American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America
In this vivid and brilliant biography, David Stewart describes Aaron Burr, the third vice president, as a daring and perhaps deluded figure who shook the nation's foundations in its earliest, most vulnerable decades. $30.00
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 Environmental History Related Books
We invite you to browse our selection of books related to From the Earth: The Environment in Virginia's Past and Future Conference, a FREE, day-long conference focusing on the historic relationship between Virginia's environment and its people. The event will take place at the VHS on Friday, March 16, 2012, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Online registration required.
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Pocahontas, Powhatan, and Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown
Helen Rountree's biographical study provides a rich portrait of Powhatan life. $18.50
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 An Illustrated Guide to Virginia's Confederate Monuments
In this comprehensive guide, Timothy S. Sedore presents the first volume to enumerate Virginia's southern Civil War memorials marking the bloody battles that took place on Virginia soil. $39.95
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 1861: The Civil War Awakening
With his new book, 1861: The Civil War Awakening, Adam Goodheart revisits the most turbulent and consequential year in American history. $28.95
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 Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War
Bestselling author Tony Horwitz tells the electrifying tale of the daring insurrection that put America on the path to bloody war. $28.00
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 Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
Horwitz, a Pulitzer Prize–winning foreign war correspondent, returned to his native U.S. turf to tackle the subject of our own Civil War and how its history is actively replayed by scores of grown men. $16.00
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 Washington: A Life
Pulizer Prize–winning biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation. $40.00/$20.00
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1491
In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, Charles C. Mann radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492. $16.00
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1776
David McCullough tells the story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence. $18.00
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1776 (Audio Book on CD)
David McCullough reads his latest work, a landmark in the literature of American history. $29.95
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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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The Ascent of George Washington: The Hidden Political Genius of an American Icon
John Ferling show us a leader who was not only not above politics but also a canny infighter, a master of persuasion, manipulation, and deniability. $30.00
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 The Battle of the Ironclads
The dramatic events surrounding the Monitor-Merrimack engagement, which occurred in Hampton Roads on March 8 and 9, 1862, are brought to life in this epic tale that tells how steam-powered iron vessels not only influenced the Civil War, but more importantly, how the two ironclads echoed the dawn of modern navies. $19.99
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 Big Bethel: The First Battle
Join award-winning historian John Quarstein as he details the story of the June 10, 1861, battle, when soldiers first realized that the war would not be filled with glorious parades but rather desperate struggles to decide the fate of the nation. $19.99
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Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten
Most Americans get their ideas about the Civil War from movies, television, and other popular media. Civil War historian Gary Gallagher guides readers through the stories told in recent film and art. $30.00
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Civil War Petersburg
Noted Civil War historian A. Wilson Greene now provides an expertly researched, eloquently written study of the city that was second only to Richmond in size and strategic significance. $34.95
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 The Civil War on the Virginia Peninsula
This is the first comprehensive pictorial history interpreting the events that occurred on the Virginia Peninsula during the war that forever changed our nation. $21.99
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The Confederate War
Contemporary historians often argue that the South never had a chance. But historian Gary Gallagher argues that we should not ask why the Confederacy collapsed so soon but rather how it lasted so long. $17.50
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Cry Havoc! The Crooked Road to Civil War, 1861
Nelson D. Lankford's book is a compelling re-creation of the eight crucial weeks preceding the Civil War. $27.95
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 The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944
In the second volume of his epic trilogy about the liberation of Europe in World War II, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson tells the harrowing story of the campaigns in Sicily and Italy. $35.00
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Eye of the Storm: A Civil War Odyssey
Private Sneden's chronicle is one of the richest descriptions of soldier life in Virginia. $20.00
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 Facts & Legends of Sports in Richmond
Brooks Smith and Wayne Dementi have co-authored a delightful book that celebrates the sports of Richmond—the venues, memorable events, and athletes. $14.95
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Finding Thalhimers
Finding Thalhimers traces the author's obsessive quest to find the true story of her father's family and their beloved department store. $25.00
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First Lady of the Confederacy: Varina Davis's Civil War
A century after Varina Davis's death in 1906, Joan E. Cashin has written a masterly work—the first definitive biography of this truly modern, but deeply conflicted, woman. $20.00
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Flight from Monticello: Thomas Jefferson at War
When Jefferson wrote his epitaph, he did not mention that he was the second governor of the state of Virginia in the most trying hours of the Revolution. It is this period, when Jefferson was literally tested under fire, that is illuminated here by author Michael Kranish. $27.95
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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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Founding Mothers
An intimate and illuminating look at the fervently patriotic and passionate women whose tireless pursuits on behalf of their families - and their country - proved just as crucial to the forging of a new nation as the rebellion that established it. $14.99
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Genius in the Garden: Charles F. Gillette and Landscape Architecture in Virginia
In this engaging study of Charles Gillette and his work, George Longest provides a sympathetic portrait of a complex man who was at once cultured and charming, yet also opinionated and irascible. $39.95
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 George Washington's America: A Biography Through His Maps
This unique biography of George Washington—inspired by the maps he used throughout his life—offers new insight into the historic events of his era. $67.50
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Grand Avenues: The Story of Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the French Visionary Who Designed Washington, D.C.
