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Horns, Masks, and Women's Dress: How the First Klan Used Costume to Build Domestic Terrorism
On December 8 at noon, Elaine Frantz Parsons delivered a Banner Lecture entitled “Horns, Masks, and Women's Dress: How the First Klan Used Costume to...
How Imperfect is Our Past? A Conversation with Charles Bryan
On March 15, 2022, Dr. Charles Bryan and VMHC president and CEO Jamie Bosket had a conversation about some of the topics covered in Dr. Bryan’s latest...
In the True Blue’s Wake: Slavery and Freedom among the Families of Smithfield Plantation
On July 14th, 2022, historian Daniel Thorp held a lecture about his latest book, In The True Blue’s Wake: Slavery and Freedom among the Families of...
Inside the Jemima Code: The Joy of African American Cooking
On April 6, 2018, Toni Tipton-Martin presented a Banner Lecture about her book, “Inside the Jemima Code: The Joy of African American Cooking.”
Women...
Joan Stokes Jones — Rosenwald Schools Oral History
Bena-Hayes and County Training School, Gloucester County (1943–1954).
This oral history is presented as part of the exhibition "A Better Life for Their...
“Keep It a Holy Thing”: Lee Chapel’s Greatest Challenge
On August 2, 2018, David Cox delivered a banner lecture, “‘Keep It a Holy Thing’: Lee Chapel’s Greatest Challenge.”
The chapel that Robert E. Lee...
Keep On Keeping On: The NAACP and the Implementation of Brown v. Board of Education in Virginia
On September 12, 2019, Brian J. Daugherity delivered the Banner Lecture, “Keep on Keeping On: The NAACP and the Implementation of Brown v. Board of...
Marion Randall — Rosenwald Schools Oral History
Bena-Hayes School, Gloucester County Training School (1947–1949).
This oral history is presented as part of the exhibition "A Better Life for Their...
MaryAnne Fletcher — Rosenwald Schools Oral History
Bena-Hayes School, Gloucester County (1947–1951).
This oral history is presented as part of the exhibition "A Better Life for Their Children: Julius...
Michael Scales — Rosenwald Schools Oral History
Pine Grove School, Cumberland County (1959–1964).
This oral history is presented as part of the exhibition "A Better Life for Their Children: Julius...
Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War
On November 16, 2011, Tony Horwitz delivered the Alexander W. Weddell Trustees lecture entitled "Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked...
My Father's Name: A Black Virginia Family after the Civil War
Nadine Armstrong — Rosenwald Schools Oral History
West View School, Fluvanna County (1954).
This oral history is presented as part of the exhibition "A Better Life for Their Children: Julius Rosenwald...
National Reconstruction: Land Redistribution in the South and West after the Civil War
On May 19 at noon, Adam W. Dean delivered a Banner Lecture entitled "National Reconstruction: Land Redistribution in the South and West after the...
Pat Beach — Rosenwald Schools Oral History
Cape Charles Elementary, Northampton County (1950–1958).
This oral history is presented as part of the exhibition "A Better Life for Their Children...
Pocahontas – Religion and Faith (Pocahontas Symposium: Session 2)
Few figures from the American past are better known than the young Powhatan woman who has come down to us as “Pocahontas.” Her fame began in her own...
Racial Reconciliation in Modern Richmond
On February 8, 2024, historian Marvin T. Chiles discussed the subject of his new book, The Struggle to Change: Race and the Politics of Reconciliation...
Reclamation: How a Monticello Descendant Uncovered and Restored Her Family’s Heritage
Join Gayle Jessup White, author of Reclamation: Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a Descendant’s Search for Her Family’s Lasting Legacy, as she...
Religion and Race in the Story of Public Executions in the South
On June 6, 2023, Virginia-born historian Michael Trotti as he shared stories from his research on the movement from public legal executions in the...
Retired Wake Forest University Law Professor Beth Hopkins on civil rights pioneer Daisy Bates
This recording is of a past program by the John Marshall Center for Constitutional History & Civics, as part of a series featuring constitutional...