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Virginia Museum of History & Culture to Offer Free Admission for Dads on Father’s Day
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Virginia Museum of History & Culture to Offer Free Admission for Moms this Mother’s Day
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Virginia Museum of History & Culture to Offer Free Admission for Youth and Students on Labor Day
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Virginia Museum of History & Culture to Offer Free Admission to Mother’s in Celebration of Mother’s Day
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Virginia Museum of History & Culture to Offer Paid Professional Development Workshops for Virginia Educators
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Virginia Museum of History & Culture to Start Receiving Applicants for Second Cycle of Commonwealth History Fund Grants
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Virginia Museum of History & Culture to Welcome New American Citizens at July 4th Citizenship Ceremony and Celebration
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Virginia Museum of History & Culture Unveils The 2023 Official Virginia History Christmas Ornament
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Virginia Museum of History & Culture Welcomes Award-Winning Chef Patrick O'Connell for an Evening of Conversation and A Celebration of Virginia’s Culinary Culture
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Virginia on the Eve of War
In 1917, Virginia was largely rural and poor. Although there was a growing migration to cities, three out of four Virginians
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Virginia Students Prepare to Compete in the 2024 History Day State Contest at the Virginia Museum of History & Culture
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Virginia Students Win 1st Place at the National History Day Contest
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Virginia Survivors of the Titanic
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On the starry night of April 14, 1912, halfway through its maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York, RMS...
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Virginia Waterways and the Underground Railroad
Enslaved Virginians sought freedom from the time they were first brought to the Jamestown colony in 1619. Acts of self-emancipation were aided by...
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Virginia's Civil War: A Guide to Manuscripts at the Virginia Historical Society
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Virginia's Colonial Dynasties
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In the colonial period, portraiture proved to be a particularly useful tool in establishing and preserving family status. This exhibit presents twenty-four portraits from the Virginia Historical Society's collection. Early Virginia portraits reveal much about the families that commissioned them, as well as how these Virginians valued how they were perceived by others.
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Virginia's Confederate Monuments
Hundreds of memorials in stone commemorate the Civil War in Virginia at courthouses, cemeteries, town squares, and battlefields. With An Illustrated...
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Virginia's Constitution
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The delegates who gathered in convention in Richmond in 1901 to rewrite Virginia’s Constitution had no doubt about why...
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Virginia’s Lost Appalachian Trail
On August 3, 2023, Mills Kelly gave a lecture about his book, Virginia’s Lost Appalachian Trail. For over two decades, hikers on the Appalachian Trail...