Books by UMW alumni Holy Nation: The Transatlantic Quaker Ministry in an Age of Revolution By Sarah Crabtree ’01, assistant professor of history at San Francisco State University Early American Quakers have long been perceived as retiring separatists, but in Holy Nation, Sarah Crabtree transforms our historical understanding of the sect by drawing on the sermons, diaries, and correspondence of Quakers themselves. Situating Quakerism within the larger intellectual and religious undercurrents of the Atlantic World, Crabtree shows how Quakers forged a paradoxical sense of their place in the world as militant warriors fighting for peace. – University of Chicago, July 2015 A Want of Vigilance: The Bristoe Station Campaign, October 9-19, 1863 By Bill Backus ’10 and Robert Orrison In the months after Gettysburg, Gen. Robert E. Lee looked for the chance to strike out at Maj. Gen. George Gordon Meade. The authors trace a game of cat and mouse between the armies’ camps around … [Read more...]