New Books – September 2026

We are American Citizens: The Colored Conventions Movement and the Long Struggle for Civil Rights

By Claire Bourhis-Mariotti

Flight of the WASP: The Rise, Fall, and Future of America's Original Ruling Class

By Michael Gross

Stealing America: The Hidden Story of Indigenous Slavery in US History

By Linford D. Fisher

From Enslavement to COVID-19: A History of African American Health and Labor

By Joe William Trotte Jr.

A Songbook of Slavery and Emancipation

Fighting with the Past: How Seventeenth-Century History Shaped the American Civil War

By Aaron Charles Sheehan-Dean

This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis & Clark

By Craig Fehrman

Thy Will Be Done: George Washington's Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory

By John Garrison Marks

Under the Guise of Protection: Eugenics and Wayward Girls in Twentieth-Century Virginia

By Erin N. Bush.

Southern Appalachian Folkways: Preserving Traditional Arts and Crafts

By Bob Plott

Birds of the Chesapeake Bay

By Howard Youth

Out of Virginia: Black Americans' Search for Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Liberia

By Joseph P. Stinnett

God and the Generals: The Story of Christ Church, Alexandria, Virginia.

By Charlene Smith-Riedel

Stitching Together History: 250 Quilts Commemorating the Commonwealth of Virginia.

By Mary W. Kerr and Donna Marcinkowski DeSoto

Rebirth: Creating the Museum of the Reconstruction Era and the Future of the House Museum

By Jennifer Whitmer Taylor

Son of the Secret Service: A Memoir

By Clint McCown

Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home

By Stephen Starring Grant

The Bones Beneath My Skin

By TJ Klune

Keeper of Lost Children

By Sadeqa Johnson

Species

By Jessica L. Conley.

Analog Synthesis: Poems

By Christopher Fried