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Curators At Home: From the Vault
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This program from May 1, 2020, is part of our Curators At Home Series taped by curatorial staff members from their own homes as they worked remotely...
Curators at Work: The Watercolor in Virginia
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The Watercolor in Virginia: A Survey of Paintings from the Present and the Past
One way that the VMHC records culture (the customs, arts, social...
Curators At Work: Treasures from the Collection
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Join members of the VMHC curatorial team as they tell their own stories about working with the museum’s remarkable collections, show rarely seen...
Inventing Disaster: The Culture of Calamity from the Jamestown Colony to the Johnstown Flood
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On February 13, 2020, Cynthia A. Kierner delivered the Banner Lecture, "Inventing Disaster: The Culture of Calamity from the Jamestown Colony to the...
Mapping Virginia: Pictures of a Moving Place, 1587–1783 by William C. Wooldridge
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On December 5, William C. Wooldridge delivered a Banner Lecture entitled "Mapping Virginia: Pictures of a Moving Place, 1587-1783."
Drawing from...
Navigating Native Land and Water in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake
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On November 30, 2023, historian Jessica Taylor discussed the subject of her new book, Plain Paths and Dividing Lines: Navigating Native Land and Water...
Pocahontas – Religion and Faith (Pocahontas Symposium: Session 2)
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Few figures from the American past are better known than the young Powhatan woman who has come down to us as “Pocahontas.” Her fame began in her own...
The History Crisis in America: Myth and Reality
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On July 9 at noon, Charles F. Bryan, Jr., delivered a Banner Lecture entitled "The History Crisis in America: Myth and Reality."
History occupies a...