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Article Set - Chapter
School Busing
Because Black and white Virginians generally lived in segregated neighborhoods in the mid-twentieth century, race-neutral
Exhibition
Secrets & Symbols
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![Desk Made by John Shearer A wood rolltop desk with three drawers and a gold scale symbol embossed on the top](/sites/default/files/styles/fp_landscape_768x576/public/Secrets%20Symbols_John%20Shearer%20desk%29_2022.35_DSC5539.jpg.webp?itok=I7V1eNTm)
Representing a diverse range of artisans, eras, and object types, the featured items in this display share a common...
Article Set - Chapter
September 1967
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![Lt. Rasmussen with the Red Cross jeep that provided a means to transport medical supplies to forward command posts. It also served as an ambulance. Lt. Rasmussen with the Red Cross jeep that provided a means to transport medical supplies to forward command posts. It also served as an ambulance.](/sites/default/files/styles/fp_landscape_768x576/public/Letters%20from%20Vietnam_TC23.4_Digital_15.JPG.webp?itok=TIVgK0TN)
Article Set - Chapter
Statesman
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![Marshall’s writing desk used in France A photograph of Marshall’s writing desk used in France](/sites/default/files/styles/fp_landscape_768x576/public/Traveling-writing-desk_0.jpg.webp?itok=vdKrIEHc)
Article Set - Chapter
Stephanie Younger — The Rising Generation
The wave of police killings of unarmed Black people in the 2010s spurred Stephanie Younger (b. 2002) to activism. Seeking to
Article Set - Chapter
Surviving War – The Home Front
The prospect of life under United States military occupation caused some Virginians in the path of early U.S. advances to
Exhibition
Taking Aim
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![Close-up of the Woodson musket's flintlock Close-up of a musket's flintlock, with an exterior bridle and is engraved with a floral pattern and is marked "Collicot"](/sites/default/files/styles/fp_landscape_768x576/public/Taking%20Aim_1929.8_v5.jpg.webp?itok=IrQwAtgl)
Taking Aim features the stories of craftspeople, inventors, soldiers, and even lawbreakers as told through firearms from...
Article Set - Chapter
The 13th Amendment: Was Freedom Achieved?
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Article Set - Chapter
The 13th Amendment: Was Freedom Achieved?
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Article Set - Chapter
The Civil War
In the spring of 1861, as the still youthful nation moved ever closer to what would become the Civil War, both Robert E. Lee
Article Set - Chapter
The Closing of Prince Edward County's Schools
After Virginia's school-closing law was ruled unconstitutional in January 1959, the General Assembly repealed the compulsory
Exhibition
The Commonwealth and the Great War
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![WWI tanks Black & White photo of a row of tanks in front of a building circa 1912-1914](/sites/default/files/styles/fp_landscape_768x576/public/2001.230.1912-1914_1914_v1_1920x1440.jpg.webp?itok=2JmcFkDT)
This exhibition explored the role Virginians played in World War I and highlighted the stories of individual Virginians...
Article Set - Chapter
The Gardens
Learn more about the gardens at Virginia House.
Article Set - Chapter
The Green Decision of 1968
By 1968, the U.S. Supreme Court had lost patience with the slow pace of school integration. In New Kent County, Virginia
Article Set - Chapter
The House
Virginia House was completed in 1928, and in 1929 it was presented to VHS.
Exhibition
The League of Wives
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Featuring artifacts, photographs, and oral histories, this exhibition illustrated the dramatic story of how the spouses...
Article Set - Chapter
The Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement
The civil rights movement was a heroic episode in American history. It aimed to give African Americans the same citizenship rights that whites took for granted.
Exhibition
The Lost Cause
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![Autumn - Gen. J. E. B. Stuart Leading His Cavalry In A Charge A mural of Confederate soliders on horseback in an autumn landscape of hillside and trees](/sites/default/files/styles/fp_landscape_768x576/public/Lost%20Cause_Hoffbauer_Cavalry_Autumn.2005.340.C.jpg.webp?itok=mJPjKufB)
This exhibition explores the history of the Lost Cause as expressed through a cycle of military murals and a sculpture...
Exhibition
The Private Jefferson
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The Private Jefferson: From the Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society features Thomas Jefferson's...
Exhibition
The Story of Virginia
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![Story of Virginia Exhibition detail Story of Virginia Gallery in VMHC. View shows colonial portraits in background and glass cases in foreground](/sites/default/files/styles/fp_landscape_768x576/public/SOV-Forward-Options-005_1920x1440.jpg.webp?itok=qhYuv9bO)
This exhibition interprets 16,000 years of Virginia history and features more than 500 artifacts, maps, letters, and...