Excerpt from Essay: History as Imagination, James Axtell
Historical Fiction: Sea to Shining Sea, James Alexander Thom
Historical Fiction: Little Women, Louisa M. Alcott
Professional Historians:
Stonewall Jackson, James I. Robertson
Jefferson’s Women, Jon Kukla
History as Inspiration – Letters, Diaries, Court House Records:
Travels in America, Marquis de Chastelux
Repairing the March of Mars – Civil War Diaries of Dr. John S. Apperson
The Diaries of James Armistead Otey
Children’s Textbooks:
Virginia’s History (1956)
Heroes of the American Revolution (1971)
Recent Scholarship:
First People: The Early Indians of Virginia, Keith Egloff & Deborah Woodward
Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America
Bound Away: Virginia and the Westward Movement
Cradle of America: Four Centuries of Virginia History
Children’s Fiction:
The Coffin Quilt: Feud Between the Hatfield’s and McCoys”
Or Give Me Death: A Novel of Patrick Henry’s Family
Teaching Virginia History – Then & Now
Lynchburg: A City Set on Seven Hills, by Clifton Potter & Dorothy Potter
Virginia History for Yankees & Other Outsiders (slideshow):