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Ambler and the Jeannette

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On July 8, 1879, the steamer the Jeannette set sail. It's goal: to be the first expedition to reach the North Pole.
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Audubon's Viviparous Quadrapeds

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Following the success of his Birds of America, John James Audubon began to gather material for an equally ambitious...
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Care Beyond National and Color Lines: Filipino Nurses in Virginia Across the 20th Century

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Photograph of Araceli Marcial and her cohort during the Chinese General Hospital School of Nursing graduation march
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Diderot's Encyclopédie

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Housed within the library collections of the museum is a complete thirty-five volume set of Diderot's Encyclopédie, ou...
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George Washington, Land Surveyor

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Survey for Richard Barnes for a tract of 400 acres in Culpeper County, George Washington, 1749
A land survey made by George Washington at age seventeen, 22 July 1749. Mss1 St824 a 1 Manuscripts
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Offense or Defense?

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Captain William T. Haskell's Sash
To win the war, United States troops needed to invade and control an unfriendly South and subdue Confederate armies...
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Richard E. Byrd

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The 1920s was marked by adulation of national heroes in various fields—aviator Charles Lindbergh, home run king Babe...
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The First Modern War?

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Painting of the Battle between the Monitor and the Merrimack
The technology of the industrial revolution applied to the science of killing made the Civil War a turning point between...
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The Regions of Virginia

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The geography of Virginia has shaped both the history and economy of the state. It brought settlers and wars to the...