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

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

From the formation of the first institutions of representative government and the use of slavery in the seventeenth century through the American Revolution, the

In this provocative reinterpretation of one of the best-known events in American history, Woody Holton shows that when Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and

A study of the migration patterns that characterized the colony and (later) state of Virginia over the three century history following its European founding. Di