Recently added articles from The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography:
From the Ashes of the Old Dominion: Accommodation, Immediacy, and Progressive Pragmatism in John Mercer Langston's Virginia
Jan 01, 2009; ... Arriving in Memphis, Tennessee, in June 1894, former congressman John Mercer Langsten voiced his antipathy to the message of antilynching crusader Ida B. Wells, stating that: "I do not know Ida Wells personally, but I certainly don't uphold her views concerning the condition of our people in the ...
The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America
Jan 01, 2009; ... The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America * John Fea * Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008 * via, 270 pp. * $39.95 Historians of colonial and revolutionary Virginia probably know Philip Vickers Fithian best ...
"To Educate, Agitate, and Legislate": Baptists, Methodists, and the Anti-Saloon League of Virginia, 1901-1910
Jan 01, 2009; ... On 4 June 1907, temperance forces in Charlottesville celebrated their forty-vote local option prohibition victory. The mood was festive, and a spirit of denominational unity permeated the gathering. As the Charlottesville Daily Progress noted, Tremendous applause was followed by ...
Pocahontas, Little Wanton: Myth, Life, and Afterlife
Jan 01, 2009; ... Pocahontas, Little Wanton: Myth, Life, and Afterlife * Neil Rennie * London: Quaritch, 2007 * xii, 210 pp. · $110.00 Neil Rennie's study of Pocahontas attempts to tackle two jobs usually done by different scholars in separate venues: recounting what is reliably known about Pocahontas's ...
The Long Farewell: Americans Mourn the Death of George Washington
Jan 01, 2009; ... The Long Farewell: Americans Mourn the Death of George Washington * Gerald E. Kahler * Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008 * xii, 190 pp. * $30.00 Americans grieved at the news of the unexpected death of George Washington in December 1799, and many were concerned, even ...