Virginia, history/Bibliography

Surveys

 * Dabney, Virginius. Virginia: The New Dominion (1971)
 * Dinan, John. The Virginia State Constitution: A Reference Guide. Praeger, 2006. 258 pp.
 * Heinemann, Ronald L., John G. Kolp, Anthony S. Parent Jr., and William G. Shade, Old Dominion, New Commonwealth: A History of Virginia, 1607-2007 (2007). ISBN 978-0-8139-2609-4.
 * Salmon, Emily J., and Edward D.C. Campbell, Jr., eds. The Hornbook of Virginia history: A Ready-Reference Guide to the Old Dominion's People, Places, and Past 4th edition. (1994)
 * Tarter, Brent. "Making History in Virginia." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (2007) 115(1): 2-55. Issn: 0042-6636 Fulltext: in . Ebsco; historiography
 * Wallenstein, Peter. Cradle of America: Four Centuries of Virginia History (2007). ISBN 978-0-7006-1507-0.
 * WPA. Virginia: A Guide to the Old Dominion (1940)
 * Younger, Edward, and James Tice Moore, eds. The Governors of Virginia, 1860– 1978 (1982)

To 1860

 * Adams, Sean Patrick. Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America (2004)
 * Ambler, Charles H. Sectionalism in Virginia from 1776 to 1861 (1910)
 * Beeman, Richard R. The Old Dominion and the New Nation, 1788-1801 (1972)
 * Billings, Warren M., John E. Selby, and Thad W, Tate. Colonial Virginia: A History (1986)
 * Bond, Edward L. Damned Souls in the Tobacco Colony: Religion in Seventeenth-Century Virginia (2000),
 * Breen T. H. Puritans and Adventurers: Change and Persistence in Early America (1980). 4 chapters on colonial social history online edition
 * Breen, T. H. Tobacco Culture: The Mentality of the Great Tidewater Planters on the Eve of Revolution (1985)
 * Breen, T. H., and Stephen D. Innes. "Myne Owne Ground": Race and Freedom on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1640-1676 (1980)
 * Byrd, William. The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover, 1709-1712 (1941) ed by Louis B. Wright and Marion Tinling online edition
 * Bruce, Philip Alexander. Institutional History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century: An Inquiry into the Religious, Moral, Educational, Legal, Military, and Political Condition of the People, Based on Original and Contemporaneous Records (1910) online edition
 * Freeman, Douglas Southall; George Washington: A Biography Volume: 1-7. (1948). Pulitzer Prize. vol 1 online
 * Gleach; Frederic W. Powhatan's World and Colonial Virginia: A Conflict of Cultures University of Nebraska Press. 1997.
 * Isaac, Rhys. Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom: Revolution and Rebellion on a Virginia Plantation (2004)
 * Isaac, Rhys. The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 (1982, 1999)] Pulitzer Prize winner, dealing with religion and morality 	[online review
 * Lebsock, Suzanne D. A Share of Honour: Virginia Women, 1600-1945 (1984)
 * Majewski, John. A House Dividing: Economic Development in Pennsylvania and Virginia before the Civil War (2000)
 * Morgan, Edmund S. Virginians at Home: Family Life in the Eighteenth Century (1952). online edition
 * Morgan, Edmund S. American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia (1975) online edition highly influential study
 * Nelson, John A Blessed Company: Parishes, Parsons, and Parishioners in Anglican Virginia, 1690-1776 (2001)
 * Noe, Kenneth W. Southwest Virginia's Railroad: Modernization and the Sectional Crisis (1994)
 * Rasmussen, William M.S. and Robert S. Tilton. Old Virginia: The Pursuit of a Pastoral Ideal (2003)]
 * Risjord, Norman K. Chesapeake Politics, 1781-1800 (1978). in-depth coverage of Virginia, Maryland and North Carolinaonline edition
 * Roeber, A. G. Faithful Magistrates and Republican Lawyers: Creators of Virginia Legal Culture, 1680-1810 (1981)
 * Selby, John E. The Revolution in Virginia, 1775-1783 (1988)
 * Shade, William G. Democratizing the Old Dominion: Virginia and the Second Party System 1824-1861 (1996)
 * Shanks, Henry T. The Secession Movement in Virginia, 1847-1861 (1934) online edition
 * Simpson, Craig M. A Good Southerner: The Life of Henry A. Wise of Virginia (1985), wide-ranging political history
 * Varon; Elizabeth R. We Mean to Be Counted: White Women & Politics in Antebellum Virginia 1998
 * Wertenbaker, Thomas J. The Shaping of Colonial Virginia, comprising Patrician and Plebeian in Virginia (1910); Virginia under the Stuarts (1914); and The Planters of Colonial Virginia (1922)
 * Wright, Louis B. The First Gentlemen of Virginia: Intellectual Qualities of the Early Colonial Ruling Class (1964)
 * Wynes, Charles E. Race Relations in Virginia, 1870-1902 (1961)

