Other Writings

 

Books

Thomas Jefferson: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
(New York: PowerPlus Books – Rosen Publishing, 2005). 
A 5th-grade-level biography written with his daughter Amy Kukla Chelgreen.

Patrick Henry: Voice of the Revolution
(New York: PowerPlus Books – Rosen Publishing, 2001).
A 5th-grade-level biography written with his daughter Amy Kukla Chelgreen.

A Guide to the Papers of Pierre Clément Laussat, Napoleon’s Prefect for the Colony of Louisiana, and of General Claude Perrin Victor
(New Orleans: Historic New Orleans Collection, 1993).

A Key to Survey Reports and Microfilm of the Virginia Colonial Records Project (Richmond: Library of Virginia, 1990).
Co-edited with John T. Kneebone.

Political Institutions in Virginia, 1619-1660 in John Murrin, ed.,

Outstanding Studies in Early American History
(New York: Garland, 1989).
This is the published version of his Ph.D. dissertation.

The Bill of Rights: A Lively Heritage
(Richmond: Library of Virginia, 1987)

Speakers and Clerks of the Virginia House of Burgesses, 1643-1776
(Richmond: Library of Virginia, 1981).

 

 

 

 

Essays

“Order and Chaos in Early America: Political and Social Stability in Pre-Restoration Virginia,” American Historical Review 90 (1985): 297-298.

“The Chesapeake Colonies,” in Jacob Ernest Cooke et al., eds., Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies (New York: 1993), 1: 188-201.

“A Letter of Advice to the Governor of Virginia, 1624,” William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., 34 (1975): 104-129.  With J. Frederick Fausz.

“A Noble Bargain and its Centenaries,” History News (Winter 2005), 7-9.

“The Wonder and Terror of Clarence John Laughlin,” in John H. Lawrence and Patricia Brady, eds., Haunter of Ruins: The Photography of Clarence John Laughlin (Boston, 1997), 1-5.