Social history articles and books continue to be published on topics that include Rockingham County history. Food and cookbooks remain popular publications. Several titles having interest include John Heatwole's Shenandoah Voices: Folklore, Legends and Traditions of the Valley and Dorothy Boyd-Rush's Register of Free Blacks Rockingham County, Virginia, 1807-1859.
The compiler's 1989 Rockingham County bibliography contained sixty-five citations on social history.