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Collections in the Classroom
These thematic resource kits are designed to help students analyze and interpret primary source material from our...
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College Football
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Learn more about Virginians' long-standing love affair with football.
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Colleges and Universities
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These sites focus on particular buildings or areas of university campuses.
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Colonial Cookbooks
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Food and dining were integral to social life in the eighteenth century, particularly among the upper class. The gentry...
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Color Our Collections
We created these pages in honor of the Color Our Collections festival with fellow museums, libraries, archives, and...
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Coming Out, Affecting Change
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For centuries, social and legal discrimination forced most lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+)...
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Conclusion
Throughout the twentieth century and during the past decade, apologists for John Brown have turned out imagery and
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Conclusion - Did the Civil War End at Appomattox?
Lee’s army had become the embodiment of Confederate nationalism, and after its surrender other southern forces soon gave up
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Confederate Alamo: Bloodbath at Petersburg’s Fort Gregg on April 2, 1865
On April 1 at noon, John J. Fox III, delivered a Banner Lecture entitled "Confederate Alamo: Bloodbath at Petersburg’s Fort Gregg on April 2, 1865."
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Confederate Exceptionalism: Civil War Myth and Memory in the Twenty-First Century
How do so-called neo-Confederates distance themselves from the actions and beliefs of white supremacists while clinging to the very symbols and...
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Confederate Imprints
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Before secession, most of the established publishers of booking, broadsides, and sheet music were located in such large...
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Confederate Love Poems
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The most prominent Civil War poetry is poetry of the battlefield.
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Confederate Memorial Literary Society (CMLS) Image Collection
The Confederate Memorial Literary Society (CMLS) Image Collection includes approximately 6,300 items from the American...
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Connecticut sculpture
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Records of the Best Products Company provide interesting insights into the history of this iconic sculpture.
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Construction Updates
Reimagining Your Virginia Museum of History & Culture:A Dramatic Renovation and Expansion Project January 2021 – While...
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Contact the editor
Contact the editor of the Virginia Magazine of History & Biography.
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Learn about the new Virginia History Day registration form.
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Contested Borderland: The Civil War in Appalachian Kentucky and Virginia
On July 25, Brian D. McKnight delivered a Banner Lecture entitled "Contested Borderland: The Civil War in Appalachian Kentucky and Virginia."
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Cookbooks (Advertising)
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By the twentieth century, there was a tremendous burst of interest in cooking as a variety of new processed foods became...