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Virginia Museum of History & Culture Announces Recipients of 2024 Commonwealth History Fund Grants
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Virginia Museum of History & Culture to Host Citizenship Ceremony as Part of President’s Day Celebration
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Virginia Museum of History & Culture Announces New Portfolio of Traveling Exhibitions for Local and Regional Celebrations Marking America’s 250th Anniversary
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Virginia Museum of History & Culture Prepares to Offer Free U.S. Citizenship Preparation Classes This Spring
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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 Museum of History & Culture Honors Legacy of Rosenwald School Program in New Exhibition
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Virginia Museum of History & Culture to Offer Free Admission for Moms this Mother’s Day
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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's Civil War: A Guide to Manuscripts at the Virginia Historical Society
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Virginia’s Sweet History – Chocolate-Making in the Commonwealth
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Production methods and flavorings have changed in the 4,000 years since chocolate was consumption began, but it remains...
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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 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...
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Virginia’s Star Political Cartoonists
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Virginia has been home to many well-known politicians and artists, but it can also lay claim to several prominent...