Teacher Resources: Suggested Reading

Robert E. Lee

• Robert E. Lee: A Biography (1995) by Emory Thomas [good overall - easy to read]
• Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee through his Private Letters (2007) by Elizabeth Brown Pryor [includes excerpts of letters, new research materials, detailed family background]
• Lee: The Last Years (1981) by Charles Bracelen Flood [excellent for years following the Civil War]
• R. E. Lee: A Biography (1934) by Douglas Southall Freeman [Four volumes - can be also found in abridged version]
• Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee - originally published 1904 by Robert E. Lee, Jr. and reprinted 2004 by Barnes & Noble Pub., Inc. [includes excerpts of family letters]
• Robert E. Lee: An Album (2000) by Emory M. Thomas [good for images of Lee]
• Lee and Grant (2007) by William M. S. Rasmussen and Robert S. Tilton [compares lives of Lee and Grant to accompany exhibition of same title]

The Lees and Stratford

• Stratford Hall Plantation and the Lees of Virginia: A Stratford Handbook (1998) by RELMA [short, basic information on Lees who lived at Stratford]
• The Lees of Virginia: Seven Generations of an American Family (1990) by Paul C. Nagel [best overall study of the Lee family - available in paperback]
• Lee of Virginia: 1642-1892 (1895) by Edmund Jennings Lee [genealogical reference - now out of print but can sometimes be found in large libraries]
• Light-Horse Harry Lee and the Legacy of the American Revolution (1981) by Charles Royster [now out of print but best scholarly study of Henry Lee published]
• Paul Buchanan: Stratford Hall and Other Architectural Studies (1998) [architectural study of Stratford with biographical material on historic architect Paul Buchanan written by William Seale]
• Richard Henry Lee of Virginia: A Portrait of an American Revolutionary (2004) by J. Kent McCaughy [scholarly account of Richard Henry Lee in context of colonial politics]
• Arthur Lee: A Virtuous Revolutionary (1981) by Louis W. Potts [in-depth study of Arthur Lee’s contributions to the revolutionary cause and his problems with Silas Deane]
• The Lee Girls (1987) by Mary P. Coulling [excellent family biography]
• The "Manner House" Before Stratford (Discovering The Clifts Plantation) (1980) by Fraser D. Neiman [overview of 17th-century archaeological site at Stratford]

Colonial/Revolutionary Period

• The Festive Tradition by Louise Belden [history of foodways]
  
• Colonial Virginians at Play by Jane Carson [leisure time activities]
• At Home: The American Family 1750-1870 (1989) by Elisabeth Donaghy Garrett [excellent overall resource for use of domestic living spaces]
• Back of the Big House by John Michael Vlach [domestic spaces of slavery]
• The Making of Virginia Architecture by Brownell, Loth, Rasmussen and Wilson [history of architecture]
• Journal & Letters of Philip Vickers Fithian, 1773-1774: A Plantation Tutor of the Old Dominion (1945) ed. by Hunter Dickinson Farish [primary source on plantation life in Virginia]