Scott W. Berg's deft narrative account of this little-explored story in American history is a tribute to the genius of Pierre Charles L'Enfant and the enduring city that is his legacy. $15.95
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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 Virginia Gardens
For more than seventy-five years, The Garden Club of Virginia has undertaken garden research and preservation work at numerous historic sites across the Old Dominion, restoring and creating beautiful landscapes for the education and enjoyment of all, from backyard gardeners to design professionals. $49.95
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 The History of Ironclads: The Power of Iron over Wood
John Quarstein documents the dramatic history of Civil War ironclads and reveals how warships like the Monitor and Virginia revolutionized naval warfare. $24.99
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Hollywood Cemetery: The History of a Southern Shrine
Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery is both an American and a southern landmark. $25.00
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Images from the Storm
The Civil War legacy of Robert Knox Sneden is an unparalleled treasure trove of words and pictures. $50.00
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Inventing George Washington: America's Founder, in Myth and Memory
An entertaining and erudite history that offers a fresh look at America's first founding father, the creation of his legend, and what it means for our nation and ourselves. $25.99
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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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Jamestown, the Buried Truth
Examines artifacts from James Fort to reveal fascinating evidence of the lives and deaths of the first settlers, of their endeavors and struggles, and of their relationships with the Virginia Indians. $29.95
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A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
In this gripping account based on new archival material, colonial historian James Horn tells for the first time the complete story of what happened to the Roanoke colonists and their descendants. $26.00
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Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation
Drawing on personal correspondence, private journals, and other primary sources, Roberts brings to life the extraordinary accomplishments of women who laid the groundwork for a better society. $26.95
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 Lee and Grant
This study provides the first major re-assessment of the lives, careers, and historical impact of Civil War generals Lee and Grant and addresses the question: "How should Lee and Grant be evaluated in 2007, the 200th anniversary of Lee's birth?" $60.00/$35.00
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 The Monitor Boys: The Crew of the Union's First Ironclad
Historian John Quarstein has painstakingly compiled bits of historical data gathered through years of research to present the first comprehensive picture of the lives of the officers and crew who served faithfully in an iron ship unlike any vessel previously known. $24.99
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 The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
Focusing on the period between D-Day and V-E Day, this fascinating account follows six men on a mission to save the world's great art from the Nazis. $16.99
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On Hallowed Ground: The Story of Arlington National Cemetery
An intimate, behind-the-scenes chronicle of America's most sacred ground. $28.00
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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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Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery
Richmond, Virginia's Hollywood Cemetery tells countless stories, and, in his new book, John Peters reveals many of them. Although Hollywood has long been viewed quite legitimately as a southern shrine, there are other aspects of the cemetery that make it unique. $49.95
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Robert E. Lee
The 11th book in the critically acclaimed Great Generals Series adds a fresh perspective toward understanding a major figure in American history who remains decidedly an enigma. $25.00
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Secretariat's Meadow: The Land, The Family, The Legend
The complete story of Secretariat's Virginia birthplace and the Chenery family who raised and raced him has never been told...until now. $29.95
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The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown: The Sea Venture Castaways and the Fate of America
The shipwreck of the Sea Venture at Bermuda in 1609 and the role its survivors played in the eventual rescue of the failing colony at Jamestown are dramatic tales from the founding years of the nation. In a new book, authors Lorri Glover and Daniel Blake Smith retell this account of shipwreck, courage, mutiny, and deliverance. $26.00
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Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew
Historian Elizabeth Varon provides a gripping, richly researched account of the woman who led what one historian called "the most productive espionage operation of the Civil War." $19.95
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Thomas Jefferson's Monticello
Thomas Jefferson's Monticello is a superb collection of essays, adorned with beautiful color photography, that showcases this American treasure. $45.00
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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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Virginia: Catalyst of Commerce for Four Centuries
Takes readers on a vivid journey through the centuries as Virginians face and overcome daunting odds, setting the stage for the America that was to come. $59.95
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 The Virginia Plan: William B. Thalhimer and a Rescue from Nazi Germany
This is the remarkable history of William B. Thalhimer's heroic rescue mission of young Jewish students prior to World War II and the struggle of the refugees to make a new home in rural America. $19.99
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The War: An Intimate History, 1941–1945
Ken Burns and Geoffrey C. Ward present an intimate, profoundly affecting chronicle of the war that shaped our world. $50.00
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The War: A Ken Burns Film (DVD)
This seven-part documentary series directed and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick explores the history and horror of the Second World War from an American perspective. $99.95
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 The Wild Vine: A Forgotten Grape and the Untold Story of American Wine
A rich romp through untold American history featuring fabulous characters; the tale of a little-known American grape that rocked the fine-wine world of the nineteenth century and is poised to do so again today. $25.00/$15.00
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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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Year of Meteors
In his chronicle of the events leading up to and following the presidential election of 1860, Douglas Egerton delivers a teeming cast of characters, minor and major,and a breakneck narrative of this most momentous year in American history. $29.00
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