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The mission of the annual SVCC Festival of the Arts is to provide an in-depth
exploration of the cultural riches of countries and cultures around the
world to create a better understanding of those nations and cultures. 

This year's festival spotlights COLONIAL AMERICA..
This pathfinder will endeavor to provide library and internet resources
for the study and exploration of Early and Colonial America.

CATALOG SUBJECT HEADINGS (LIBRARY OF CONGRESS) EXAMPLES
African Americans--History--18th century African Americans--History--to 1863 Colonies in literature
Colonists--United States Jamestown (Va.) United States--History--Colonial period
Indians of North America--Costume Indians of North America--East (U.S.) Indians of North America--First contact with Europeans
Indians of North America--History--Colonial period Indians of North America--History--18th century Indians of North America--History--Revolution
Indians of North America--New England--History Literature and society--United States--History--18th century Mayflower (Ship)
Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony) Plymouth (Mass.)--History Plymouth Rock
Puritans--Massachusetts Puritans--New England Puritans--United States
Slavery--United States--History--17th century Slavery--United States--History--18th century United States--Description and travel--1783-1848
United States--Description and travel--to 1783 United States--Economic conditions--to 1865 United States--Emigration and immigration--History--17th century
United States--Emigration and immigration--History--18th century United States--Foreign relations--1775-1783 United States--Foreign relations--1783-1865
United States--Foreign relations--to 1775 United States--History--1783-1789 United States--History--1783-1865
United States--History--Confederation United States--History--Constitutional period United States--History--French and Indian War
United States--History--Intellectual life--17th century United States--History--Militia--18th century United States--History--Revolution
United States--Politics and government--1783-1865 United States--Politics and government--18th century United States--Politics and government--to 1775
United States--Politics and government--1775-1783 United States--Social conditions--18th century United States--Social conditions--to 1865
United States--Social life and customs--1775-1783 United States--Social life and customs--1783-1865 United States--Social life and customs--Colonial period
United States--Social life and customs--to 1775

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Links
Encyclopedia/Reference Web Sites Journals/Magazines

Books & Electronic Books
 Note:  A netLibrary electronic resource book is available to college users/patrons only. 
Consult the netLibrary ebook link on the Library homepage.  Access requires a free
individual user account which must be created on a SVCC computer.

The following  reflects a comprehensive, but partial listing of books in print,
books in electronic format, videos, audio recordings, and computer software
 available to patrons of the SVCC library.

Click here for a printable pdf document of the same list.
African Americans Art / Music / Theatre / Architecture Bibliography
Cookery Economics Fiction
History/Biography Indians Jamestown
Literature Politics and government Religion
Slavery Social life and customs Travel / Geography
Virginia Colonial History Video recordings Audio recordings
Computer Software    

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Books - Virginia Colonial History and/or Jamestown

Bacon, Nathaniel, 1648-1676.:   Bacon's declaration in the name of the people (30 July 1676)

  [electronic resource] /  by Nathaniel Bacon.  Champaign, IL : Project Gutenberg ;
 

Boulder, CO : NetLibrary, [199-?].
  http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=1028100
Barbour, Philip L.:   Pocahontas and her world;  a chronicle of America's first settlement
  in which is related the story of the Indians and the Englishmen, particularly
  Captain John Smith, Captain Samuel Argall, and Master John Rolfe [by]
  Philip L. Barbour.  Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1970 [c1969].
  SWCC MAIN F234.J3 B38
Billings, Warren M., 1940-:   The Old Dominion in the seventeenth century;  a
  documentary history of Virginia, 1606-1689.  Edited by Warren M. Billings.
  Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture
  at Williamsburg, VA, by the University of North Carolina Press [1975].
  SWCC MAIN F229 .B615

Billings, Warren M., 1940-:   Sir William Berkeley and the forging of colonial Virginia /  
  Warren M. Billings.  Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2004.
  SWCC MAIN F229.B53 B55 2004

