HIS 122 - Supplements


Click here to read an essay in which Patrick Reed tries to to find meaning in or a moral for the Civil War and explain what it means to be descended from those who sought to destroy the Union and defend slavery almost a century and a half ago.


An essay Patrick Reed published some years ago on Nativism in Virginia in the 1890s is available for the interested.

This research was followed by a study of Nativism in Virginia, 1900-1915.

These studies were updated and expanded in New Immigrants in the New South.


Patrick Reed wrote two sections of  Fairfax County, Virginia: A History, published by the Board of Supervisors in 1978. They cover the periods 1870-1900 and 1900-1925 and are reprinted with permission.


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