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A Life Rediscovered: The Story of Emily Winfree
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A Ninety Day War?
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The small United States Army could be enlarged quickly only by appealing to the states to activate local militia troops...
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Advice and Etiquette Books
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A Book Every Body Should Possess. This simple statement highlights the importance placed on advice and etiquette books...
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Arthur Ashe Jr.’s Family Tree: Tracing the Blackwell Family to 1735
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See a rare family tree, drawn by hand on canvas, tracing Arthur Ashe, Jr.’s family.
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Booker T. Washington
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Learn about Booker T. Washington.
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Bookplates
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The use of bookplates is almost as old as printing itself. They were used to record ownership and to reassure the owner...
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Children's Manuscripts
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Prominent Virginians are well represented in the many manuscripts housed at the VMHC. However, documents by individuals...
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Christmas Cards
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Christmas cards are ephemeral, and this essence is the very reason they can be of interest to researchers. Scholars...
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Colored Knights of Pythias Helmet (c. 1890)
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Confederate Imprints
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Items published in the Confederate States during the Civil War are known as Confederate imprints. These imprints...
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Confederate Love Poems
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Confederate Love Poems
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Elizabeth Keckley
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Born a slave in Dinwiddie County, Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (1818–1907) purchased her freedom in 1855 and supported...
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Freedmen's Schools
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In the antebellum South, African Americans were generally prevented from receiving education. During the Civil War...
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How Did Civilians Suffer?
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White women and children were left to fend for themselves, and many became widows and orphans when one in five...
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How Did Slaves Support the Confederacy?
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Enslaved and free blacks provided even more labor than usual for Virginia farms when 89 percent of eligible white men...
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Industrialization in Virginia
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Larus & Brother Tobacco Company, Richmond, c. 1911
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James Jones Archive (1870s-1960s)
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Let Us Commence: Graduating At A Distance
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Letterhead
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Learn about letterhead in correspondence.
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Liberated Books
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During the Civil War, looting by soldiers was a common practice. The hungry soldier usually confiscated food and...