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American Slavery, American Freedom Best Price: $11.13 This very well written and researched book is an effort to answer a single interesting question;...	In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life Best Price: $7.85 I enjoyed Deetz' newly updated introduction to Historical Archaeology in America. He makes clear...	A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation Best Price: $7.20 Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs are among a handful of former slaves in the Old South who...	Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Start of a New Nation Best Price: $8.85 After finishing Joseph Ellis' Washington and Jefferson books in the past week, I was in the mood...	Anne Orthwood's Bastard: Sex and Law in Early Virginia Best Price: $17.95 This incisive work illuminates Virginia's colonial history in personal detail: legal procedures,...



Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia (Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture) Best Price: $14.75 Woody Holton, in his book Forced Founders Indians, Debtors, Slaves and the Making of the...	Firefight: Inside the Battle to Save the Pentagon on 9/11 Best Price: $12.97 When American Airlines Flight 77 hit the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, local firefighters were...	"Myne Owne Ground": Race and Freedom on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1640-1676 Best Price: $20.00 I read this book for my college history class. It was a great look into a society that we know...	Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia Best Price: $19.75 And schizophrenic. Parts of the book are interesting. Parts of the book that should be...	Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson Best Price: $13.00 In Twilight at Monticello, I was looking for an accessible portrait of Thomas Jefferson the...



The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family Best Price: $23.10 "Pathbreaking....and very moving" (Edmund S. Morgan)the multigenerational...	Thomas Jefferson on Wine Best Price: $20.00 Good read. This book provided an historical perspective I had not been exposed to before. The...	The Jamestown Project Best Price: $16.40 Ordering books through Amazon is my favorite shopping method. One of my ancestors came to...	Where Valor Rests: Arlington National Cemetery Best Price: $3.98 A beautiful tribute to those who have given their lives for our country. The pictures chosen...	The Taste of Country Cooking: 30th Anniversary Edition Best Price: $12.99 After having purchased Miss Edna's book with Scott Peacock, I was sure I needed this one too - I...

Sarah Johnson's Mount Vernon: The Forgotten History of an American Shrine Best Price: $16.22 We found this book to very interesting and very detailed. Scott Casper's research was superb!	MAJOR GENERAL ROBERT E RODES OF THE ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA: A Biography Best Price: $21.73 "If he could," author Darrell Collins writes, "Rodes might object to being the...	The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia) Best Price: $15.00 Eighteenth-century Virginian gentry had established a society, complete with imported styles and...	Cradle of America: Four Centuries of Virginia History Best Price: $18.77 This is really a book about the history of race and race relations in Virginia -- with, as...	Journey Through Hallowed Ground: Birthplace of the American Ideal Best Price: $21.76 Along the 175-mile stretch from Monticello to Gettysburgdesignated by Congress as the...

Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia) Best Price: $24.75 Morgan's analysis will give anyone who wants to know more about slavery an immense amount of...	Wade Hampton: Confederate Warrior to Southern Redeemer (Civil War America) Best Price: $25.08 After a dearth of many years, four biographies of southern soldier and politician Wade Hampton...	Gabriel's Rebellion: The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 and 1802 Best Price: $16.16 It is so refreshing to read a work by an academic historian that has clear points laid out in...	Nat Turner Book 2: Revolution (Nat Turner) Best Price: $5.13 The devastating climax to one of the most important comic books of all time! Nat Turner wages...	The C&O Canal Companion Best Price: $10.51 I organized and led our high school youth group (23 people) for a week long ride on the trail. ...

Tobacco Culture: The Mentality of the Great Tidewater Planters on the Eve of Revolution. Best Price: $17.95 The agricultural origins of Americans' habits of revolution, even their habits of being...	The River Where America Began: A Journey Along the James Best Price: $12.43 This history book was very informative. I was born in the area. Very detailed summary of...	Thomas Jefferson's Monticello Best Price: $29.38 Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, an essay in architecture, takes readers on a historical tour of...	Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown Best Price: $7.41 This genre, the slave narrative, created by fugitive slaves, is one that I knew nothing about,...	American Slavery American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia Best Price: $43.86 This comprehensive history of early Virginia persuasively argues that slavery and racism...

