Search Results for: The Old Dominion And The New Nation

This comprehensive study—an honorable mention in the 1971 Frederick Jackson Turner Award competition— traces the emergence and development of the Republican

"On the morning of 26 April 1607, three small ships carrying 143 Englishmen arrived off the Virginia coast of North America, having spent four months at sea....

"By examining how ordinary Virginia citizens grappled with the vexing problem of slavery in a society dedicated to universal liberty, Eva Sheppard Wolf broadens

Places the antebellum debate over slavery and states' rights in the context of early discussions of the two-party system and economic development by founding fa

A look at the role of state policies in North-South economic divergence and in American industrial development leading up to the Civil War. In 1796, famed engin