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 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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Beneath a Northern Sky: A Short History of the Gettysburg Campaign
This new approach to a defining battle is sure to fascinate Civil War buffs and all those interested in the rich history of the United States. $19.95
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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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 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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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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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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The Confederate War
Contemporary historians often argue that the South never had a chance. But historian Gary Gallagher5 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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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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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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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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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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 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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Gettysburg
This is the one book on Gettysburg that anyone interested in the Civil War should own. $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 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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 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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Incidents of My Life: Edmund Ruffin's Autobiographical Essays
Edmund Ruffin (1794–1865) is remembered as an innovative American agriculturalist and pioneer in soil chemistry—and as an advocate of southern secession. Here, published for the first time, are the two surviving volumes of Ruffin's manuscript memoirs, written in 1851 with additions in 1853 and 1855. $15.00
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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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 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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Mrs. Robert E. Lee: The Lady of Arlington
History is never more powerful than when it provides a role model for enduring hardship with sturdy and radiant faith. Mary Custis Lee is such an example. $21.99
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The Official Virginia Civil War Battlefield Guide
This is the comprehensive guidebook to the most significant battles of the Civil War. $32.95
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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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 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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Quilts of Virginia, 1607–1899: The Birth of America Through the Eye of a Needle
This new book anticipates Virginia's 400th anniversary in 2007 by presenting over 270 beautiful historic quilts and ephemera. $29.95
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 Richmond Burning: The Last Days of the Confederate Capital
Nelson Lankford draws upon Civil War–era diaries, letters, memoirs, and newspaper reports to vividly recapture the experiences of the men and women, both black and white, who witnessed the tumultuous fall of Richmond. $16.00
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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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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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The Story of Virginia
A powerful historical chronicle of the state. $24.95
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Virginia at War, 1861
Virginia at War, 1861 looks at the commonwealth on the eve of secession, detailing the activities of the convention that finally took the state out of the Union and explaining how Richmond became the capital of the new Confederate nation. $30.00
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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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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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