The Virginia Experiment: The Old Dominion's Role in the Making of America 1607-1781

Superb volume…detailed and very entertaining…Reading this volume in conjunction with a trip would provide the best conceivable history lesson, a true appreciation of both the meager and momentous beginnings of this nation.
—The Washington Post

Lively and engrossing
—The (Louisville, KY) Courier-Journal

Mapp has a genius for narrative history almost equal to Parkman himself…Fascinating…The reader will be entertained and enriched.
—Arthur Pierce Middleton The Virginia Magazine of History

A fine scholar, caring teacher, and voluminous communicator who has won several awards as a national educator.
—President Rosanne Runte, Old Dominion University