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We the People Traveling Exhibition
Weird-but-True Things Most People Don't Know about the Roaring Twenties
On November 14 at 2 p.m., Mary Miley Theobald delivered a lecture entitled "Weird-but-True Things Most People Don't Know about the Roaring Twenties."
...Werowocomoco and Fairfield Plantation: Rediscovering the Forgotten Landscapes of Gloucester County
On April 2, 2009, David Brown and Thane Harpole delivered this lecture entitled “Werowocomoco and Fairfield Plantation: Rediscovering the Forgotten...
Werowocomoco: Finding and Investigating a Legendary Site
On February 23 at 5:30 p.m., a panel of distinguished guests delivered a Banner Lecture entitled “Werowocomoco: Finding and Investigating a Legendary...
West Virginia v. EPA
What Are the Five Physical Regions of Virginia’s Geography?
What Caused the Civil War
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 Exactly Is A Shadow Docket?
What Lies Beneath: Examining Cranstone's Slave Auction, Virginia
What Made George Washington Tick
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...
What So Proudly We Hailed: Francis Scott Key, A Life
On July 2 at noon, Marc Leepson delivered a Banner Lecture entitled “What So Proudly We Hailed: Francis Scott Key, A Life.”
What So Proudly We Hailed...
What's For Breakfast?
What's Wrong with Black Beard?
On March 19 at noon, Kevin P. Duffus delivered a Banner Lecture entitled "What's Wrong with Black Beard?"
The traditional historical interpretation...
When Every Second Counted: A Reflection on the Historic and Dramatic Race to Transplant the First Human Heart
Fifty years ago, cutting-edge science intersected with human drama and changed the course of medical history. The Medical College of Virginia in...
When the Hero of Hacksaw Ridge had lunch at the VHS
When the hero of Hacksaw Ridge had lunch at the VHS
When the Sun Stood Still: Reflections on the Reverend John Jasper in His Bicentennial Year
On February 23, 2012, Samuel K. Roberts delivered a lecture entitled "When the Sun Stood Still: Reflections on the Reverend John Jasper in His...
Who Freed the Enslaved People?
Who Looks at Lee Must Think of Washington By Robert Tilton
In his 1866 poem, “Lee in the Capitol,” Herman Melville portrays a dignified Robert E. Lee advocating reconciliation before the Congressional...