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: 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 Although landscape pictures are no foolproof guide to Virginia's history, they are historical documents that, carefully scrutinized, yield historical insights as much as written documents or archaeological evidence...read more (view table of contents, read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: Illustrated here are handsome mansions, imposing courthouses, towering churches, giant flour mills, extravagant hotels, wooden grist mills, covered bridges, and humble cottages and outbuildings -- more than 300 structures lost to fire or demolition...read more