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Virginia Bernhard (B.A., Rice; M.A., University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D., Rice) is Professor Emerita of History at the University of St. Thomas. Born in Austin, Texas, she grew up in Houston, attending Lanier Junior High School, San Jacinto High School, and Rice University. After graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania she returned to Houston and earned a Ph.D. in history at Rice. She lives in Houston, Texas, is married to Jim Bernhard, actor/writer, and has three grown children.

Awards and honors:
• Katherine Munson Foster Memorial Award for Literature, Brazos County Historical Museum, 2014
• B.K. Smith Lecturer in History, University of St. Thomas, 2011.
• Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation Award for Outstanding Scholarship and Academic ...more

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	A Durable Fire 3.85 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 1990 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Tale of Two Colonies: What Really Happened in Virginia and Bermuda? 3.79 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ima Hogg: The Governor's Daughter (Volume 20) (Fred Rider Cotten Popular History Series) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1984 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Slaves and Slaveholders in Bermuda, 1616-1782 (Volume 1) 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hidden Histories of Women in the New South (Volume 1) (Southern Women) by Virginia Bernhard (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Betty Brandon (Editor), Elizabeth Fox-Genovese (Editor) 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1994	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Southern Women: Histories and Identities by Virginia Bernhard (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Betty Brandon (Editor), Elizabeth Fox-Genovese (Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1992 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Birth of American Feminism: The Seneca Falls Woman's Convention of 1848 by Virginia Bernhard (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Elizabeth Fox-Genovese (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1995	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hoggs of Texas: Letters and Memoirs of an Extraordinary Family, 1887–1906 liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Firsthand America: A History of the United States by Virginia Bernhard (Goodreads Author), David Burner it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1992 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Smell of War: Three Americans in the Trenches of World War I (Volume 14) (C. A. Brannen Series) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“In the early 1600s, for nearly two decades, Virginia and Bermuda were the only English colonies in the New World. Here, for the first time, English, Indians, and Africans had to learn to live together. After four hundred years, there is still much to learn.”
― Virginia Bernhard, A Tale of Two Colonies: What Really Happened in Virginia and Bermuda?

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