HIS 282 - Selected Bibliography


General Works

Dabney, Virginius. Virginia: The New Dominion.

Dabney, Virginius.  Mr. Jefferson's University.

Dohme, Alvin.  Shenandoah: The Valley Story.

Gamble, Robert S.  Sully: The Biography of a House.

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

Poland, Charles P.  Dunbarton: Dranesville, Virginia.

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

WPA Writers' Program. Virginia: A Guide to the Old Dominion.

Ascendant Virginia, 1783-1820

Brandt, Irving.  James Madison.

Brodie, Fawn. Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History.

Brown, Robert E. and B. K. Brown.  Virginia, 1705-1876:  Democracy or Aristocracy?

Brown, Wyatt.  Southern Honor.

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

Davis, R. B. Intellectual Life in Jefferson's Virginia, 1790-1830.

Isaac, Rhys. The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790.

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

Malone, Dumas. Jefferson: The Virginian.

Malone, Dumas.  Jefferson and the Rights of Man.

McColley, Robert.  Slavery and Jeffersonian Virginia.

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

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

Onuf, Peter. Jeffersonian Legacies.

Pearson, C. C. and J. E. Hendricks.  Liquor and Anti-Liquor in Virginia, 1619-1919.

Peterson, Merrill.  Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation.

Ryland, Garnett. The Baptists of Virginia, 1699-1926.

Van Schreeven, W. J. The Conventions and Constitutions of Virginia, 1776-1966.

Antebellum Virginia, 1830-60

Ambler, C. H.  Sectionalism in Virginia from 1776 to 1861.

Aptheker, Herbert. Negro Slave Revolts in the U. S.

Clarke, J. H., ed. William Styron's Nat Turner: Ten Black Writers Respond.

Craven, A. O.  The Growth of Southern Nationalism, 1848-1861.

Craven, A. O.  Soil Exhaustion as a Factor in the Agricultural History of Virginia and History, 1606-1860.

Dabney, Virginius.  Pistols and Pointed Pens: The Dueling Editors of Old Virginia.

Dew, Charles B.  Bond of Iron: Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge.

Drewry, William S.  The Southampton Insurrection.

Duff, J. B. and P. M. Mitchell, eds.  The Nat Turner Rebellion: The Historical Event and the Modern Controversy.

Foner, Eric, ed.  Nat Turner.

Freehling, Alison Goodyear.  Drift Toward Dissolution.

Grigsby, H. G.  The Virginia Convention of 1829-30.

Jackson, L. P.  Free Nego Labor and Property Holding in Virginia, 1830-1860.

Johnson, F. R.  The Nat Turner Slave Insurrection.

Jordan, Winthrop.  White Over Black.

Klein, Herbert S.  Slavery in the Americas: A Comparative Study of Virginia and Cuba.

Maddox, W. A.  The Free School Idea in Virginia before the Civil War.

Morris, R. K.,ed.  The Achievement of William Styron.

Munford, Beverley B.  Virginia's Attitude Toward Slavery and Secession.

Oates, Stephen B.  The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion.

Perdue, Charles, et al.  Weeveils in the Wheat: Interviews with Virginia Ex-Slaves.

Russell, J. H.  The Free Negro in Virginia.

Shanks, H. T.  The Secession Movement in Virginia, 1847-1861.

Simms, H. H.  The Rise of the Whigs in Virginia, 1824-1840.

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

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

Stone, Edward.  Incident at Harper's Ferry.

Styron, William.  The Confessions of Nat Turner.

Tragle, H. I.  The Southampton Slave Revolt of 1831: A Compilation of Source Material.

Villard, O. G.  John Brown, 1800-1859.

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

Wish, Harvey.  George Fitzhugh, Propagandist of the Old South.

Virginia and the Civil War, 1861-1865

Bill, A. H.  The Beleaguered City: Richmond, 1861-1865.

Brewer, J. H.  The Confederate Negro: Virginia's Craftsmen and Military Laborers.

Catton, Bruce.  A Stillness at Appomattox, et al.

Chestnut, Mary Boykin.  A Diary from Dixie.

Craven, Avery O.  Edmund Ruffin, Southerner.

Douglas, William Kyd.  I Rode with Stonewall.

Fleet, Betsy and John D. P. Fuller, eds.  Green Mount: A Virginia Plantation Family During the Civil War.

Freeman, Douglas S.  Lee's Lieutenants.

Furgurson, Ernest B.  Ashes of Glory: Richmond at War.

Horwitz, Tony. Confederates in the Attic.

Jones, John B.  A Rebel War Clerk's Diary.

Jones, Virgil C.  Ranger Mosby.

McGuire, J. W.  Diary of a Southern Refugee.

Robertson, James.  Civil War Virginia: Battleground for a Nation.

Sears, Stephen.  To the Gates of Richmond.

Siepel, Kevin H.  Rebel: The Life and Times of John Singleton Mosby.

Wert, Jeffry D.  Mosby's Rangers.

Postwar Virginia, 1865-1900

Ayers, Edward L.  The Promise of the New South.

Blake, Nelson.  William Mahone of Virginia.

Buck, J. L. Blair.  The Development of Public Schools in Virginia.

Eckenrode, H. J.  The Political History of Virginia During Reconstruction.

Fleet, Betsy and John D. P. Fuller, eds.  Green Mount After the War, 1865-1900.

McConnell, John P.  Negroes and Their Treatment in Virginia from 1865-1867.

Moger, A. W.  Virginia: Bourbonism to Byrd, 1875-1925.

Morton, R. L.  The Negro in Virginia Politics, 1865-1902.

Pearson, C.C.  The Readjuster Movement in Virginia.

Pulley, R. H.  Old Virginia Restored, 1870-1930.

Taylor, A. A. The Negro in the Reconstruction of Virginia.

Washington, Booker T. Up from Slavery.

Wise, J. S.  The End of an Era.

Woodward, C. Vann. The Origins of the New South.

Woodward, C. Vann.  The Strange Career of Jim Crow.

WPA Writers' Program.  The Negro in Virginia.

Wright, Mike.  City Under Seige: Richmond in the Civil War.

Wynes, Charles E.  Race Relations in Virginia, 1870-1902.

Virginia in the Twentieth Century

Atkinson, Frank B.  The Dynamic Dominion: Realignment and the Rise of Virginia's Republican Party since 1945.

Ayers, Edward and John Willis, eds.  The Edge of the South: Life in 19th Century Virginia.

Buni, Andrew.  The Negro in Virginia Politics, 1902-65.

Dabney, Virginius. Dry Messiah: The Life of Bishop Cannon.

Edds, Margaret.  Claiming the Dream: The Victorious Campaign of Douglas Wilder of Virginia.

Gates, Robbins L.  The Making of Massive Resistance.

Glasgow, Ellen.  Barren Ground, The Voice of the People, Vein of Iron, et al.

Goodman, Susan.  Ellen Glasgow: A Biography.

Hatch, Alden. The Byrds of Virginia.

Heinemann, Ronald L.  Depression and New Deal in Virginia: The Enduring Dominion.

Heinemann, Ronald L.  Harry Byrd of Virginia.

Key, V. O.  Southern Politics in State and Nation.

Kirby, Jack Temple.  Westmoreland Davis.

Larsen, William.  Montague of Virginia: The Making of a Southern Progressive.

Muse, Benjamin.  Virginia's Massive Resistance.

Styron, William.  A Tidewater Morning.

Wilkinson, J. Harvey III. Harry Byrd and the Changing Face of Virginia Politics, 1945-66.


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