Blanton, Wyndham Bolling, 1890-1960.:   Medicine in Virginia in the seventeenth century.
  New York : Arno Press, 1972 [c1930].
  SWCC MAIN R345 .B5 1972

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Braun, Eric, 1971-:   The Story of Jamestown /  by Eric Braun ; illustrated by Steve Erwin,
  Keith Williams, and Charles Barnett III.  Mankato, MN : Capstone Press, c2006.
  SWCC JUVN 975.5
Breen, T. H.:   Tobacco culture :  the mentality of the great Tidewater planters on the eve
  of Revolution /  T.H. Breen.  Princeton : Princeton University Press, c1985. 
  SWCC MAIN F229 .B8 1985
Bruce, Philip Alexander, 1856-1933.:   Economic history of Virginia in the seventeenth century;
  an inquiry into the material condition of the people, based upon original and
  contemporaneous records,  by Philip Alexander Bruce.  New York, P. Smith, 1935 [c1895].
 

SWCC MAIN F229 .B882

Bruce, Philip Alexander, 1856-1933.:   Institutional history of Virginia in the seventeenth

  century;  an inquiry into the religious, moral, educational, legal, military, and
  political condition of the people based on original and contemporaneous records,  by
 

Philip Alexander Bruce.  New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1910.
 

SWCC MAIN F229 .B9

Bruce, Philip Alexander, 1856-1933.:   Social life of Virginia in the seventeenth century.
  Williamstown, MA : Corner House Publishers [1968].
  SWCC MAIN F229 .B92 1968
Campbell, Charles, 1807-1876.:   History of the colony and ancient dominion of Virginia.
  Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1860.
  SWCC MAIN F229 .C18
Caruthers, William Alexander, 1802-1846.:   The Cavaliers of Virginia;  or, The recluse of
  Jamestown; an historical romance of the Old Dominion,  by the author of The
  Kentuckian in New-York, Harper, l834.  Ridgewood, NJ : Gregg Press [1968].
  SWCC MAIN PS1262.C8 C35 1968

The Chesapeake in the seventeenth century :  essays on Anglo-American society /  edited by

  Thad W. Tate and David L. Ammerman.  Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early
  American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press, c1979.
 

SWCC MAIN F187.C5 C46

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Coleman, Brooke.:   The Colony of Virginia  [electronic resource] /  Brooke Coleman.
  New York : PowerKids Press, 2000.
 

http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=20102

Colonial Chesapeake society /  edited by Lois Green Carr, Philip D. Morgan, and Jean B.

 

Russo.  Chapel Hill : Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, c1988.
  SWCC MAIN F187.C5 C65 1988
Cooke, John Esten, 1830-1886.:   My lady Pokahontas;  a true relation of Virginia,
  writ by Anas Todkill, Puritan and Pilgrim, with notes by John Esten Cooke.
  Ridgewood, NJ : Gregg Press [1968].
  SWCC MAIN PS1382 .M9 1968

Craven, Wesley Frank, 1905-:   Dissolution of the Virginia Company;  the failure of a

  colonial experiment.  Gloucester, Mass., P. Smith, 1964 [c1932].
  SWCC MAIN F229 .C895 1964

Custis, John, 1678-1749.:   The Letterbook of John Custis IV of Williamsburg, 1717-1742 /

 

edited by Josephine Little Zuppan.  Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield, c2005.
  SWCC MAIN F234.W7 C95 2005

Dowdey, Clifford, 1904-:   The Golden age; a climate for greatness, Virginia 1732-1775.
 

Boston, Little, Brown [1970].
 

SWCC MAIN F229 .D69 1970
Dowdey, Clifford, 1904-:   The Virginia dynasties;  the emergence of "King" Carter and the
  golden age.  Boston, Little, Brown [1969].
 

SWCC MAIN F229 .D7

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Eckenrode, H. J. (Hamilton James), 1881-:   The Revolution in Virginia,  by H.J. Eckenrode.
 

