Library of Virginia Book Talk Event 10 February 2009 – Editors Mildred W. Robinson and Richard J. Bonnie offer an overview of the moving stories of those who attended public school soon after the Brown v. The Board of Education decision and saw the course of their lives and their society change. These personal accounts of how Brown affected them say much about race relations then and now. Robinson is Henry L. & Grace Doherty Charitable Foundation Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law. Bonnie is Harrison Foundation Professor of Medicine and Law, Hunton & Williams Research Professor, and director of the Institute of Law, Psychiatry & Public Policy at the University of Virginia.
Encyclopedia Virginia: The Blog
- The Crater on PBSThe Battle of the Crater will be examined on a PBS series: The tunnel that Union soldiers dug to blow a crater under Confederate defenses at Petersburg, Va., is not usually juxtaposed with, say, the Great Wall of China. But the Battle of the Crater makes the cut in the new PBS series “Ground War,” [...] […]brendanwolfe
Civil War History
- Review of So You Think You Know Gettysburg?Gindlesperger, James and Suzanne. So You Think You Know Gettysburg?: The Stories Behind the Monuments and the Men Who Fought One of America’s Most Epic Battles. Winston-Salem, NC: John F. Blair Publisher, 2010. This book is an interesting take at the park where the bloodiest battle on American soil occurred. While other books focus on [...] […]Daniel Sauerwein
