Readers of this discussion board will no doubt be interested in the
release of Brent Tarter's latest work, *Virginians and Their Histories*.

From The University of Virginia Press description:

Histories of Virginia have traditionally traced the same significant but
narrow lines, overlooking whole swathes of human experience crucial to an
understanding of the commonwealth. With *Virginians and Their Histories*,
Brent Tarter presents a fresh, new interpretive narrative that incorporates
the experiences of all residents of Virginia from the earliest times to the
first decades of the twenty-first century, affording readers the most
comprehensive and wide-ranging account of Virginia’s story.

Tarter draws on primary resources for every decade of the Old Dominion's
English-language history, as well as a wealth of recent scholarship that
illuminates in new ways how demographic changes, economic growth, social
and cultural changes, and religious sensibilities and gender relationships
have affected the manner in which Virginians have lived. *Virginians and
Their Histories* interweaves the experiences of Virginians of different
racial and ethnic backgrounds and classes, representing a variety of eras
and regions, to understand what they separately and jointly created, and
how they responded to economic, political, and social changes on a national
and even global level. That large context is essential for properly
understanding the influences of Virginians on, and the responses of
Virginians to, the constantly changing world in which they have lived.

This groundbreaking work of scholarship—generously illustrated and
engagingly written—will become the definitive account for general readers
and all students of Virginia’s diverse and vibrant history.


More information can be found at:
https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5250



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