 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
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 At the Abyss: An Insider's History of the Cold War
This is a vivid, unvarnished view of America's fight against Communism, from the end of WWII to the closing of the Strategic Air Command, a work as full of human interest as history, rich characters as bloody conflict. $25.00
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 "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 Sale Price: $10.00
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 The Bedford Boys: One American Town's Ultimate D-Day Sacrifice Based on extensive research, this book tells one of the most poignant stories of World War II. $14.95 Sale Price: $7.50
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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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 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
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 Bombing Civilians: A Twentieth-Century History
From the British bombing of Iraq in the early 1920s to the most recent conflicts in Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Lebanon, Bombing Civilians analyzes in detail the history of indiscriminate bombing. $30.00
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 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
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 The Byrd: Celebrating the Byrd Theatre
This handsome pictorial and documented book presents the delightful convergence of the past, present, and future of one of our nation's few remaining movie palaces. $29.95
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 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
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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 Sale price: $7.00
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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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 Distorted Mirrors: Americans and their Relations with Russia and China in the Twentieth Century
As the United States enters the twenty-first century, it confronts two powers that loomed less large on the world stage a century before. Yet American policies toward Russia and China have been shaped by attitudes going back even further, as this new book relates. $49.95
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 Douglas Southall Freeman
David Johnson has produced a book about this legendary figure that is comprehensive exhaustively researched. $27.50
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 Foster's Richmond
The pictures from Foster's cameras chronicle the capital city for the first third of the twentieth century. $10.00 Sale price: $6.00
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 A Generation of Warriors (VHS tape/DVD)
This documentary film tells the compelling stories of combat veterans. $20.00/$12.95 Sale Price (VHS tape only): $8.00
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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 Sale price: $6.00
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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 Richmond
Historic Photos of Richmond captures this city's journey through still photography selected from the finest archives. $39.95
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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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 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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 Honky Tonk Angel: The Intimate Story of Patsy Cline Patsy Cline, who soared from obscurity to international fame to tragic death in just thirty short years, is explored in colorful and poignant detail. $17.95 • More information |
 Inside the Vietnam War (DVD)
National Geographic presents a fresh, in-depth look at the Vietnam War. $31.95
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 Leave No Man Behind: Liberation and Capture Missions
An investigation of America's elite forces and the raids and rescues they undertake, which will be more typical of warfare in the twenty-first-century. $10.95
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 Legends of Airpower: Vietnam POWs (DVD)
The Legends of Airpower series profiles legendary airmen who served in the Armed Forces of the United States. This DVD contains four episodes featuring Vietnam War servicemen who also spent time as POWs. $22.95
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 Louis D. Brandeis: A Life
The first full-scale biography in twenty-five years of one of the most important and distinguished justices to sit on the Supreme Court—a book that reveals Louis D. Brandeis the reformer, lawyer, and jurist, and Brandeis the man, in all of his complexity, passion, and wit. $40.00
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 Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars
Making sense of the wars for Vietnam has had a long history. These essays comprise the most up-to-date collection of scholarship on the controversial historiography of the Vietnam Wars. $19.95
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 Old Virginia: The Pursuit of a Pastoral Ideal
This book makes an important contribution to our ability to evaluate a past that in many ways continues to impact Virginia's present. $40.00
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 On Hallowed Ground: The Story of Arlington National Cemetary
An intimate, behind-the-scenes chronicle of America's most sacred ground. $28.00
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 Operation Overflight: A Memoir of the U-2 Incident
In this new edition of his classic 1970 memoir about the notorious U-2 incident, pilot Francis Gary Powers reveals the full story of what actually happened in the most sensational espionage case in Cold War history. $24.95
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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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 Our Mothers' War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World War II
Our Mothers' War is a stunning and unprecedented portrait of women during World War II. $26.00 Sale price: $12.95
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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 Sale price: $3.00
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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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 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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 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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 Return with Honor (DVD)
Return with Honor tells the compelling store of American fighter pilots shot down over North Vietnam and their dramatic transformation from self-confident Top Gun–type aviators to prisoners-of-war. $21.95
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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. $49.95
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 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
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 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
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 The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage
An authoritative and compelling account of this supercharged decade $21.00
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 The Story of Virginia
A powerful historical chronicle of the state. $24.95 Sale price: $12.50
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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 Sale price: $6.00
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 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
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 To Conquer Hell: The Meuse-Argonne, 1918
The authoritative, dramatic, and previously untold story of the bloodiest battle in American history. $20.00
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 Unheralded Victory
American-born Australian author, Mark Woodruff presents a clear and compelling case for the overall tactical victory of the allied military over the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army throughout the Vietnam War. $24.95
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 Vietnam War with Walter Cronkite (DVD Set)
For decades, the war in Vietnam was the central drama on the stage of Southeast Asia. It was an intensely publicized war, the first televised war that came roaring into the living rooms of America every night. $27.95
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 The Vietnam Wars, 1945–1990
The first book to give equal weight to the Vietnamese and American sides of the Vietnam war. $14.95 • More information |
 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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 We're Still Here: Contemporary Virginia Indians Tell Their Stories
Both authors traveled across the state interviewing members of each tribe as well as Indians from tribes not indigenous to Virginia. $14.95
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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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 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
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