 To correct what he considered misconceptions and misjudgments was the aim of his various works, which included magazine articles and papers read before historical societies.His publications include "New Views on Early Virginia History" (1886), a pamphlet; "The Genesis of the United States" (two volumes, 1890), a valuable collection of previously unprinted historical manuscripts and of rare tracts; "The Cabells and their Kin" (1895); "The First Republic in America" (1898), an account of the early history of Virginia; "The History of our Earliest History" (1898); and "English Politics in Early Virginia History" (1901).He died in Norwood, Nelson County, Virginia, in 1906.