Virginia Bernhard

Virginia Bernhard is Professor Emerita of History at the University of St. Thomas in Houston. Her publications include Slaves and Slaveholders in Bermuda, 1616-1782 (1999), A Tale of Two Colonies: What Really Happened in Virginia and Bermuda? (2011), and Ima Hogg: The Governor's Daughter (Texas State Historical Association edition, 2011). 

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Texas legend has it that James Stephen Hogg, Governor of Texas from 1890 to 1894, named his daughters Ima and Ura, but that is only half-true:...

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