Hamden, CT : Archon Books, 1964.
  SWCC MAIN E263.V8 E2

Emerson, Everett H., 1925-:   Captain John Smith,  by Everett H. Emerson.
  New York : Twayne Publishers [1971].
  SWCC MAIN F229 .E4

Fischer, David Hackett, 1935-:   Bound away :  Virginia and the westward movement / David
 

Hackett Fischer and James C. Kelly.  Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 2000.
 

SWCC MAIN F229 .F534 2000

Foster, Genevieve, 1893-:   The World of Captain John Smith, 1580-1631.
  New York : Scribner [1959].
  SWCC JUVN 909.5 Fos
Frantz, John B.:   Bacon's Rebellion; prologue to the Revolution?  Edited with an introd. by
 

John B. Frantz.  Lexington, Mass., Heath [1969].
  SWCC MAIN F229 .F76
Gleach, Frederic W. (Frederic Wright), 1960-:   Powhatan's world and Colonial Virginia  
  [electronic resource] :  a conflict of cultures /  Frederic W. Gleach.  Lincoln : 
  University of Nebraska Press, c1997.
  http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=41528
Hale, Nathaniel Claiborne, 1903-:   Virginia venturer,  a historical biography of William
  Claiborne, 1600- 1677; the story of the merchant venturers who founded Virginia,
 

and the war in the Chesapeake.  Richmond, Dietz Press [c1951].
  SWCC MAIN F229.C589 H3

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Hariot, Thomas, 1560-1621.:   A brief and true report of the new found land of Virginia, by
  Thomas Hariot; a facsimile reproduction of the 1588 quarto, with an introductory essay by
 

Randolph G. Adams, Director of the William L. Clements Library.
 

Ann Arbor : Edwards Bros., 1931.
 

SWCC MAIN F229 .H287

Hariot, Thomas, 1560-1621.:   A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia,  by
  Thomas Hariot; reproduced in facsimile from the first edition of 1588, with an
 

introductory note by Luther S. Livingston.  New York : Dodd, Mead, 1903.
 

SWCC MAIN F229 .H285

Harkins, Susan Sales.:   Jamestown :  the first English colony /  by Susan and
  William Harkins.  Hockessin, DE : Mitchell Lane, c2006.
  SWCC JUVN 975.5
Hofstra, Warren R., 1947-:   The Planting of New Virginia :  settlement and landscape in the
  Shenandoah Valley /  Warren R. Hofstra.  Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University
 

Press, 2004.
 

SWCC MAIN F232.S5 H64 2004

Hoobler, Dorothy.:   Captain John Smith :  Jamestown and the birth of the American
  dream /  Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler.  Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, c2006.
  SWCC MAIN F229.S7 H66 2006
Horn, James P. :   A Land as God made it :  Jamestown and the birth of America /
  James Horn.  New York : Basic Books, c2005.
  SWCC MAIN F234.J3 H66 2005

Isaac, Rhys.:   The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 /  by Rhys Isaac.  Chapel Hill :
  Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, VA.,
  by University of North Carolina Press, c1982.
 

SWCC MAIN F229 .I8 1982

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James I, King of England, 1566-1625.:   First charter of Virginia  [electronic resource] /  by
  James I, King of England.  Hoboken, NJ : BiblioBytes ; Boulder : NetLibrary, [199-?].
  http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=2008513
January, Brendan, 1972-:   The Jamestown Colony  [electronic resource] /  by
  Brendan January.  Minneapolis : Compass Point Books, c2001.
  http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=55104

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.:   Notes on the state of Virginia  [electronic resource] /  by

  Thomas Jefferson.  Raleigh : Alex Catalogue ; Boulder : NetLibrary, [199-?].
 

http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=1085927
Kegley, Mary B.:   Early adventurers on the Western waters /  by Mary B. Kegley and F. B.
 

Kegley.  Orange, VA : Green Publishers, c1980-c1982.
 

SWCC MAIN F232.W9 K44

King, Nanci C.:   Abingdon, Virginia, 1778-1880 /  [by Nanci C. King] ; photography by
 

James Birchfield and Nanci C. King.  [Abingdon, VA : N.C.  King], c1989
 

(Abingdon, Va. : Abingdon Printing Services).
 

