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Exhibition
Inside Looking Out
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![Event-BTS-Stovall-teaser.jpg Event-BTS-Stovall-teaser.jpg](/sites/default/files/styles/fp_landscape_768x576/public/Event-BTS-Stovall-teaser.jpg.webp?itok=x5x6a5CW)
The first exhibition of its kind in that it displays nearly all of artist Queena Stovall’s work in one place, this...
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Interpreting Historical Images
A historical image can be interpreted in a number of ways. Each approach brings a different set of considerations, or frame
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Invented Scenes for Narratives
When artists were hired to illustrate written accounts of events in Virginia, they did not aim to make realistic
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James Armistead Lafayette: A Fight for Freedom & Equality
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![Justice in the Classroom & Determined Header Image Justice in the Classroom & Determined Header Image](/sites/default/files/styles/fp_landscape_768x576/public/JICDetermined_Header.jpg.webp?itok=tUWHMhEG)
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James Armistead Lafayette: A Fight for Freedom & Equality
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January 1967
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![Lt. Rasmussen at one of the half-dozen different forward command posts established across the Central Highlands by the 3rd brigade in 1967. A soldier stands in front of tent in a mountainous landscape.](/sites/default/files/styles/fp_landscape_768x576/public/Letters%20from%20Vietnam_TC23.4_Digital_01.JPG.webp?itok=qvE5ysaM)
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January 1968
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John Chilton letter [page 1]
John Chilton to Martin Pickett (VHS call number: Mss1 K2694 a8) Transcription: Morris height Camp N. York, Government. 17th
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John Chilton letter [page 2]
hour. Our men observed the best order, not quitting their ranks tho' exposed to a constant & warm fire. I can't say enough in
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John Chilton letter [page 3]
P.S. Since I finished my letter am informed that we had about 20 killed & as many wounded. It is said that the enemy
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John Marshall
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![Chief Justice Marshall (1755-1835) oil on canvas by Chester Harding Chief Justice Marshall (1755-1835) oil on canvas by Chester Harding](/sites/default/files/styles/fp_landscape_768x576/public/john-marshall-and-robe-768x1335.jpg.webp?itok=eyZzV7_z)
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John Marshall
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![Portrait of John Marshall Portrait of John Marshall - Marshall has grey hair, glasses positioned on top of his head and wears a black jacket with white necktie](/sites/default/files/styles/fp_landscape_768x576/public/JohnMarshall.1988.8_2_1920x1440.jpg.webp?itok=OLR-MU5t)
Highlighting objects like his Law Commonplace Notebook, spectacles and inkwell, writing desk, and even his hair, this...
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John Marshall & Slavery
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Julia Child: A Recipe for Life
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![Julia Child – Photography by Paul Child © The Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University A black and white photo of Julia Child in her kitchen standing behind a countertop filled with cooking implements and ingredients](/sites/default/files/styles/fp_landscape_768x576/public/Julia-Child_W539012_12_WEB.jpg.webp?itok=ZM1Rbl06)
Learning to cook empowered Julia and she in turn empowered others, profoundly transforming American cuisine and food...
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July 1967
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![A U.S. helicopter crash onto one of the 3rd brigade’s bunkers Photos of a green field with trees, smoke in the distance, and mountains beyond](/sites/default/files/styles/fp_landscape_768x576/public/Letters%20from%20Vietnam_TC23.4_Digital_13.JPG.webp?itok=EMqmf63H)
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June 1967
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![The harbor at Hong Kong in 1967. The harbor at Hong Kong in 1967.](/sites/default/files/styles/fp_landscape_768x576/public/Letters%20from%20Vietnam_TC23.4_Digital_12.JPG.webp?itok=WQnG_EoT)
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Landscapes of Virginia
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![Valley & Ridge - "The Passing Storm, Shenandoah Valley" by Alexis Fournier, 1924 Valley & Ridge - "The Passing Storm, Shenandoah Valley" by Alexis Fournier, 1924](/sites/default/files/styles/fp_landscape_768x576/public/VHE_RegionsOfVirginia_PassingStorm.jpg.webp?itok=qb4vmDv1)
An exhibition of diverse landscape paintings that showcase the variety of terrain and climate that characterize Virginia...
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Lee and Grant
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By the end of the Civil War, most Americans considered either Robert E. Lee or Ulysses S. Grant to be a hero. The time has come for a reassessment of these two men, on whom fell the greatest responsibility for the survival or disintegration of the United States.
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Legacy of The Great War
For Virginia, the significant legacy of the war was the establishment of a sizeable military presence in the state. With the
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Letters from Vietnam
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![Lt. Rasmussen at the McKeller Dispensary at Pleiku in the central highlands, August 1967, with ‘Keats’, a dog he and his men adopted. A man in military uniform with a dog outside of a low barracks building](/sites/default/files/styles/fp_landscape_768x576/public/Letters%20from%20Vietnam_TC23.4_Print_01.JPG.webp?itok=pW9kDNRC)