New Books – April 2025 – The UncommonWealth

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To Rescue the Constitution: George Washington and the Fragile American Experiment

By Bret Baier

Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery

By Seth Rockman

Backroads & Byways of Virginia: Drives, Day Trips & Weekend Excursions

By Bill Lohmann

Our Quaker Ancestors: Finding Them in Quaker Records

By Ellen T. Berry

Searching for Jimmy Strother: A Tale of Music, Murder, and Memory

By Gregg D. Kimball

Appalachian Mountain Christianity: The spirituality of Otherness

By Bill Leonard

The Making of Twenty-First-Century Richmond: Politics, Policy, and Governance, 1988-2016

By Thad Williamson

The Other Side of Disappearing

By Kate Clayborn

Cost of Living: Poems & Nonfiction

By Brenna Womer

Williamsburg at War: Virginia’s Colonial Capital in the Revolutionary War / Michael Cecere
The Ultimate Guide in Researching War of 1812 Veterans / Eric E. Johnson
Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America / Leslie A. Schwalm
Destiny Speaks: The Spanish American War and Philippine Insurrection 1898-1901 / Suzanne Meredith
The Changing Political South: How Minorities and Women are Transforming the Region / Charles S. Bullock
On the Brink of Change: The Historical Geography of Fairfax County, Virginia–c. 1960 / Shelley S. Mastran
Coast Guard in Hampton Roads / Christopher Miller
Necessary Trouble: Growing up at Midcentury / Drew Gilpin Faust
Library Services and Incarceration: Recognizing Barriers, Strengthening Access / Jeanie Austin
Secret Appalachian Highlands: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure / Robert Sorrell
A History of Mechanicsburg, Bland County, Virginia / Robert Hetherington
Dunkard’s Hollow / M. K. B. Graham
Half Full, Half Empty, or, Just a Glass of Unpredictable Life / Harold Whisman

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