An official companion guide to the nationally touring exhibition commemorating the 400th anniversaries of the founding of Jamestown, Québec, and Santa Fe offers coverage of how each community interacted with Native Americans; traces their respective political, social, economic, and religious systems; and profiles 150 rare examples of seventeenth-century artifacts.

A retrospective study of the work of Robert Knox Sneden continues with this publication of hundreds more images from the Union cartographer's collection of Civil War sketches, engravings, and maps.

A retrospective study of the work of Robert Knox Sneden continues with this publication of hundreds more images from the Union cartographer's amazing collection of Civil War sketches, engravings, and maps. 75,000 first printing.

Product Description: Foreword by Director of the Virginia Historical Society Charles F. Bryan, Jr. This is the story of Virginia as told through the work of landscape artists. Although landscape pictures are no foolproof guide to Virginia's history, they are historical documents that, carefully scrutinized, yield historical insights as much as written documents or archaeological evidence...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Bound Away offers a new understanding of the westward movement. After the Turner thesis which celebrated the frontier as the source of American freedom and democracy, and the iconoclasm of the new western historians who dismissed the idea of the frontier as merely a mask for conquest and exploitation, David Hackett Fischer and James C...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: An essential reference for anyone interested in Southern art.