Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
Volume 120 / Number 3
Book reviews
A Tale of Two Colonies: What Really Happened in Virginia and Bermuda?
By Virginia Bernhard
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2011
Reviewed by J. Frederick Fausz, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Ulster to America: The Scots-Irish Migration Experience, 1680–1830
Edited by Warren R. Hofstra
Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2012
Reviewed by Daniel B. Thorp, Virginia Tech
James Madison
By Richard Brookhiser
New York: Basic Books, 2011
Reviewed by David B. Mattern, senior associate editor of the Papers of James Madison
James Madison and the Making of America
By Kevin R. C. Gutzman
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2012
Reviewed by David B. Mattern, senior associate editor of the Papers of James Madison
John Randolph of Roanoke
By David Johnson
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2012
Reviewed by Phillip Hamilton, Christopher Newport University
The Richmond Theater Fire: Early America's First Great Disaster
By Meredith Henne Baker
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2012
Reviewed by Cynthia A. Kierner, George Mason University
Shifting Grounds: Nationalism and the American South, 1848–1865
By Paul Quigley
New York: Oxford University Press, 2012
Reviewed by Elizabeth R. Varon, University of Virginia
Slaves Waiting for Sale: Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade
By Maurie D. McInnis
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011
Reviewed by Elizabeth L. O'Leary, associate curator of American art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War
By Tony Horwitz
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2011
Reviewed by Stanley Harrold, South Carolina State University
John Brown Still Lives! America's Long Reckoning with Violence, Equality, and Change
By R. Blakeslee Gilpin
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011
Reviewed by Stanley Harrold, South Carolina State University
The CSS Virginia: Sink Before Surrender
By John V. Quarstein
Charleston, S.C.: The History Press, 2012
Reviewed by John M. Coski, historian at the Museum of the Confederacy
The Peninsula Campaign and the Necessity of Emancipation: African Americans and the Fight for Freedom
By Glenn David Brasher
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012
Reviewed by Bradford A. Wineman, Marine Corps University
Worth a Dozen Men: Women and Nursing in the Civil War South
By Libra R. Hilde
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012
Reviewed by Susan Gelfand Malka, University of Maryland
The Struggle for Equality: Essays on Sectional Conflict, the Civil War, and the Long Reconstruction
Edited by Orville Vernon Burton, Jerald Podair, and Jennifer L. Weber
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011
Reviewed by David K. Thomson, doctoral candidate at the University of Georgia
Brown's Battleground: Students, Segregationists, and the Struggle for Justice in Prince Edward County, Virginia
By Jill Ogline Titus
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011
Reviewed by Brian J. Daugherity, Virginia Commonwealth University
Southern Stalemate: Five Years without Public Education in Prince Edward County, Virginia
By Christopher Bonastia
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012
Reviewed by Jill Ogline Titus, associate director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College
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