The African American Experience in Vietnam: Brothers in Arms
James Westheider explores the social and professional paradoxes facing African American soldiers in Vietnam. $19.95
• More information |
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
• More information |
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
• More information |
Bloods: Black Veterans of the Vietnam War: An Oral History
Wallace Terry's Bloods remains the definitive account of African American soldiers' valiant service in Vietnam. $7.99
• More information |
Bound Away: Virginia and the Westward Movement
This book examines three stages of migration to, within, and from Virginia. $22.50
• More information |
The Brown Decision, Jim Crow, and Southern Identity
This book examines how our historical understanding of segregation has evolved since the Brown decision. $22.95
• More information |
Colonial Churches of Virginia
Virginia hosts some of the oldest churches in the country. Colonial Churches of Virginia charts the histories of these early church buildings and their significance in the growth of the commonwealth and the founding of this nation. $39.95
Sale Price: $19.95
• More information |
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
• More information |
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
• More information |
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
• More information |
Hearthside Cooking
For cooks who want to experience a link to culinary history, Hearthside Cooking is a treasure trove of early American delights. First published in 1986, it has become a standard guide for those interested in foodways and experimenting with new recipes and techniques. $30.00
Sale Price: $25.50
• More information |
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
• More information |
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.
$35.00 (Sale Price: $15.00) / $18.00
• More information |
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
• More information |
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
• More information |
A People's History of the United States: 1492–Present
The only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of—and in the words of—America's women, factory workers, African Americans, Native Americans, working poor, and immigrant laborers. $18.95
• More information |
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
• More information |
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
• More information |
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
• More information |
Rights for a Season: The Politics of Race, Class, and Gender in Richmond, Virginia
This book explores the various dimensions of black political mobilization in Richmond. $38.00
• More information |
The Sixties: The Years That Shaped a Generation (DVD)
The Sixties: The Years That Shaped a Generation traces the events of one of the most turbulent and influential periods of political and cultural change in the twentieth century and the powerful affects they had on an entire generation. $25.95
• More information |
The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage
An authoritative and compelling account of this supercharged decade $21.00
• More information |
The Story of Virginia
A powerful historical chronicle of the state. $24.95
Sale price: $12.50
• More information |
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. $22.95
• More information |
They Closed Their Schools: Prince Edward County, Virginia, 1951–1964
The definitive history of the closure of the Prince Edward County, Virginia public schools between 1959 and 1964. $9.95
• More information |
Treasures Revealed
This catalog describes an extremely rare collection of items from American and Virginia history. $40.00
Sale price: $10.00
• More information |
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
• More information |
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
• More information
• Listen to Robert J. Norrell's Banner Lecture online. |
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
• More information |
Witness to a Century (DVD)
Discover the past one hundred years in Virginia through stories from centenarians. $21.95
• More information |
World War 1 - American Legacy (DVD)
This film vividly tells the many forgotten stories of the men and women who served in the Great War. $24.95
• More information |
