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The Grandees of Government: The Origins and Persistence of Undemocratic Politics in Virginia

Brent Tarter

Offering a thorough reevaluation of the interrelationship between the words and actions of Virginia’s political leaders, The Grandees of Government provides an entirely new interpretation of Virginia’s political history.

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A Saga of the New South: Race, Law, and Public Debt in Virginia

Brent Tarter

In the lead-up to the Civil War, Virginia amassed a large public debt while striving to improve transportation infrastructure and stimulate economic development. A Saga of the New South delves…

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Daydreams and Nightmares: A Virginia Family Faces Secession and War

Brent Tarter

In this intimate, evocative, and often heartbreaking family story, we see up close the personal costs of our larger national history.A Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War

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Gerrymanders: How Redistricting Has Protected Slavery, White Supremacy, and Partisan Minorities in Virginia

Brent Tarter

Many are aware that gerrymandering exists and suspect it plays a role in elections, but its history goes far deeper, and its impacts are far greater, than most realise. In…

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Virginians and Their Histories

Brent Tarter

Histories of Virginia have traditionally traced the same significant but narrow lines, overlooking whole swathes of human experience crucial to an understanding of the commonwealth. With this book, Brent Tarter…

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Constitutional History of Virginia

Brent Tarter

This is the only modern comprehensive constitutional history of any state, and as a history of Virgina, it is one of the oldest and most complex. Brent Tarter's Constitutional History…

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Daydreams and Nightmares: A Virginia Family Faces Seccession and War

Brent Tarter

The decision of the eventual Confederate states to secede from the Union set in motion perhaps the most dramatic chapter in American history, and one that has typically been told…

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Justice for Ourselves

John G. Deal, Marianne E. Julienne, Brent Tarter

Tells the stories of remarkable Black men and women in post-Civil War Virginia who persevered in the face of overwhelming barriers to seek their freedom and create a new world…

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Esteemed Bookes of Lawe: and the Legal Culture of Early Virginia

Focusing on the law books that colonial Virginians acquired, how they used them, and how they eventually produced a native-grown legal literature, this collection of essays explores important aspects of…

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Campaign for Woman Suffrage in Virginia

Brent Tarter,Marianne E Julienne,Barbara C Batson

In 1920, Virginia’s General Assembly refused to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution to grant women the vote. Virginia’s suffragists lost. Or did they? When the thirty-sixth…

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The Campaign for Woman Suffrage in Virginia

Brent Tarter,Marianne E Julienne,Barbara C Batson

In 1920, Virginia’s General Assembly refused to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution to grant women the vote. Virginia’s suffragists lost. Or did they? When the thirty-sixth…

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