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 American City, Southern Place: A Cultural History of Antebellum Richmond
As a city of the upper South intimately connected to the northeastern states, the southern slave trade, and the Virginia countryside, Richmond embodied many of the contradictions of mid-nineteenth-century America. $24.95
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 American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia
In this classic work, Edmund S. Morgan investigates the bond between slavery and freedom that lies at the very heart of our nation. $13.00
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 The Big Bang: Brown v. Board of Education and Beyond
Get an inside look at the Civil Rights Movement with this autobiography of Oliver W. Hill, Sr., who served as one of the plaintiff attorneys for the landmark case. $24.95/19.95
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 Bound Away: Virginia and the Westward Movement
This book examines three stages of migration to, within, and from Virginia. $22.50
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 Cradle of America: Four Centuries of Virginia History
In this first single-authored history of Virginia since the 1970s, Peter Wallenstein traces major themes across four centuries in a brisk narrative that recalls the people and events that have shaped the Old Dominion. $29.95
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 Fort Monroe: The Key to the South
A powerful pictorial history portraying the exciting story of the only fort in the Upper South to remain under Union control throughout the Civil War. $21.99
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 Guide to African American Manuscripts in the Collection of the Virginia Historical Society
This guide provides access to a diverse and significant set of records that chronicle African American life in Virginia and the nation. $17.00
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 A Guidebook to Virginia's Historical Markers
Including nearly nine hundred new and replacement markers that have been installed along the commonwealth's roadways since the last edition was published in 1994, this third edition of A Guidebook to Virginia's Historical Markers brings together and updates the texts of more than 1,850 official state historical markers placed along Virginia's highways since 1927. $19.95
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 Historic Photos of Virginia
These black-and-white images tell the story of Virginia, its people and places, with a vividness only historic photographs can offer. $39.95
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 Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War
Ely tells a moving story of hope and hardship, of black pride and achievement. $18.00
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 John Brown's Trial
Brian McGinty provides the first comprehensive account of the trial of abolitionist John Brown in 1859, which raised important questions about jurisdiction, judicial fairness, and the nature of treason under the American constitutional system. $27.95
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 Patriotic Treason: John Brown and the Soul of America
This illuminating biography brings John Brown to life in scintillating prose and moving detail, making his life and legacy fascinatingly relevant to today's issues of social justice and to defining the line between activism and terrorism. $15.00
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 Photography in Virginia
A companion to the upcoming exhibition, Photography in Virginia covers images made within the state's borders from the 1840s to the 1960s. $45.00
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 The Portent: John Brown's Raid in American Memory
The companion catalog to the VHS exhibit, which is the first-ever critical analysis by a southern institution of an episode that, on the eve of the Civil War, broke open sectionalist fissures. Brown demanded that his contemporaries take a moral stance on slavery, and to this day a mention of his attack spurs debate about issues of justice, terrorism, liberation, and vigilantism. $9.95
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 Race, Reason, and Massive Resistance: The Diary of David J. Mays, 1954–1959
These private writings by a prominent white southern lawyer offer insight into his state's embrace of massive white resistance following the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling. $39.95
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 The Story of Virginia
A powerful historical chronicle of the state. $24.95
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 The Taste of Country Cooking: The 30th Anniversary Edition of a Great Southern Classic
In recipes and reminiscences equally delicious, Edna Lewis celebrates the uniquely American country cooking she grew up with some fifty years ago in a small Virginia Piedmont farming community that had been settled by freed slaves. $23.95
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 The Unboxing of Henry Brown
This book documents the amazing life of Henry Box Brown, the man who shipped himself out of slavery in a sealed box. $25.00
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 Up from History: The Life of Booker T. Washington
In this compelling biography, Robert J. Norrell reveals how conditions in the segregated South led Washington to call for a less contentious path to freedom and equality. $35.00
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 The Virginia Landmarks Register
The fourth edition of The Virginia Landmarks Register is an entirely new, fully illustrated compilation of the state's buildings, structures, sites, and districts that have been officially designated as historic landmarks by the Virginia Board of Historic Resources over the past thirty years. $65.00
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 With All Deliberate Speed: Implementing Brown v. Board of Education
Featuring twelve essays by distinguished historians, this is the first effort to provide a broad assessment of how well the Brown v. Board of Education decision was implemented. $24.95
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 Witness to a Century (DVD)
Discover the past one hundred years in Virginia through stories from centenarians. $21.95
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 The Civil Rights Movement for Kids
This book describes how students and religious leaders worked together to demand civil rights. $14.95
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 Freedom Song: Young Voices and the Struggle for Civil Rights
Blending memorable music with a historical context, this exploration provides a fresh perspective on the civil rights movement. $18.95
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 A Kid's Guide to African American History
This book includes more than 70 hands-on activities, songs, and games that teach kids about African American history. $14.95
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 Professor Noggin Card Games
Explore various time periods in Virginia's history with these educational games which encourage kids to learn interesting facts about various subjects in our past. $9.99
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 Students on Strike: Jim Crow, Civil Rights, Brown, and Me
Told in John Stokes's own words, the story vividly conveys how his passion for learning helped set in motion one of the most powerful movements in American history, resulting in the desegregation of schools—and life—in the United States. $15.95
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