As the site of the first permanent English settlement in North America, the birthplace of a presidential dynasty, and the gateway to western growth in the natio

This History explores the development of literary culture in Virginia from the founding of Jamestown to the twenty-first century.

While in London in 1705, Robert Beverley wrote and published The History and Present State of Virginia, one of the earliest printed English-language histories a

Histories of Virginia have traditionally traced the same significant but narrow lines, overlooking whole swathes of human experience crucial to an understanding