In Under the Cover of Kindness, Leslie Margolin looks at how this country's social welfare system developed and with what results. From his detailed examination...
This volume brings together sixteen essays on the American Revolution by leading historian Jack Greene. Originally published between 1972 and the early nineties, these essays...
After the War of 1812 the United States remained a cultural and economic satellite of the worlds most powerful empire. Though political independence had been...
After The War Of 1812 The United States Remained A Cultural And Economic Satellite Of The Worlds Most Powerful Empire. Though Political Independence Had Been...
In Vigilant Faith: Passionate Agnosticism in a Secular World, Daniel Boscaljon takes up the contemporary challenges to faith by skepticism and secularism. He proposes a...
The days of choosing between a handful of imports and a convenience store sixpack are long gone. The beer landscape in America has changed dramatically...
Climate disruption is often discussed on a global scale, affording many a degree of detachment from what is happening in their own backyards. Yet the...
What do devil dogs, witches, haunted houses, Daniel Boone, Railroad Bill, 'Justice John' Crutchfield, and lost silver mines have in common? All are among the...
What do devil dogs, witches, haunted houses, Daniel Boone, Railroad Bill, 'Justice John' Crutchfield, and lost silver mines have in common? All are among the...
In their introduction to Virginia Reconsidered, Kevin Hardwick and Warren Hofstra note that 'Virginias history is powerfully situated, in both the popular and the scholarly...
In their introduction to Virginia Reconsidered, Kevin Hardwick and Warren Hofstra note that 'Virginias history is powerfully situated, in both the popular and the scholarly...
Fair warning to all of Virginias couch potatoes: Curtis Badger has compiled such an engaging and refreshingly unconventional treasury of outdoor adventures that you may...
Fair warning to all of Virginias couch potatoes: Curtis Badger has compiled such an engaging and refreshingly unconventional treasury of outdoor adventures that you may...
For most of the colonial period, Virginias spiritual landscape was thoroughly dominated by the Church of England, which enjoyed a legal, and virtually unchallenged, monopoly...
Many Visitors Over The Generations Have Recorded Their Impressions Of Monticello And Its Creator. These Writings, Especialy Those From Jefferson'S Lifetime, Preserve Important Details About...
Many visitors over the generations have recorded their impressions of Monticello and its creator. These writings, especialy those from Jefferson's lifetime, preserve important details about...
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Product DescriptionWhy has the medievalist impulse as manifested in an attraction to the traditions of courtly love and chivalry been ignored or marginalized in the...
The Mind of a Patriot presents an intellectual life of a major figure who has traditionally been seen as an antiintellectual 'child of nature.' This...
The Mind of a Patriot presents an intellectual life of a major figure who has traditionally been seen as an antiintellectual 'child of nature.' This...
In 1958, facing courtordered integration, Virginia governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. closed public schools in three cities, one of the first instances of the 'massive...
In The Modern Portrait Poem, Frances Dickey recovers the portrait as a poetic genre from the 1860s through the 1920s. Combining literary and art history,...
What Role Did Chinese Art Play In The Poetic Development Of Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, And Wallace Stevens? How Could They Share Chinese Artists Dao,...
To many Westerners, the disappearance of African traditions of witchcraft might seem inevitable wuth continued modernization. In The Modernity of Witchcraft, Peter Geschieres uses his...
The late nineteenth and early twentieth century were a brutal time for American wildlife, with many species pushed to the brink of extinction. (Some are...
Between 1737 and 1746, James Knighta merchant, planter, and sometime Crown official and legislator in Jamaicawrote a massive twovolume history of the island. The first...
Considered a wonder of the ancient world, the Newark Earthworksthe gigantic geometrical mounds of earth built nearly two thousand years ago in the Ohio valleyhave...
The statesman and reformer James Oglethorpe was a significant figure in the philosophical and political landscape of eighteenthcentury British America. His social contributionsall informed by...
George Washingtons life has been scrutinized by historians over the past three centuries, but the daytoday lives of Mount Vernons enslaved workers, who left few...
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