Star Maps: History, Artistry, and Cartography. 2nd ed. Nick Kanas.

Star Maps: History, Artistry, and Cartography. 2nd ed. Nick Kanas. Springer praxis, 2012.

The Color of their Skin: Education and Race in Richmond, Virginia 1954-89. by Robert A. Pratt.

The Color of their Skin: Education and Race in Richmond, Virginia 1954-89. by Robert A. Pratt. University Press of Virginia, 1992. Desegregation, the annexation, etc. good data.

The Politics of Annexation: Oligarchic Power in a Southern City. by John V. Moeser and Rutledge M. Dennis.

The Politics of Annexation: Oligarchic Power in a Southern City. by John V. Moeser and Rutledge M. Dennis. Schenkman Publishing Co, Inc. 1982. Richmond's 1970 annexation of Chesterfield, which set off a years-long lawsuit and led to the weak-mayor system that we just got rid of. One of my childhood neighbors shows up in here, which is weird.

Twentieth-Century Richmond: Planning, Politics, and Race. by Christopher Silver.

Twentieth-Century Richmond: Planning, Politics, and Race. by Christopher Silver. University of Tennessee Press, 1984. So much of the current mess makes sense when you see the history behind it.

The Separate City: Black Communities in the Urban South 1940-1968. by Christopher Silver and John Moeser.

The Separate City: Black Communities in the Urban South 1940-1968. by Christopher Silver and John Moeser. University Press of Kentucky, 1995. Atlanta, Richmond, Memphis. School desegregation, political leadership. So much good material on Richmond.

Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves by Kirk Savage.

Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America by Kirk Savage. Princeton University Press, 1997. This book is SO GOOD. The introduction argues that racism in the US is inextricably tied up with the representation of the human body, and the following chapters look at the failure of the US to create memorials to Emancipation, slavery, and the Civil War because of this problem. Fantastic chapters on the Richmond Lee Monument, memorials to Common Soldiers, etc.