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 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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 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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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 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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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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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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 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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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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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 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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 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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