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. $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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Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America
This fascinating book is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time. $34.95
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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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 American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865–1900
The bestselling author of two finalists for the Pulitzer Prize now captures the decades when capitalism was at its most unbridled and a few breathtakingly wealthy businessmen utterly transformed America from an agrarian economy to a world power. $35.00/$17.95
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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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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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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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 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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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 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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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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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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 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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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. $11.95
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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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 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 Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
An illuminating study of the intertwined lives of the founders of the American republic. $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. $14.99
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 A Generation of Warriors (VHS tape/DVD)
This documentary film tells the compelling stories of combat veterans.
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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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Gettysburg
This is the one book on Gettysburg that anyone interested in the Civil War should own. $17.00
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Jamestown Rediscovery 1994–2004
Eighth in a series on APVA's historical and archaeological research. $19.95
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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. $19.95
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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. $16.00
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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 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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Marching to Victory: Captain Benjamin Bartholomew's Diary of the Yorktown Campaign, May 1781 to March 1782
Bartholomew's diary reveals the remarkable saga of a revolutionary warrior. $7.95
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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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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 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 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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 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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Pocahontas' Descendants
This definitive edition carries the descendants of Pocahontas and John Rolfe down to the present time and includes the two volumes of corrections and additions of 1992 and 1994, resulting in a consolidated volume containing over 30,000 names!. $67.95
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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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 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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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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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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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 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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 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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 Virginia Silversmiths, Their Lives and Marks
Containing 1,798 biographies of Virginia artisans plus references outside of Virginia, and more than 930 photographs of marks used by 324 Virginia silversmiths, this book is a must for collectors, curators, decorative arts historians, and genealogists. $100.00
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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: 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 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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 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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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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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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