Va-Hist subscribers will recall that a couple of years ago we did an
informal poll to ascertain who we historians regarded as the greatest
Virginians.

The Commentary section of the Richmond Times-Dispatch for Sunday, 9
December 2007, and each of the succeeding three Sundays contains the
results of a survey that Cordel Faulk, editor of the Times-Dispatch
Commentary Section, and I, of the Library of Virginia, conducted of a
wide variety of historians and public officials to ascertain who in each
of the first four centuries of the English-language portion of
Virginia's history were regarded as the greatest and also the most
influential people.

The first installments can be viewed at

http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/opinion/commentary.html

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