. . . tells how the first people came to Virginia about 16,000 years ago, developed agriculture, and settled the land. [More]

. . . focuses on the settlement of colonial Virginia and the complex interactions of its English, Native American, and African inhabitants. [More]

. . . demonstrates the steady diversification from a strictly English colony to a pluralistic society between 1607 and 1775. [More]

. . . reveals how a sense of national identity arose from the shared struggle with the other colonies against Great Britain. [More]

. . . shows how, as a million Virginians moved west, sectional crises over slavery led those who remained to develop a sense of identity as southerners. [More]

. . . explains how, once war began, most white Virginians favored the Confederacy rather than fighting fellow southerners. [More]

. . . describes how Virginians embraced economic development after Appomattox, while resisting social change, especially racial equality. [More]

. . . World Wars I and II, the Great Depression, and the Cold War altered the state's political, economic, and social fabric and brought Virginia back into the national mainstream. [More]

. . . provides insight into the struggle of African Americans and women to take their place as equals in Virginia society. [More]

. . . deals with the conventional images of Virginia in popular culture and the gap between those stereotypes and modern realities. [More]