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Virginia House
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Virginia Landscapes: Sublime & Picturesque
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Virginia’s Sweet History – Chocolate-Making in the Commonwealth
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Virginia Waterways and the Underground Railroad
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Enslaved Virginians sought freedom from the time they were first brought to the Jamestown colony in 1619. Acts of self-emancipation were aided by...
Virginia's Confederate Monuments
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Hundreds of memorials in stone commemorate the Civil War in Virginia at courthouses, cemeteries, town squares, and battlefields. With An Illustrated...
Virginia's Constitution
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Virginia’s Lost Appalachian Trail
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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...
Virginia’s Star Political Cartoonists
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VIRTUAL LECTURE - Escape to the City: Fugitive Slaves in Antebellum Richmond
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On September 21, 2023, Viola Franziska Müller gave a virtual-only lecture about her book, Escape to the City: Fugitive Slaves in the Antebellum Urban...
VMHC Education | Games of the Past: Paper Dolls
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In this edition of Games of the Past, we're talking about Paper Dolls! This video gives a brief history of paper dolls and shows you how to make your...
Voting Rights
W. E. B. Du Bois and the NAACP
Walter Washington Foster Glass Plate Negatives Collection
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War and Pieces: Quilts through America's War Years
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On Thursday, August 22, Neva Hart delivered a banner lecture entitled "War and Pieces: Quilts through America's War Years."
For soldiers in the field...
War Stories: Commemorating the Centennial of World War I
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War Zone: World War II off the North Carolina Coast
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On June 12 at noon, Kevin P. Duffus delivered a Banner Lecture entitled "War Zone: World War II off the North Carolina Coast."
For seven months in...
We Cannot be Tame Spectators: Four Centuries of Virginia Women's History
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From before Jamestown to our own new millennium, women have been central figures in the families and communities of the Old Dominion. In recent...
We Shall Not Be Moved: Virginia Songs of Labor
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From the textile mills of Danville to the coal fields of Wise to the tobacco factories of Richmond, workers have rallied to songs of labor. The songs...
Weird-but-True Things Most People Don't Know about the Roaring Twenties
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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."
...West Virginia v. EPA
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