The dissolution of the ill-starred Virginia Company in 1624 left Virginia -- now England's first royal colony -- without a formal raison d'etre. Most historians

This collection of essays on seventeenth-century Virginia, the first such collection on the Chesapeake in nearly twenty-five years, highlights emerging directio

Combining mastery of existing scholarship with a fresh approach to new material, Born in the Country continues to define the field of American rural history.

This is a sweeping history of the relationship between law and religion in America from the colonial era to the present day.

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