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American Visions: The United States, 1800–1860
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On November 8, 2023, award-winning author Edward Ayers delivered a lecture about his book, American Visions: The United States, 1800–1860.
The early...
An Artist's Story: Civil War Drawings by Edwin Forbes
Apollo: When We Went to the Moon
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Audubon's The Birds of America
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Audubon's Viviparous Quadrapeds
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Before We Went Underground and Wireless…
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Beginnings of Black Education
Booker T. Washington, Julius Rosenwald, and the Building of Schools for the Segregated South
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On May 16, 2013, Stephanie Deutsch delivered a Banner Lecture entitled "Booker T. Washington, Julius Rosenwald, and the Building of Schools for the...
Bookplates
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Bound to the Fire: How Virginia’s Enslaved Cooks Helped Invent American Cuisine
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In grocery store aisles and kitchens across the country, smiling images of “Aunt Jemima” and other historical and fictional black cooks can be found...
Broadsides
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Business Archives & The Chesapeake Corporation
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Byrd Family
Calvin Hopkins — Rosenwald Schools Oral History
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Second Union School, Goochland County (1953–1959).
This oral history is presented as part of the exhibition "A Better Life for Their Children: Julius...
Care Beyond National and Color Lines: Filipino Nurses in Virginia Across the 20th Century
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Carillon: The Story of a Richmond Community
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On November 14, 2013, Elizabeth O'Leary delivered a Banner Lecture entitled "Carillon: The Story of a Richmond Community."
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Changing the Commonwealth with Crayons
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Charles Williams — Rosenwald Schools Oral History
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Cape Charles Elementary, Northampton County (1957–1964).
This oral history is presented as part of the exhibition "A Better Life for Their Children...
Chief Judge Roger Gregory on Integration
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The Honorable Roger Gregory, Chief Judge of the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, discusses the importance of integration.
This recording...
Civil Rights Movement in Virginia
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