The Story of Virginia
A powerful historical chronicle of the state. $24.95
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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. $15.95
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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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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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Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America
This fascinating book is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time. $27.50
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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
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April 1865: The Month That Saved America
Jay Winik offers a brilliant new look at the Civil War's final days that will forever change the way we see the war's end and the nation's new beginning. $14.95
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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 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
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Before and After Jamestown: Virginia's Powhatans and Their Predecessors
Introduces the Powhatan—the Native Americans of Virginia's coastal plains, who played an integral part in the life of the Jamestown and Williamsburg settlements—in scenes that span 1,100 years. $24.95
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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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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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Bound Away: Virginia and the Westward Movement
This book examines three stages of migration to, within, and from Virginia. $22.50
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A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia
A great classic of Americana, this account of the first attempt to plant an English colony in America is also the first published book illustrated from drawings executed in what is now the United States. $12.95
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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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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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Cry Havoc! The Crooked Road to Civil War, 1861
Nelson D. Lankford's new book is a compelling re-creation of the eight crucial weeks preceding the Civil War. $27.95 / $17.00
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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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The Episcopal Church in Virginia, 1607–2007
This history will trace the church's accomplishments, failures, and conflicts throughout its four centuries in Virginia. $25.00
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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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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. $29.95/$18.95
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First People: The Early Indians of Virginia
An essential introduction to the history of Virginia Indians from early times to the present day. $12.95
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The First Seventeen Years: Virginia 1607–1624
A great classic of Americana, this account of the first attempt to plant an English colony in America is also the first published book illustrated from drawings executed in what is now the United States. $9.95
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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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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
An illuminating study of the intertwined lives of the founders of the American republic. $27.50 / $14.95
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Founding Brothers (DVD)
Drawing on the words of the founders and incisive commentary from leading scholars, Founding Brothers is an elegant and engaging portrait of America's origins in personal conflict and compromise. $44.95
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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. $24.95 / $14.95
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Four Years in the Confederate Artillery: The Diary of Private Henry Robinson Berkeley
A rare account written by an articulate young Hanover County soldier who participated in several major Civil War campaigns. $10.00
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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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Good Morning Vietnam (DVD)
Academy Award® winner Robin Williams (Best Supporting Actor, Good Will Hunting, 1997) shakes up 1965 Saigon in the role that garnered him his very first Oscar® nomination. $21.95
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His Excellency: George Washington
A landmark biography that brings to life in all his complexity the most important and perhaps least understood figure in American history. $26.95
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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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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
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The Hornbook of Virginia History
Since 1949, The Hornbook has been the definitive, handy reference guide to Virginia's past. $29.95
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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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Indians in Seventeenth-Century Virginia
A concise history of the culture of the Native American tribes that made up the Powhatan Confederacy. $9.95
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Inside the Vietnam War (DVD)
National Geographic presents a fresh, in-depth look at the Vietnam War. $31.95
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In the Footsteps of Grant and Lee: The Wilderness Through Cold Harbor
Provides a stunning, stirring account of the deadly game of wits and will between the Civil War's foremost military commanders. $39.95
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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.
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The Jamestown Adventure: Accounts of the Virginia Colony, 1605–1614
This volume collects contemporary accounts of the first successful colony in what would become the United States. $11.95
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Jamestown Narratives: Eyewitness Accounts of the Virginia Colony
This volume contains a complete library of all surviving accounts of the colony. $39.95
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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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John Smith's Chesapeake Voyages 1607–1609
Scholars from multiple disciplines take the reader on Smith's exploratory voyages and reconstruct the Chesapeake environment and its people as Smith encountered them. $29.95
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The Killer Angels
This unique, sweeping, and unforgettable book is a dramatic re-creation of the battleground for America's destiny. $15.00
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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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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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The Letterbook of John Custis IV of Williamsburg, 1717–1742
This absorbing letterbook provides a remarkable window into the life and struggles of John Custis from 1717 to 1742. $55.00
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Life & Letters of Gen. Robert Edward Lee
Learn more about the history of one of Virginia's most well-known men in this biography by Dr. J. W. Jones, a contemporary of Lee. $21.00
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Life in an Eastern Woodland Indian Village
Learn more about the society and lifestyle of Eastern Native American tribes with this helpful booklet written by Helen C. Rountree. $15.95
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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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May I Quote You, General Lee?
This series of books shows the complexity of their thoughts and motivations, unfiltered by our modern preconceptions of what sort of people they were. $7.95
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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. $14.95
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The New World: Nightmare in Jamestown (DVD)
It's a story of bubonic plague, starvation, espionage and cannibalism—and the founding of America's first colony. $29.95
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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 Cemetary
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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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." $17.95
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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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