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Political Decline and Westward Migration
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PRAISE YOUR MOTHER / AMA A LA MAMÁ – InLight 2020
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Racial Inequality
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Racial Reconciliation in Modern Richmond
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On February 8, 2024, historian Marvin T. Chiles discussed the subject of his new book, The Struggle to Change: Race and the Politics of Reconciliation...
Randolph Family
Recovering History, Reclaiming the Present: The Apalachee Diaspora since the 16th Century
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On April 7, 2022, Kimberly C. Borchard presented a lecture about the 500-year-old myth of Appalachian gold and its catastrophic consequences for the...
Remembering Queena
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This special program celebrated the opening of the Virginia Museum of History and Culture’s exhibition, "Inside Looking Out: The Art of Queena Stovall...
Rentals at Virginia House
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Research into the Best Products Archives: A Journey by Artist Scott Myles
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Reynolds Aluminum: It's the Cans!
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Richmond’s part in the early automobile and racing industries
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Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery
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One of America's great rural cemeteries, overlooking the falls of the James River, Hollywood provides a final resting place for Richmond's—indeed...
Robert Knox Sneden Chronology
Rural Life in Virginia
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Scottish Stone Masons and Virginia Stone
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On June 5, 2019, Stewart McLaurin delivered the Banner Lecture, “Scottish Stone Masons and Virginia Stone.”
In the 1790s, the stone harvested from...
Secretariat By Kate Chenery Tweedy
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Secretariat, the great red stallion who became the 1973 Triple Crown winner, was born on March 30, 1970, at The Meadow, a historic farm in Caroline...
Secretariat: Virginia’s Superhorse
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Secrets & Symbols: Child's Chest of Drawers
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Chest of drawers, about 1914
William L. Hedgbeth, Sr. (1882–1966)
VMHC Collection, Gift of Llewellyn H. Hedgbeth in memory of her grandfather William L...
Secrets & Symbols: Cooler by George Fulton
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Cooler for water or beer, 1856
George N. Fulton (1834–1894) for David Parr’s Pottery, Richmond, Virginia
On long-term loan from The Greenbrier, White...
Secrets & Symbols: Desk by John Shearer
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Desk, 1817
John Shearer (about 1760–after 1818)
VMHC Collection, Gift of The Children of Louis and Harriett Waldrop
John Shearer, a Scottish immigrant...