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What Are the Five Physical Regions of Virginia’s Geography?
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What Caused the Civil War
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This video looks at the question "What Caused the Civil War." The video specifically looks at differences between the North and South and the outbreak...
What Lies Beneath: Examining Cranstone's Slave Auction, Virginia
![What Lies Beneath: Examining Cranstone's Slave Auction, Virginia A painting titled "Slave Auction, Virginia" by Lefevre J. Cranstone.](/sites/default/files/styles/fp_landscape_768x576/public/WhatLiesBeneath_SlaveAuction.1991.70_sm.jpeg.webp?itok=XLumnW0x)
What Made George Washington Tick
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George Washington very much wanted to be famous. Yet, he did not wish to be known, and there is a remoteness about him that will perhaps always remain...
Who Freed the Enslaved People?
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Who Looks at Lee Must Think of Washington By Robert Tilton
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In his 1866 poem, “Lee in the Capitol,” Herman Melville portrays a dignified Robert E. Lee advocating reconciliation before the Congressional...
Who Was American?
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Who was Pocahontas?
Who Was the Traitor and Who the Patriot?
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Why Did the Civil War Happen?
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Why is there a West Virginia?
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Why We Need to Talk About James Armistead Lafayette
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William Cabell Rives: A Country to Serve
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On September 3 at noon, Barclay Rives delivered a Banner Lecture entitled “William Cabell Rives: A Country to Serve.”
Defying the president and...
Winnie Davis: Daughter of the Lost Cause
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On June 26, Heath Hardage Lee delivered a Banner Lecture entitled "Winnie Davis: Daughter of the Lost Cause."
Varina Anne “Winnie” Davis was the...
Writing the Declaration of Independence, 1776
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Year of Meteors: Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election that Brought on the Civil War
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On March 24, 2011, Douglas R. Egerton delivered a Banner Lecture entitled "Year of Meteors: Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election that...