New Books – July 2026

The Maps of Second Bull Run: An Atlas of the Second Bull Run (Manassas) Campaign from the Formation of the Army of Virginia through the Battle of Chantilly, June 26 - September 1, 1862

By Bradley M. Gottfried

Landscapes of Freedom: Restoring the History of Emancipation and Citizenship in Yorktown, Virginia, 1861-1940

By Rebecca Capobianco Toy

Protest and Pedagogy: Charlottesville's Black Freedom Struggle and the Making of the American High School

By Alexander D. Hyres

Queer Virginia: New Stories in the Old Dominion

Mineral Waters and Pure Mountain Air: Lesser-Known Health Resorts of Southern Appalachia, 1800-1940

By Mary F. Fanslow

The Ghostly Tales of Haunted Coastal Virginia

By Joe Tennis and Abigail Tennis

Short of a Revolution: The Fusion Insurgency and the Triumph of Jim Crow in North Carolina

By Craig Thurtell

John Yates Beall, Son of the South: The Life and Death of a Confederate Privateer

By Kenneth P. Lizzio

Peculiar Satisfaction: Thomas Jefferson and the Mastery of Subjects

By Melissa Adler

Black Narratives of Slavery: A Very Short Introduction

By Robert J. Patterson

Nine o'clock Whistle: Stories of the Freedom Struggle for Civil Rights in Enfield, North Carolina

By Willa Cofield

The Evolution of a Rural Free Black Community: Goochland County, Virginia, 1728-1832

By Reginald D. Butler

Barbary Entanglements: Realizing American Independence on the World Stage

By John M. Chamberlin

Archival Communities : Constructing the Past in the Early United States

By Derek Kane O'Leary

Appalachian Nursing: A history, 1890-1960

By Sharon Loury

The Pay-back Girls

By Alex Travis

Jerry and Rodrigo Go to War: A Novel

By Steven Salaita

Morning of the World: Poems

By Jane M. Wiseman