Since 1861

 * Blair, William. Virginia's Private War: Feeding Body and Soul in the Confederacy, 1861-1865 (1998) online edition
 * Brundage, W. Fitzhugh. Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880–1930 (1993)
 * Buni, Andrew. The Negro in Virginia Politics, 1902–1965 (1967)
 * Crofts, Daniel W. Reluctant Confederates: Upper South Unionists in the Secession Crisis (1989)]
 * Ferrell, Henry C., Jr. Claude A. Swanson of Virginia: A Political Biography (1985) early 20th century
 * Gilliam, George H. "Making Virginia Progressive: Courts and Parties, Railroads and Regulators, 1890–1910." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 107 (Spring 1999): 189–222.
 * Heinemann, Ronald L. Depression and the New Deal in Virginia: The Enduring Dominion (1983)
 * Heinemann, Ronald L. Harry Byrd of Virginia(1996)
 * Heinemann, Ronald L. "Virginia in the Twentieth Century: Recent Interpretations." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 94 (April 1986): 131–60.
 * Kerr-Ritchie, Jeffrey R. Freedpeople in the Tobacco South: Virginia, 1860-1900 (1999)
 * Key, V. O., Jr. Southern Politics in State and Nation (1949), important chapter on Virginia in 1940s
 * Lassiter, Matthew D., and Andrew B. Lewis, eds. The Moderates’ Dilemma: Massive Resistance to School Desegregation in Virginia (1998)
 * Lebsock, Suzanne D. "A Share of Honor": Virginia Women, 1600-1945 (1984)
 * Link, William A. A Hard Country and a Lonely Place: Schooling, Society, and Reform in Rural Virginia, 1870-1920 (1986) online edition
 * Martin-Perdue, Nancy J., and Charles L. Perdue Jr., eds. Talk about Trouble: A New Deal Portrait of Virginians in the Great Depression (1996)
 * Moger, Allen W. Virginia: Bourbonism to Byrd, 1870-1925 (1968)
 * Muse, Benjamin. Virginia's Massive Resistance (1961)
 * Parramore, Thomas C., with Peter C. Stewart and Tommy L. Bogger. Norfolk: The First Four Centuries (1994)
 * Pulley, Raymond H. Old Virginia Restored: An Interpretation of the Progressive Impulse, 1870-1930 (1968) online edition
 * Smith, J. Douglas. Managing White Supremacy: Race, Politics, and Citizenship in Jim Crow Virginia (2002) online edition
 * Sweeney, James R. "Rum, Romanism, and Virginia Democrats: The Party Leaders and the Campaign of 1928" Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 90 (October 1982): 403–31.
 * Wilkinson, J. Harvie, III. Harry Byrd and the Changing Face of Virginia Politics, 1945–1966 (1968)
 * Wynes, Charles E. Race Relations in Virginia, 1870-1902 (1961)

Localities and regions

 * Lankford, Nelson. Richmond Burning: The Last Days of the Confederate Capital (2002)
 * Parramore, Thomas C., with Peter C. Stewart and Tommy L. Bogger. Norfolk: The First Four Centuries (1994)
 * Shiftlett, Crandall. Patronage and Poverty in the Tobacco South: Louisa County, Virginia, 1860-1900 (1982), new social history