New Books - May 2025

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Pleasure Grounds of Death: The Rural Cemetery in Nineteenth-Century America

By Joy M. Giguere

Coal, Cages, Crisis: The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia

By Judah Nathan Schept

How Sweet It Is: Defending the American Dream

By Winsome Earle-Sears

Serpent in Eden: Foreign Meddling and Partisan Politics in James Madison's America

By Tyson Reeder

The Key to the Shenandoah Valley: Geography and the Civil War Struggle for Winchester

By Edward B. McCaul, Jr.

Recreation without Humiliation: Black Leisure in the Twentieth-Century South

By Mary Stanton

Plain Paths and Dividing Lines: Navigating Native Land and Water in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake

By Jessica Taylor

Becoming Baba Yaga: Trickster, Feminist, and Witch of the Woods

By Kris Spisak

Joy Rides through the Tunnel of Grief: A Memoir

By Jessica Hendry Nelson

The Many Resurrections of Henry Box Brown / Martha J. Cutter
Between Heaven and Russia: Religious Conversion and Political Apostasy in Appalachia / Sarah Riccardi-Swartz
I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise: A Life of Bunny Mellon / Mac Griswold
Yankees in the Hill City: The Union Prisoner of War Camp in Lynchburg, Virginia, 1862-1865 / Clifton W. Potter
Love & Duty: Confederate Widows and the Emotional Politics of Loss / Angela Esco Elder
Monumental Controversies: Mount Rushmore, Four Presidents, and the Quest for National Unity / Harriet Senie
Who Murdered Lizzie?: My Family Story of the Brutal Crime of 1884 that Shocked the City of Roanoke, Virginia / Denise B. Tanaka
The Norfolk Southern Christiansburg District: A Modern Mountain Railroad / Daniel Alls
Getting Jefferson Right: Fact-Checking Claims about Thomas Jefferson / Warren Throckmorton
Drastic Dykes and Accidental Activists: Queer Women in the Urban South / La Shonda Mims
Administering Freedom: The State of Emancipation after the Freedmen’s Bureau / Dale Kretz
Tangled Fortunes: The Hidden History of Interracial Marriage in the Segregated South / Kathryn Schumaker
Roses in December: Black Life in Hanover County from Civil War to Civil Rights / Jody Lynn Allen

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