SWCC MAIN F234.A122 K5 1989

Lewis, Jan, 1949-:   The Pursuit of happiness :  family and values in Jefferson's Virginia /  
 

Jan Lewis.  New York : Cambridge University Press, 1983.
  SWCC MAIN HQ535 .L44 1983

Link, William A.:   Roots of secession  [electronic resource] :  slavery and politics in antebellum
 

Virginia /  William A. Link.  Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003.
  http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=104000

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Lorant, Stefan, 1901-:   The New world; the first pictures of America,  made by John White
  and Jacques Le Moyne and engraved by Theodore De Bry, with contemporary
  narratives of the Huguenot settlement in Florida, 1562-1565, and the Virginia Colony,
  1585-1590; edited and annotated by Stefan Lorant.  New York : Duell,
  Sloan & Pearce [1946].
  SWCC OVSZ E141 .L88
McDonald, James Joseph, 1844-:   Life in old Virginia;  a description of Virginia, more
  particularly the Tidewater section, narrating many incidents relating to the manners
  and customs of old Virginia so fast disappearing as a result of the war between the
  states, together with many humorous stories ...  by James J. McDonald ... Ed. by J. A.
  C. Chandler.  Norfolk, VA : The Old Virginia Publishing Co., Inc., 1907.
 

SWCC MAIN F227 .M13

Narratives of early Virginia, 1606-1625 /  ed. by Lyon Gardiner Tyler ; with a map
  and two facsimiles.  New York : Scribner, 1907.
  SWCC MAIN F229 .T994

National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Virginia.:   
  Register of ancestors /  the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the
 

Commonwealth of Virginia.  Richmond : The Society, 1979.
  SWCC MAIN F225 .N37 1979
Nelson, John K. (John Kendall), 1933-:   A Blessed company  [electronic resource] :
   parishes, parsons, and parishioners in Anglican Virginia, 1690-1776 /  John K.
  Nelson.  Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2001.
  http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=79158

Noël Hume, Ivor.:   Here lies Virginia;  an archaeologist's view of colonial life and history.
  New York : Knopf, 1963.
  SWCC MAIN F229 .N83

Perry, James R., 1950-:   The Formation of a society on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1615-  

  1655 /  James R. Perry.  Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History
  and Culture, Williamsburg, VA, by the University of North Carolina Press, c1990. 
  SWCC MAIN F229 .P47 1990

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Pobst, Sandy.:   Voices from colonial America.  Virginia, 1607-1776 /  Sandy Pobst with
 

Kevin D. Roberts.  Washington, D.C. : National Geographic Society, c2005
  SWCC JUVN 975.5
Price, David, 1961-:   Love and hate in Jamestown :  John Smith, Pocahontas, and the heart
 

of a new nation / David A. Price.  New York : Vintage Books, 2005, c2003.
  SWCC MAIN F234.J3 P68 2005
Randolph, Edmund, 1753-1813.:   History of Virginia.  Edited with an introd. by Arthur H.
  Shaffer.  Charlottesville : Published for the Virginia Historical Society [by]
 

University Press of Virginia [1970].
  SWCC MAIN F229 .R185 1970
Rountree, Helen C., 1944-:   Before and after Jamestown  [electronic resource] :
  Virginia's Powhatans and their predecessors /  Helen C. Rountree and E.
  Randolph Turner III ; foreword by Jerald T. Milanich.  Gainesville : University Press
  of Florida, c2002.
  http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=126542
Rountree, Helen C., 1944-:   Pocahontas's people :  the Powhatan Indians of Virginia
  through four centuries /  by Helen C. Rountree.   Norman : University of
  Oklahoma Press, 1990.
  SWCC MAIN E99.P85 R67 1990
Rountree, Helen C., 1944-:   The Powhatan Indians of Virginia :  their traditional culture /
  by Helen C. Rountree.  Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c1989.
  SWCC MAIN E99.P85 R68 1989

