catsam, University of Texas of the Permian Basin
On Hallowed Ground: The Story of Arlington National Cemetery
By Robert M. Poole
New York: Walker and Company, 2009
Reviewed by Michelle A. Krowl, Northern Virginia Community College
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