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Historian Thomas D. Perry, Founder of the J. E. B. Stuart Birthplace, edits the first of a projected three volume series of the papers of Civil War General James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart.

"Dear Phil" Letters To And From Philmore G. Minter, Company H, 116th Regiment, 29th Division, tells the story of a D-Day survivor through the letters he wrote and were sent to him. Wounded by friendly fire a month after landing on Omaha Beach, Minter returned home to face a tough life before his death. This is the third book written by Thomas D. "Tom" Perry while working with David Minter, son of Philmore G. Minter

Historian Thomas D. "Tom" Perry is his second true crime book reveals the dark side of Mount AIry and the surrounding area's history of murder and mayhem. Before it was Mayberry from native son's Andy Griffith show, it was known as Little Chicago.This book covers murder stories in Mount Airy and the surrounding area in Patirck and Carroll Counties in nearby Virginia.

Civil War General Jubal Anderson Early commanded everything from regiments to entire armies under Robert E. Lee in the War Between the States 1861-65. This book discusses Early's life concentrating on his home county of Franklin and the efforts to preserve his homeplace there.

Whose Middle Ages? is an interdisciplinary collection of short, accessible essays intended for the nonspecialist listener and ideal for teaching at an undergraduate level. Each of 22 essays takes up an area where digging for meaning in the medieval past has brought something distorted back into the present: in our popular entertainment; in our news, our politics, and our propaganda; and in subtler ways that inform how we think about our histories, our countries, and ourselves. Each author looks to a history that has refused to remain past and uses the tools of the academy to read and re-read familiar stories, objects, symbols, and myths.

Historian Thomas D. "Tom" Perry takes over two decades of Bassett Heritage Notes, the newsletter of the Bassett Virginia Heritage Festival to tell the history of the Henry County town. Proceeds from this book will go towards the scholarships given by the Stanleytown Ruritan Club, who run the Bassett Heritage Festival.

Published in September 2010 and revised in 2013, Historian Thomas D. Perry tells the history of the town he was born in through two hundred images. Chapters on Andy Griffith, Donna Fargo, "Dinky" Railroad, and the many people of Mount Airy along with chapters on granite and the author's family give a snapshot view of the town so associated with Mayberry.

Historian Thomas D. "Tom" Perry reflects on his mentor Dr. James I. Robertson, Jr. of Virginia Tech, a renown Civil War Historian.

To all appearances, Dan Chase is a harmless retiree in Vermont with two big mutts and a grown daughter he keeps in touch with by phone. But most sixty-year-old widowers don't have multiple licenses, savings stockpiled in banks across the country, and a bugout kit with two Beretta Nanos. Years ago, as a young hotshot in army intelligence, Chase was sent to Libya to covertly assist a rebel army. When the plan turned sour, Chase reacted according to his own ideas of right and wrong, triggering consequences he could never have anticipated. And someone still wants him dead because of them.

Historian Thomas D. "Tom" Perry completes his Graham Mansion Trilogy that contains a history and ghost book about the Wythe County Mansion. In this book, Perry tells the story of Reid Stanger Fulton, an economics professor and book dealer known for his eccentric lifestyle and extensive mythology mostly invented by Fulton himself.

Historian Thomas D. "Tom" Perry writes about stories of true crime along the Virginia North Carolina border region that he calls home. From the 1912 Hillsville Shootout to the 2007 Virginia Tech Massacre, Perry writes about these stories that have interested him over a long career of writing about the history of the place he calls home. Subjects covered include the 1929 Lawson family Christmas murders in Stokes County to the shootout on Fayette Street in Martinsville, Virginia, along with the case of the Martinsville Seven. Multiple bombing stories from Mount Airy, North Carolina, before it...

In March 1944, eleven young men lost their lives in a plane crash on Patrick County Virginia's Bull Mountain on a training mission. Educator Clarence Hall spent many years researching the crash. He and others put up two memorials to the men who lost their lives on the mountain and at the county courthouse in Stuart, Virginia. Historian Thomas D. "Tom" Perry tells the story of the men, their mission and the memorials to their sacrifice.

James I. Robertson Jr. of Virginia Tech calls Tom Perry's The Free State Of Patrick a "masterful job" in telling the story of Patrick County Virginia in the American Civil War. Perry, a graduate of Virginia Tech in nearly 400 pages tells the story of his home county in the War Between The States.

James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart's father Archibald Stuart held every political position that Patrick County, Virginia, could elect him too. This book tells about the life of the father of the Confederate Major General Stuart, who served one term in the United States House of Representatives and multiple terms in the Virginia House of Delegates and Senate along with long tenures as Commonwealth Attorney for multiple counties in Southwest Virginia. Married to Elizabeth Letcher Pannill Stuart, the couple raised over ten children at their home, Laurel Hill, in Patrick County, Virginia, just ...

Just Joe: Baseball’s Natural, as told by his wife highlights the extraordinary career of South Carolina’s Joseph Jefferson Jackson, more well-known as “Shoeless Joe.” Related from the imagined perspective of his wife Katie, Just Joe examines the life of a couple devoted to baseball, and more importantly, to each other. Jackson’s career, especially his batting prowess and his involvement in the 1919 World Series “Black Sox” scandal, are well known. However, what’s largely unknown is how Joe and Katie Jackson gracefully weathered the criticism and condemnation from fans and ...

Historian Thomas D. "Tom" Perry tells the story of Civil War General James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart and his first sweetheart Elizabeth Perkins "Bettie" Hairston in this book on the history of Patrick and Henry Counties in Virginia in the antebellum period and through the War Between The States. Using Stuart's letters to Hairston, Perry tells the story of their romance and their lives afterwards. The story comes forward to the piano she played and he sang with her in the days before a war torn this nation apart.

In this revised edition of his 2012 best selling book, Beyond Mayberry, Award Winning Author and Historian, Thomas D. "Tom" Perry, doubles the size of the previous book from 250 to over 500 pages just in time for the 60th anniversary of the release of The Andy Griffith Show in October 1960. Perry adds to the knowledge about how much Andy Griffith's hometown, Mount Airy, North Carolina, is the basis for the fictional town of Mayberry made famous in the show. This book has new chapters about Betty Lynn, who played Thelma Lou on The Andy Griffith Show and later moved to Mount Airy. This book ...

A short biography of Civil War General James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart concentrating on his Christian faith.

As the American Civil War began to run down the southern Virginia town of Martinsville in Henry County saw one of the last actions of that war. A Confederate cavalry regiment under the command of James T. Wheeler met the brigade of Union Brevet Brigadier General William J. Palmer on April 8, 1865. The result was a victory for the United States forces. This book tells the story of that fight for Martinsville and the life of Palmer, who was born a Quaker in Delaware and ended his life as a millionaire businessman in Colorado.

The story of a father and a daughter separated for twenty-one years until the latter comes looking for the former. Sadly, they never had a chance, but this book speaks to the tragedy of mental health issues and the dysfunctional world and families that we all live with in today's society.