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James Jones Archive (1870s-1960s)
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Jamestown, the Truth Revealed (Chauncey Lecture 2017)
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On July 19, 2017, Dr. William M. Kelso delivered the Hazel and Fulton Chauncey Lecture entitled “Jamestown, the Truth Revealed.”
What was life really...
Jim Crow to Civil Rights in Virginia
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John Smith's "General History of Virginia"
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In this video, former VMHC Vice President for Collections E. Lee Shepard discusses John Smith's The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England, and...
Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
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Lee and Grant
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Life Portrait of Pocahontas
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Louis Brandeis: An American Legal Giant by Melvin Urofsky
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On March 25, 2010, Melvin Urofsky delivered a lecture on his book Louis Brandeis: An American Legal Giant.
Louis Brandeis was one of the most...
Magna Carta: 800 Years since Runnymede A. E. Dick Howard
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On September 9, 2014, at noon, A. E. Dick Howard delivered a Banner Lecture entitled "Magna Carta: 800 Years since Runnymede."
In 2015 people on both...
Mary-Cooke Branch Munford
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Memory
Mending Walls RVA
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Murals Inspired by the Story of Virginia
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Nancy Langhorne Shaw Astor
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Native Southerners: The Indigenous People Who Made and Remade the South
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On May 9, 2019, Gregory D. Smithers delivered the Banner Lecture, “Native Southerners: The Indigenous People Who Made and Remade the South.”
Long...
Pocahontas – Religion and Faith (Pocahontas Symposium: Session 2)
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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...
Pocahontas Remembered… An Ocean Away
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Political Sheet Music
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Proud American Day program
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Racial Inequality
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