Ongoing research

A Big History of Virginia

A long-duration history project tracing Virginia through civilizational, imperial, and global frameworks.

Project type
Long-duration history project
Current focus
The current direction is toward large-scale framing: placing Virginia within Atlantic, continental, and world-historical processes without losing local texture.

This project treats Virginia not as an isolated subject but as a node in larger movements of empire, migration, ecology, religion, and political order. The intention is to hold the local and the global in the same frame.

It is a writing project first, but also a method project: an attempt to build a durable way of working across long spans of time without surrendering narrative coherence.