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Rountree, Helen C., 1944-:   The Powhatan Indians of Virginia  [electronic resource] :
  their traditional culture /  by Helen C. Rountree.  Norman : University of
  Oklahoma Press, 1992, c1989.
  http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=14928
Sams, Conway Whittle, 1864-1935.:   The Conquest of Virginia: the second attempt;
  an account, based on original documents, of the attempt, under the king's
  form of government, to found Virginia at Jamestown. 1606-1610.
  Norfolk, VA : Keyser-Doherty Printing Corporation, 1929.
  SWCC MAIN F229 1929
Smith, John, 1580-1631.:   The Generall historie of Virginia, New-England, and the
  Summer Isles;  with the names of the adventurers, planters, and governours
  from their first beginning an ℓ : 1584. to this present 1624. With the
  proceedings of those severall colonies and the accidents that befell them in
  all their journeys and discoveries. Also the maps and descriptions of all those
  countryes, their commodities, people, government, customes, and religion yet
  knowne. Divided into sixe bookes.  London : Printed by I. D. and I. H. for
  Michael Sparkes, 1624.   [Murfreesboro, NC : Johnson Pub. Co., 1970?].
  SWCC MAIN F229.S6 1624a 1970

Smith, Margaret Vowell.:   Virginia, 1492-1892;  a brief review of the discovery of the

 

continent of North America, with a history of the executives of the colony and of the

 

commonwealth of Virginia ...  By Margaret Vowell Smith.  Washington : W.H
 

Lowdermilk & Co., 1893.
  SWCC MAIN F225 .S65
Stanard, William Glover, 1858-1933.:   Some emigrants to Virginia;  memoranda in regard
  to several hundred emigrants to Virginia during the colonial period whose parentage
  is shown or former residence indicated by authentic records.  Compiled by W. G.
 

Stanard.  Baltimore, Genealogical Pub. Co., 1964.
  SWCC MAIN F225 .S82 1964
Summers, Lewis Preston, 1868-1943.:   History of southwest Virginia, 1746-1786,
 

Washington County, 1777-1870.  Baltimore : Regional Pub. Co., 1971 [c1966].
  SWCC MAIN F232.W3 S92 1971

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Talpalar, Morris.:   The Sociology of colonial Virginia.  New York : Philosophical Library [1960].

SWCC MAIN F229 .T15

Virginia;  four personal narratives.  New York, Arno Press, 1972.
SWCC MAIN F229 .V5 1972
Washburn, Wilcomb E.:   The Governor and the rebel;  a history of Bacon's Rebellion
  in Virginia.  Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History
  and Culture at Williamsburg by the University of North Carolina Press [1957].
  SWCC MAIN F229 .W28
Weintraub, Stanley, 1929-:   General Washington's Christmas farewell :  a Mount Vernon
  homecoming, 1783 /  Stanley Weintraub.  New York : Free Press, c2003.
 

SWCC MAIN E312.29 .W45 2003
Wertenbaker, Thomas Jefferson, 1879-1966.:   Patrician and plebian in Virginia;  or,
 

The origin and development of the social classes of the Old Dominion.  New York :
  Russell & Russell, 1959.
  SWCC MAIN F229 .W49 1959
Woodward, Grace Steele.:   Pocahontas  [electronic resource].  Norman : University
  of Oklahoma Press, [1969].
  http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=15002
Wright, Louis B. (Louis Booker), 1899-1984.:   The First gentlemen of Virginia;  intellectual
  qualities of the early colonial ruling class,  by Louis B. Wright.
  San Marino, CA : The Huntington Library, 1940.
  SWCC MAIN F229 .W965

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Books - Bibliography
Blazek, Ron.:   United States history  [electronic resource] :  a selective guide to
  information sources /  Ron Blazek and Anna H. Perrault.  Englewood, CO :
  Libraries Unlimited, 1994.
  http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=18383
Cutting, Rose Marie.:   John and William Bartram, William Byrd II, and St. John de
  Crèvecoeur :  a reference guide /  R