Virginia: A Guide to the Old Dominion

Virginia: A Guide to the Old Dominion

Compiled by Workers of the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Virginia

740 pages, 101 black-and-white illustrations
ISBN 0-88490-173-4 (cloth) $35.00

The crowning achievement of the New Deal's Federal Writers' Project was its American Guide Series of books and pamphlets describing the nation's cities, states, territories, regions, and localities. Published by Oxford University Press in 1940, the Virginia guide is still in great demand more than sixty years later for its wealth of fascinating historical information. This reprint edition includes an insightful new foreword by Garrett Epps.

"This copiously illustrated book is a browser's delight."—Virginia Magazine of History and Biography