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Blue laws and Black codes conflict, courts, and change in twentieth-century Virginia / by Wallenstein, Peter

Table of Contents: “…The case of the laborer from Louisa : conscripts, convicts, and public roads, 1890s-1920s -- Necessity, charity, and a sabbath : citizens, courts, and Sunday closing laws, 1920s-1980s -- These new and strange beings : race, sex, and the legal profession, 1870s-1970s -- The siege against segregation : Black Virginians and the law of civil rights -- To sit or not to sit : scenes in Richmond from the civil rights movement -- Racial identity and the crime of marriage : the view from twentieth-century Virginia -- Power and policy in an American state : federal courts, political rights, and policy outcomes -- From Harry Byrd to Douglas Wilder : gender, race, and judgeships.…”
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How to start a business in Maryland, Virginia or the District of Columbia by Burk, James E.

Subjects: “…Business enterprises Law and legislation Maryland Popular works.…”
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View of the Constitution of the United States with selected writings / by Tucker, St. George, 1752-1827

Subjects: “…Common law United States.…”
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Three generations, no imbeciles : eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell / by Lombardo, Paul A.

Table of Contents: “…Problem families -- Sex and surgery -- The pedigree factory -- Studying sterilization -- The Mallory case -- Laughlin's book -- A Virginia sterilization law -- Choosing Carrie Buck -- Carrie Buck versus Dr. …”
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Anne Orthwood's bastard sex and law in early Virginia / by Pagan, John Ruston

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Brabbling women disorderly speech and the law in early Virginia / by Snyder, Terri L., 1956-

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The grandees of government : the origins and persistence of undemocratic politics in Virginia / by Tarter, Brent, 1948-

Subjects: “…African Americans Legal status, laws, etc. Virginia History.…”
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Notorious in the neighborhood sex and families across the color line in Virginia, 1787-1861 / by Rothman, Joshua D.

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The great catastrophe of my life divorce in the Old Dominion / by Buckley, Thomas E., 1939-

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Transculturality and perceptions of the immigrant other "from-heres" and ''come-heres" in Virginia and North Rhine-Westphalia /

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Sexuality, politics, and social control in Virginia, 1920-1945 by Holloway, Pippa

Subjects: “…Sexually transmitted diseases Law and legislation Virginia History 20th century.…”
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Almost free a story about family and race in antebellum Virginia / by Wolf, Eva Sheppard, 1969-

Subjects: “…African Americans Legal status, laws, etc. Virginia History 19th century.…”
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Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia : Powhatan People and the Color Line / by Feller, Laura J. (Laura Janet)

Table of Contents: “…"A Home in a Strange Land" -- Virginia's 1924 "Racial Integrity" Law -- Constructing Native Identities, 1865 to 1931 -- White Ethnographers and Salvage Ethnography -- The Aftermath of the "Racial Integrity" Law, 1930s to 1950s.…”
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The last battle of the Civil War United States versus Lee, 1861-1883 / by Gaughan, Anthony J., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : creatures of the law -- A party in interest -- A shocking and abhorrent proposition -- The privilege of paying by the hands of another -- Ready again to meet the traitorous foe -- The natural feebleness of the judiciary -- A reproach to american jurisprudence -- We are all union men now -- No man is above the law -- The passions of the war in a tribunal of justice.…”
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Hospital transports a memoir of the embarkation of the sick and wounded from the peninsula of Virginia in the summer of 1862 /

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An African republic Black & White Virginians in the making of Liberia / by Tyler-McGraw, Marie

Table of Contents: “…A small frisson of fear, soon soothed -- The alchemy of colonization -- Auxiliary arms - Ho, all ye that are by the pale-faces' law oppressed: out of Virginia -- My old mistress promise me -- Revising the future in Virginia -- Virginians in Liberia -- Liberians in Africa and America -- Civil War to white city.…”
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The history and present state of Virginia / by Beverley, Robert, approximately 1673-1722

Table of Contents: “…A note on the texts -- The history -- Book I : The history of the first settlement of Virginia, and the government thereof, to the present time -- Book II : The natural productions and conveniencies of the country, suited to trade and improvement -- Book III : The native Indians, their religion, laws, and customs, in war and peace -- Book IV : The present state of the country, as to the polity of the government, and the improvements of the land.…”
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