Richmond Then and Now Mall 2: Books About Richmond, Virginia

	Celebrate Richmond Theater Compiled and edited by Elisabeth Dementi and Wayne Dementi Written by Kathryn Fuller-Seeley This volume recounts the movie- and theater-going practices of Richmonders over the past 100 years, illustrated with photographs from the Dementi Family of Photographers' historic collection. Fuller-Seeley describes more than 100 historic Richmond-area theaters, including their design, famous performances and contributions to the culture of the community. The book includes both old and new photographs of many prominent theaters, including the Byrd, Hippodrome, and Landmark theaters and the Carpenter Center for the Performing Arts, originally known as the Loews Theater. -- Lorraine Cichowski, VCU News
	Hollywood Cemetery, Her Forgotten Soldiers: Confederate Field Officers at Rest by Chris Ferguson As much as any other place, Hollywood Cemetery still captures the atmosphere of wartime Richmond. Her Forgotten Soldiers embraces that feeling and thrives upon it. Chris Ferguson chronicles the lives of Confederate field officers who found their final home in the South's most famous cemetery. Many of them died defending Virginia. Notable for its unimpeachable research, Ferguson's book is an important and fascinating work that rescues dozens of significant officers from virtual anonymity - Robert E.L. Krick Richmond Area Historian and author of the forthcoming book Staff Officers in Gray
	Hollywood Cemetery: The History of a Southern Shrine by Mary Mitchell Inspired by the international rural-cemetery movement, created amid controversy in the 1840s and 1850s, and challenged by the toll of the Civil War, Hollywood Cemetery is both an American and a southern landmark. Here lie United States presidents James Monroe and John Tyler as well as Confederate president Jefferson Davis. J. E. B. Stuart, George Pickett, and countless other southern officers and soldiers found their final rest in these grounds.
	American City, Southern Place: A Cultural History of Antebellum Richmond By Gregg D. Kimball This insightful work ultimately reveals how Richmonders' self-perceptions influenced the decisions they made during the sectional crisis, the Civil War, and Reconstruction, showing that people made rational choices about their allegiances based on established beliefs. American City, Southern Place is an important work of social history that sheds new light on cultural identity and opens a new window on nineteenth-century Richmond.
	Richmond's Monument Avenue by Sarah Shields Driggs, Richard Guy Wilson, Robert P. Winthrop This book traces the history of Monument Avenue, of its buildings and statuary, and of the people who helped create one of America's great streets. Enriched by more than three hundred photographs, plans, and drawings, it chronicles the avenue's development, captures architectural details and city preservation efforts, and places the avenue's story in local, regional, and national context.
	Celebrate Richmond by Wayne Dementi, Tom Wolfe, Cory Hudgins (Narrator), Dementi Wayne (Preface), Dementi Elisabeth, Hudgins Corrine, Dementi Family Photographs reflecting a "then and now" perspective of Richmond are combined with a treasure of images which bring back great memories in the life and times of Richmonders. Readers will be left with a sense of warmth and justifiable pride for having shared in Richmond's 20th century.
	Women of Mark : a History of the Woman's Club of Richmond, Virginia, 1894-1994 Sandra Gioia Treadway Women of Mark traces the growth of the Woman's Club in Richmond from the dedicated band of fourteen founders to the sixteen hundred members of its centennial year and places the club within the context of women's associations and activities elsewhere in the United States. The story of the club's attempt to remain true to its original educational mission while at the same time adapting to the changing political, economic, and intellectual roles of women in American life will be of interest to those who study the history of women, Richmond, and the twentieth-century South.
	Baseball and Richmond: A History of the Professional Game, 1884-2000 By W. Harrison Daniel and Scott P. Mayer Early baseball in Richmond, Virginia, was very much about business. The game was a means of promoting Richmond and its various industries and attractions, but it was plagued by instability as a result of competing interests fighting for control of its fortunes in the city and frequent changes in ownership also due to competing interests vying to make a profit in any way they could on the game. As time passed, baseball became more established and eventually found its place in the city. Richmond's affiliation with baseball, from the years 1884 to 2000, is chronicled in this work. It covers the players and owners, and also comments on the relationship shared by the team and the city. It highlights baseball's early amateur beginnings in Richmond prior to 1884, the first year of professional baseball in the city in 1884, the revival of the Virginia State League from 1906 to 1914, the Virginia League from 1918 to 1928 and the Eastern League in 1931 and 1932, the Richmond Colts and the Piedmont League from 1933 to 1953, and Richmond's association with the International League beginning in 1954.
	City Smart: Richmond By Gail Doyle Richmond local Gail Doyle has personally selected the best places to eat, shop, sightsee, and simply hang out. And not just the fancy places - there are selections geared for every budget. There are also lots of fun "city favorites" lists from area residents and sidebars that focus on local history, insider secrets, and interesting trivia.