Learn About Richmond

Analyzing the broad, complex, and interrelated factors that contribute to systemic challenges in our communities is an important part of our civic engagement. This short list is a helpful starting point for learning about Richmond.

Books

Campbell, B. P. (2012). Richmond's unhealed history. Brandylane Publishers, Inc.

Davis, S. C. (1988). The world of Patience Gromes: Making and unmaking a black community. University Press of Kentucky.

Hayter, J. M. (2017). The dream is lost: voting rights and the politics of race in Richmond. University of Kentucky Press.

Kimball, G. D. (2000). American city, southern place: A cultural history of antebellum Richmond. University of Georgia Press.

Ooten, M. A. & Sawyer, J. (2023). People's guide to Richmond and central Virginia. University of California Press.

Moeser, J. V. & Dennis, R. M. (2020). The politics of annexation: Oligarchic power in a southern city. VCU Libraries.

Potterfield, T. T. (2009). Nonesuch place: A history of the Richmond landscape. Arcadia Publishing.

Williamson, T., Hayter, J.M., & Howard, A. L. (2024). The making of twenty-first-century Richmond: Politics, policy, and governance, 1988-2016. The University of North Carolina Press.