William Byrd II (1674-1744) was an important figure in the history of colonial Virginia: a founder of Richmond, an active participant in Virginia politics, and

After his 1728 Virginia-North Carolina boundary expedition, Virginia planter and politician William Byrd II composed two very different accounts of his adventur

Dividing Line Histories of William Byrd II of Westover

Few if any are better endowed than George Garrett to comment on the general and the particular, the long and the short, of southern letters in our time. Garrett

After humble beginnings as faltering British colonies, the United States acquired astonishing wealth and power as the result of what we now refer to as moderniz