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Author:	Cooke, John Esten, 1830-1886.
Title:	Virginia : a history of the people /
Print source:	Virginia : a history of the people / by John Esten Cooke. Cooke, John Esten, 1830-1886. Boston, New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1884, c1883.
Publication Info:	Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, Digital Research Library 2007-12-04
Availability:	These pages may be freely searched and displayed. Permission must be received for subsequent distribution in print or electronically.
Subject terms:	Virginia--History. Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
URL:	http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/text-idx?idno=31735054780170;view=toc;c=darltext

Contents

[Map: Part of Colonial Virginia]

The Authorities

I. The Plantation. I. The Good Land

III. The Oldest American Charter

V. The Terrible Summer of 1607

VI. The Ancient Virginians

VII. Pocahontas

VIII. A Year of Incidents

IX. The Strong Hand at Last

X. The Sea-Venture

XI. The Last Wrestle of the Factions

XII. The First American Ruler and Writer

XIII. Virginia Abandoned

XIV. The Lord De La Warre

XV. Dale's City of Henricus

XVI. Rolfe and Pocahontas

XVII. Last Days of Pocahontas and Powhatan

XVIII. Virginia Under A Watch-dog and a Hawk

XIX. The First American Assembly and Constitution

XXI. The Maids and First Slaves

XXI. The Massacre

XXII. The Fall of the Company

XXIII. The First Virginia Authors

XXIV. Outline of Virginia Under James I.

II. The Colony. I. The New Era

II. The Thrusting Out of Sir John Harvey

III. The Puritans

IV. Clayborne The Rebel

V. The Last Emperor

VI. The Perfect Picture of Virginia

VII. The Surrender

VIII. Virginia Under the Commonwealth

IX. The Battle of the Severn

X. The King's-Men Up Again

XI. Virginia on the Eve of the Rebellion

XII. The Hidden Fires

XIII. The Outflame

XIV. Bacon's Arrest

XV. A Scene in the Burgesses

XVI. In Front of the State House

XVII. The Oath at Middle-Plantation

XVIII. The White Aprons at Jamestown

XIX. The Death of Bacon

XX. Berkeley's Vengeances

XXI. The Last Years of the Century

XXII. The Tubal-Cain of Virginia

XXIII. The Virginians of the Valley

XXIV. The New Lights

XXV. France and England in the Great Woods

XXVI. The Tragedy of Duquesne

XXVII. The End of the Struggle

XXVIII. The Writers of the Colonial Period

XXIX. The Golden Age of Virginia

III. The Commonwealth. I. The Hour and the Men

II. Henry the "Prophet of Revolution"

III. The Stamps

IV. The War of the Churches

V. The Heart of the Rebellion

VI. The Stepping Stones of Revolution

VII. Jefferson the "Apostle of Democracy"

VIII. Lee, Mason, and Pendleton

IX. Virginia and Massachusetts

X. The First Blood of the Revolution

XI. Virginia Arming

XII. The Gunpowder

XIII. The Last Dunmore in Virginia

XIV. Virginia Declares Herself an Independent Commonwealth

XV. The Overturners

XVI. The Hannibal of the West

XVII. Lafayette and Conrwallis

XVIII. Yorktown

XIX. The Constitution

XX. Modern Virginia

XXI. Virginia Literature in the Nineteenth Century

XXII. The War of the Sections

XXIII. Virginia Since the War