"The Beauty of the Land": Pierre Daura's Vision of Virginia
This exhibition catalog presents a large group of Pierre Daura's Virginia works, which were on view at the Virginia Historical Society through January 2007. $20.00
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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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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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Commonwealth and Community
Melvin Urofsky shows, aside from their religious beliefs, there is little to distinguish Virginia Jews from their Christian neighbors. $11.95
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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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 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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 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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 A Generation of Warriors (DVD)
This documentary film tells the compelling stories of combat veterans.
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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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Greetings from Richmond
Step back in time to enjoy nearly 250 color postcard views of Virginia's capital city and its architecture as it looked during the first half of the 20th century. Explore eleven distinct areas of the city, including its oldest sections?Shockoe Valley, Church Hill, Capitol Square, the western Fan District, and Richmond west of the Boulevard. $24.99
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A Guide to the Records of Best Products Co., Inc.
Best Products Co., Inc., left an indelible mark on the financial and cultural landscape of Virginia. $15.00
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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 Houses of Virginia
From the Tidewater region of its Atlantic Shore to the Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia has some of the most architecturally rich, and perhaps the most historically important, homes in America. $55.00
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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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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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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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 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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Opportunity Time
A disarmingly candid memoir that offers a behind-the-scenes account of Virginia governor Linwood Holton's private and public life at a critical juncture in the political history of Virginia and the nation. $27.95
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Painted History: The Landscapes of Valley View Farm
The paintings will endure as a lasting record of a place, time, and lifestyle. $14.95
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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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Remarkable Trees of Virginia
This stunning collaboration among noted garden writer Nancy Ross Hugo, Virginia Tech forestry professor Jeff Kirwan, and photographer Robert Llewellyn showcases the fruits of an effort to research, locate, and photograph Virginia's most remarkable trees. $49.95
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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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Richmond's Monument Avenue
This book traces the history of Monument Avenue, of its buildings and statuary, and of the people who helped create one of America's great streets. $57.95
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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 Story of Virginia
A powerful historical chronicle of the state. $24.95
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Sydney and Frances Lewis: A Guide to the Papers
Sydney and Frances Lewis have left an indelible mark on both the economic life and the cultural landscape of Virginia and the nation. $15.00
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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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 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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Virginians at War (5 DVD Set)
Created by the Virginia War Memorial, this DVD set features 19 programs which tell the real-life experiences of more than 700 Virginia veterans and citizens. $49.95
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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. $15.00
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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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