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"Locating the 1809 Negro Burial Ground" By Dr. Chris Stevenson, VDHR
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On Saturday, February 28, 2009, the community was invited to attend a conference about Richmond’s African American history, “Hidden Things Brought to...
"Shockoe Valley Topography and the Slave Trade" By Jeffrey Ruggles
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On Saturday, February 28, 2009, the community was invited to attend a conference about Richmond’s African American history, “Hidden Things Brought to...
“A Perfect Hell of Blood”: The Battle of the Crater
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On August 23, 2018, A. Wilson Greene delivered a banner lecture, “‘A Perfect Hell of Blood’: The Battle of the Crater.”
Although the Petersburg...
“Haven of Safety”: The Kaiser’s Courteous Pirates in Hampton Roads
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On March 22, 2018 , Gregory J. Hansard delivered Banner Lecture at the Virginia Museum of History & Culture entitled “‘Haven of Safety’: The Kaiser’s...
“Letters from a Soviet Prison: A Son’s Search for the Truth”
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On May 1, 2018, Francis Gary Powers, Jr., presented a Banner Lecture about his book, Letters from a Soviet Prison: A Son’s Search for the Truth. For...
“Matthew Fontaine Maury: The Last Crusade,” by John Grady
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On January 21 at noon, John Grady delivered a Banner Lecture entitled “Matthew Fontaine Maury: The Last Crusade.”
When Matthew Fontaine Maury was...
1861: The Civil War Awakening By Adam Goodheart
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With his new book, 1861: The Civil War Awakening, Adam Goodheart revisits the most turbulent and consequential year in American history. In the hands...
A Century of Foreign Wars
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A Chat with Willie and Woody
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On August 10, 2016, veteran Richmond Times-Dispatch sports columnist Paul Woody, and Hall of Famer Willie Lanier gave a Banner Lecture.
Virginia...
A Gunner in Lee's Army: The Civil War Letters of Thomas Henry Carter
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On December 4, 2014, at noon, Graham Dozier delivered a Banner Lecture entitled "A Gunner in Lee's Army: The Civil War Letters of Thomas Henry"
In...
A Manner Which Would Not Have Been Permitted Towards Slaves: Race, Reconstruction, and Memory in Postwar Richmond
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On October 12 at 5:30 p.m., Michael D. Gorman delivered a Banner Lecture entitled “‘A Manner Which Would Not Have Been Permitted Towards Slaves’: Race...
A Native Son Comes Home: The Life and Legacy of Arthur Ashe
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On July 23 at noon, Eric Hall delivered a Banner Lecture entitled “A Native Son Comes Home: The Life and Legacy of Arthur Ashe.”
Virginia’s own...
A Ninety Day War?
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A Saga of the New South: Race, Law, and Public Debt in Virginia
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On March 16, Brent Tarter delivered a Banner Lecture entitled “A Saga of the New South: Race, Law, and Public Debt in Virginia.”
A Saga of the New...
A. D. Price Funeral Establishment
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In this video, Lauranett Lee, former Curator of African American History, discusses the A. D. Price Funeral Establishment, one of the oldest African...
Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade
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On January 26, 2012, Maurie D. McInnis delivered a lecture entitled "Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade."
In 1853 Eyre Crowe, a young...
Abolitionist Pitcher
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Across Time: Robinson House, Its Land and People
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On February 28, 2019, Elizabeth L. O’Leary delivered the Banner Lecture, “Across Time: Robinson House, Its Land and People.”
What is that building...
Affidavit, 1693
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