Salt Tide: Cycles and Currents of Life Along the Mid-Atlantic Coast Best Price: $4.40 This book was extremly enjoyable to read. Cutis Badger opens his heart in several chapters,...	The Hidden Galleon: The true story of a lost Spanish ship and the legendary wild horses of Assateague Island Best Price: $21.75 The book was way too long and overrun with facts that the average reader does not need. The...	Notes on the State of Virginia (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $8.26 I'm preparing the CAPES (French Certificate to teach English to 11 - 18 year olds) and...	Notorious in the Neighborhood: Sex and Families across the Color Line in Virginia, 1787-1861 Best Price: $25.00 Joshua Rothman's "Notorious in the Neighborhood: Sex and Families across the Color Line in...	Thunder In the Mountans: The West Virginia Mine War, 1920-21 Best Price: $13.45 This is one of those historical events that is kind of overlooked for various reasons perhaps...

Managing White Supremacy: Race, Politics, and Citizenship in Jim Crow Virginia Best Price: $25.00 Excellent book. Every Southerner--no, every American--should read this book. Smith has done us...	The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century: A Documentary History of Virginia, 1606-1700 Best Price: $22.80 This book attempts to provide a documentary history of early Virginia. To a large extent it...	Williamsburg Before and After: The Rebirth of Virginia's Colonial Capital Best Price: $14.95 As a big fan of Colonial Williamsburg, I purchased this book years ago. The story of the...	Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680-1800 Best Price: $27.50 I bought this book for a research project I was working on for my history class, and I never...	Foul Means: The Formation of a Slave Society in Virginia, 1660-1740 (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia) Best Price: $25.00 Those who have a passion for understanding the often complex, and sometimes, ambiguous,...

George Washington : Writings (Library of America) Best Price: $18.00 All too often, George Washington comes across as a monument rather than a person. As the...	The Official Virginia Civil War Battlefield Guide Best Price: $17.85 If you are familiar with either or both of the two editions of the excellent "Civil War...	Jamestown, the Buried Truth Best Price: $17.49 For many years, archeologists believed that Jamestown, the site of the first permanent English...	The Origins of Proslavery Christianity: White and Black Evangelicals in Colonial and Antebellum Virginia Best Price: $22.45 Dr. Irons is a professor of history at Elon University in North Carolina, and as a student, I...	Sally Hemings & Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture (Jeffersonian America) Best Price: $16.21 If Herbert Barger gives this book a negative rating then that means it's good. Herbert has a...

Journey Through Hallowed Ground: A Travel Guide of Heritage Sites from Gettysburg to Monticello (Capital Travels) (Capital Travels) Best Price: $12.31 I saw this book at Oatlands Plantation during the holidays. I think it's a great guide for...	Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom: Revolution and Rebellion on a Virginia Plantation Best Price: $6.12 I read this book while on vacation at Colonial Williamsburg, Virgina. It would be hard to...	Bound Away: Virginia and the Westward Movement Best Price: $20.11 I didn't think Bound Away was that good. The topic sounded interesting and David Hackett...	Retreat from Gettysburg: Lee, Logistics, and the Pennsylvania Campaign (Civil War America) Best Price: $19.99 I am behind the curve ball here as I write this review after so many good ones have already been...	Martha Washington's Booke of Cookery and Booke of Sweetmeats Best Price: $24.94 I stumbled upon this book when I was visiting Mt. Vernon for the first time a few years ago. It...

The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Best Price: $0.99 Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 ?" July 4, 1826) was the third President of the...	Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown Best Price: $10.49 I am fortunate to have read four excellent books on the Pocahontas / John Smith story. As I...	Gettysburg--The Second Day Best Price: $16.62 Few people can do an in-depth study of July 2, 1863 that is both readable and detailed. This...	The World They Made Together: Black and White Values in Eighteenth-Century Virginia Best Price: $18.99 Substantially, I agree with the other reviewer. Sobel argues successfully that there existed in...

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