Geography & Environment
Geography has played a pivotal role in the evolution of Virginia’s politics, society and economy. A mild climate and navigable rivers first attracted Indigenous peoples and later provided European settlers access to ports and harbors from which to export coal and lumber from the Shenandoah Valley and Appalachian Plateau.
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Before We Went Underground and Wireless…
Audubon's The Birds of America
What Are the Five Physical Regions of Virginia’s Geography?
Virginia Landscapes: Sublime & Picturesque
A Landscape Saved: The Garden Club of Virginia at 100
Murals Inspired by the Story of Virginia
A House Built of Virginia Stone
The History of Virginia's Natural Bridge: "So Beautiful an Arch"
Oysters in Virginia
The Regions of Virginia
"That part of America, now called Virginia"
Why is there a West Virginia?
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The Story of Virginia: Highlights from the Virginia Museum of History & Culture
The Story of Virginia tells a fascinating story, sharing more than four hundred evocative objects from the Virginia Museum of History & Culture. The Commonwealth is not merely a chapter of U.S. history; it is at the epicenter of its most pivotal moments.
A Landscape Saved: The Garden Club of Virginia at 100
This book serves as a succinct history of the Garden Club of Virginia since its founding in 1920. Included are restorations of historic gardens, member club activities, Historic Garden Week in Virginia and the Centennial project with Virginia State Parks.
Conserving the Commonwealth: The Early Years of the Environmental Movement in Virginia
This history by Margaret T. Peters describes the earliest days of Virginia's environmental movement, recounting the efforts of a farsighted group of leaders to preserve Virginia's priceless resources--open land, waterways, and historic sites--and to create new parks within reach of all the state's citizens.
Transforming the James River in Richmond
Local author and lifelong river watcher Ralph Hambrick chronicles the events, projects, and controversies that brought about the dramatic change and lends a critical eye to the results.
You Need a Schoolhouse: Booker T Washington, Julius Rosenwald, and the Building of Schools for the Segregated South
Stephanie Deutsch offers a fascinating glimpse into the partnership that would bring thousands of modern schoolhouses to African American communities in the rural South in the era leading up to the civil rights movement.
Arrival of the First Africans
Historian Ric Murphy documents a fascinating story of colonialism, treason, piracy, kidnapping, enslavement and British law, in his book about the kidnapping of 32 African men, women and children from Kabasa, Angola and their arrival in Jamestown.
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