University Of Virginia Press: 345 books
Keep On Keeping On
The NAACP and the Implementation of Brown v. Board of Education in Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
Keep On Keeping On is the fullest account to date of how African Americans and the NAACP brought about school desegregation in Virginia in the face of fierce opposition from segregationists and the Byrd machine.
Gabriel's Conspiracy
A Documentary History
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2012
The plans for a large slave rebellion in the Richmond area in 1800, orchestrated by a literate enslaved blacksmith named Gabriel, leaked out before they could be executed, and he and twenty-five other enslaved people were hanged. In reaction to the plot, the Virginia and other legislatures passed...
"Answer at Once"
Letters of Mountain Families in Shenandoah National Park, 1934-1938
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
With the Commonwealth of Virginia's Public Park Condemnation Act of 1928, the state surveyed for and acquired three thousand tracts of land that would become Shenandoah National Park. The Commonwealth condemned the homes of five hundred families so that their land could be "donated" to the...
Thomas Jefferson's Lives
Biographers and the Battle for History
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2019
Who was the "real" Thomas Jefferson? If this question has an answer, it will probably not be revealed reading the many accounts of his life. For two centuries biographers have provided divergent perspectives on him as a man and conflicting appraisals of his accomplishments. Jefferson was controversial...
A Little Child Shall Lead Them
A Documentary Account of the Struggle for School Desegregation in Prince Edward County, Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
In the twentieth-century struggle for racial equality, there was perhaps no setting more fraught and contentious than the public schools of the American south. In Prince Edward County, Virginia, in 1951, a student strike for better school facilities became part of the NAACP legal campaign for school...
The Dooleys of Richmond
An Irish Immigrant Family in the Old and New South
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The Dooleys of Richmond is the biography of two generations of a dynamic and philanthropic immigrant family in the urban South. While most Irish Catholic immigrants who poured into the region in the nineteenth century were poor and illiterate, John and Sarah Dooley were affluent and well educated....
by James Salter
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
James Salter’s exalted place in American letters is based largely on the intense admiration of other writers, but his work resonates far beyond the realm of fellow craftsmen, addressing themes--youth, war, erotic love, marriage, life abroad, friendship--that speak to us all.
Following the...
The True Geography of Our Country
Jefferson’s Cartographic Vision
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
A philosopher, architect, astronomer, and polymath, Thomas Jefferson lived at a time when geography was considered the "mother of all sciences." Although he published only a single printed map, Jefferson was also regarded as a geographer, owing to his interest in and use of geographic and cartographic...
Doing Justice to Mercy
Religion, Law, and Criminal Justice
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
It is often assumed that the law and religion address different spheres of human life. Religion and ethics articulate complex systems of moral reasoning that concern norms, deliberation of ends, cultivation of disposition, and transformation of moral agency. Law, in contrast, seeks to govern human...
Beyond 1776
Globalizing the Cultures of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2018
In Beyond 1776, ten humanities scholars consider the American Revolution within a global framework. The foundation of the United States was deeply enmeshed with shifting alliances and multiple actors, with politics saturated by imaginative literature, and with ostensible bilateral negotiations that...
Civil War Talks
Further Reminiscences of George S. Bernard and His Fellow Veterans
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Based on a series of manuscript finds, the never-published second volume of War Talks of Confederate Veterans by George Bernard presents first-hand accounts of major military campaigns in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania.
Mr. and Mrs. Dog
Our Travels, Trials, Adventures, and Epiphanies
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
The New York Times–bestselling author Donald McCaig has established an expansive literary career, founded equally on books about working sheepdogs and the Civil War novels Jacob’s Ladder and Rhett Butler’s People, the official sequel to Gone with the Wind.
In his new book, Mr. and Mrs....
by Melissa Walker
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
Melissa Walker set out on a journey that many women of her generation have mapped only in their dreams. Like many American chroniclers before her who have surrendered to the aimless pleasures of the road, Walker had no geographical destination in mind, but she did have two definite goals—one personal,...
Apostles of Disunion
Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Charles Dew’s Apostles of Disunion has established itself as a modern classic and an indispensable account of the Southern states’ secession from the Union. Addressing topics still hotly debated among historians and the public at large more than a century and a half after the Civil War, the book...