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Brownell, Charles E., and others, eds. The Making of Virginia Architecture. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1992. A well-illustrated history.

Frye, Keith. Roadside Geology of Virginia. Mountain Press, 1986. Handy guide for tourists and residents.

Jefferson, Thomas. Notes on the State of Virginia. Ed. Frank Shuffleton. Penguin, 1998. Abridged reprint of Jefferson's 1781 account, written during his first term as governor.

Johnson, Clint. Touring Virginia's and West Virginia's Civil War Sites. Blair, 1999. A solid guidebook for battlesite tourists.

Jordan, Ervin L., Jr. Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia. University Press of Virginia, 1995. Comprehensive portrait.

Kelly, James C., and William M.S. Rasmussen. Virginia Landscapes: A Cultural History. Howell, 2000. Virginia as seen the works of its landscape artists.

Larson, Chiles T.A. Virginia's Past Today. Howell, 1998. A photographic collection showing vestiges of Virginia's past.

Morgan, Edmund Sears. American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia. Reprint, Norton, 1995. The evolution of slavery in colonial Virginia; first published in 1975.

Noel Hume, Ivor. Martin's Hundred. University Press of Virginia, 1991. Archaeological discoveries at the site of a 17th-century plantation in Virginia.

Powers, J. Tracy. Lee's Miserables: Life in the Army of Northern Virginia from the Wilderness to Appomattox. University of North Carolina Press, 1998. A powerful history of the final year of the Civil War in Virginia.

Riordan, Robert M., ed., for The Nature Conservancy. Uncommon Wealth: Essays on Virginia's Wild Places. Falcon, 1999. Collection of 20 essays by noted Virginia nature writers, essayists, and journalists.

Stevenson, Brenda E. Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South. Oxford University Press, 1996. Includes a fresh look at slave families.

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