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Philip Alexander Bruce

(1856-1933)
Virginia

Poetry

Philip Alexander Bruce, Pocahontas and Other Sonnets (Norfolk, Virginia: 1912)

Pocahontas interceding for Captain John Smith

[John Gilmary Shea, The Story of a Great Nation
(New York: Gay Brothers & Company, 1886)]

[Used with permission of the Florida Center for Instructional Technology]

Writings

Philip Alexander Bruce, The Plantation Negro as a Freeman: Observations on His Character, Condition, and Prospects in Virginia (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1889) [online text] (Williamstown, Massachusetts: Corner House, 1970)(Northbrook, Illinois: Metro Books, 1972)

_________________, Economic History of Virginia in the 17th Century: An Inquiry into the Material Condition of the People, Based upon Original and Contemporaneous Records (New York: Macmillan and Co., 1896)(2 vols.) [vol. 1: online text] (New York: P. Smith, 1935) [online text]

_________________, The Rise of the New South (Philadelphia: Printed for subscribers by G. Barrie & Sons, 1905) [online text]

_________________, Robert E. Lee (Philadelphia: G. W. Jacobs & Company, 1907) [online text]

_________________, Social Life of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century (Richmond, Virginia: Printed for the author, Whittet & Shepperson, 1907)(subtitled: "An inquiry into the origin of the higher planting class, together with an account of the habits, customs, and diversions of the people")(Richmond, Virginai: Whittet and Sherperson, Printers, 1907) [online text] (Lynchburg, Virginia: J.P. Bell, 2nd ed., 1927)(New York: F. Unger, 1964)(Williamstown, Massachusetts: Corner House Publishers, 1968)

_________________, Institutional History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1910)(2 vols.) [vol. 2: online text] (Gloucester, Massachusetts: P. Smith, 1964)

_________________, Brave Deeds of Confederate Soldiers (Philadelphia: G. W. Jacobs & Company, 1916)

_________________, History of the University of Virginia, 1819-1919; the Lengthened Shadow of One Man (New York: Macmillan Company, Centennial ed., 1920-1922)(5 vols.) [Vol. 1, Centennial ed., 1920: online text] [vol. 5 (1922) : online text]

_________________, The Virginia Plutarch (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1929)

_________________, Virginia: Rebirth of the Old Dominion (Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1929)(5 vols.)

Research Resource

The Last American Aristocrat: The Biography of David K.E. Bruce, 1898-1977