HIS 281- Selected Bibliography


James Axtell.  The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial Virginia

P. L. Barbour. The Three Worlds of Captain John Smith

Richard R. Beeman.  Patrick Henry: A Biography

Robert Beverley.  History and Present State of Virginia

Warren M. Billings, ed.  The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century: A Documentary History of Virginia, 1606-1689

W. B. Blanton.  Medicine in Virginia in the 17th Century

Daniel Boorstin. The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson

Irving Brandt.  James Madison

H. T. Breen.  Tobacco Culture

H. T. Breen and Stephen Innes.  "Myne Owne Ground": Race and Freedom on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1640-76

Carl Bridenbaugh. Jamestown, 1544-1699

Carl Bridenbaugh.  Seat of Empire: The Political Role of 18th Century Williamsburg

Carl Bridenbaugh.  Vexed and Troubled Englishmen

H. I. Brock.  Colonial Churches in Virginia

Kathleen M. Brown.  Good Wives, Nasty Wenches and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race and Power in Colonial Virginia

W. F. Craven. Dissolution of the Virginia: The Failure of an Experiment

O. P. Chitwood. Justice in Colonial Virginia

O. P. Chitwood.  Richard Henry Lee: Statesman of the Revolution

Noble E. Cunningham. In Pursuit of Reason: The Life of Thomas Jefferson

Virginius Dabney. The Jefferson Scandals

Alvin Dohme.  Shenandoah: The Valley Story

H. J. Eckenrode. The Randolphs: The Story of a Virginia Family

H. J. Eckenrode.  Separation of Church and State in Virginia: A Study in the Development of the Revolution

David Hackett Fischer. Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America

James Thomas Flexner.  Washington: The Indispensable Man

J. B. Frantz, ed. Bacon's Rebellion: Prologue to the Revolution?

I. S. Harrell.  Loyalism in Virginia

D. F. Hawke, ed.  Captain John Smith's History of Virginia

B. J. Hendrick.  The Lees of Virginia

Woody Holton. Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia.

James Horn.  Adapting to a New World: English Society in the 17th Century Chesapeake

Ivor Noel Hume.  Martin's Hundred

Thomas Jefferson. Notes on the State of Virginia

Karen O. Kupperman.  Roanoke: The Abandoned Colony

J. A. Leo Lemay.  Did Pocahontas Save Captain John Smith?

Jan Lewis. The Pursuit of Happiness: Family and Values in Jefferson's Virginia

Dumas Malone. Jefferson: The Virginian

Bernard Mayo. Jefferson Himself

Drew McCoy. The Last of the Fathers: James Madison and the Republican Legacy

John C. Miller.  The First Frontier: Life in Colonial Virginia

John C. Miller.  The Wolf by the Ears: Thomas Jefferson and Slavery

Edmund Morgan.  Virginians at Home: Family Life in the 18th Century

Louis Morton.  Robert Carter of Nomini Hall: A Virginia Tobacco Planter of the 18th Century

Gary Nash.  Red, White, and Black

Nan Netherton, et al.  Fairfax County, Virginia: A History

Peter S. Onuf.  Jeffersonian Legacies

Charles P. Poland. From Frontier to Suburbia: A History of Loudoun County

David B. Quinn.  Set Faire for Roanoke

Willard Stone Randall. Thomas Jefferson: A Life

A. L. Rowse. Elizabethans and America

Bernard Sheehan.  Savagism and Civility: Indians and Englishmen in Colonial America

Jean Edward Smith.  John Marshall: Definer of a Nation

Mechal Sobel.  The World They Made Together: Black and White Values in 18th Century Virginia 

Edith Sprouse.  Colchester: Colonial Port on the Potomac

Brenda E. Stevenson.  Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South

Charles Sydnor.  American Revolutionaries in the Making: Political Practices in Washington's Virginia

Alden T. Vaughan. American Genesis: Captain John Smith and the Founding of Virginia

Lorena S. Walsh. From Calabar to Carter's Grove: History of a Virginia Slave Community

W. E. Washburn.  The Governor and the Rebel

Peter Wood, et al.  Powhatan's Mantle: Indians in the Colonial Southeast

M. H. Woodfin, ed.  Another Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover, 1739-41

Louis B. Wright. The First Gentlemen of Virginia

Louis B. Wright, ed. The Great American Gentleman: The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover, 1709-1712

Klaus Wust.  The Virginia Germans


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