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Knights of the Golden Circle: Secret Empire, Secession, Civil War
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On June 13, 2013, David C. Keehn delivered a Banner Lecture entitled "Knights of the Golden Circle: Secret Empire, Secession, Civil War."
The Knights...
Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
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Leadership and Decision-Making in the D-Day Invasion (Christian Lecture 2015)
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On May 14, Craig L. Symonds delivered the 2015 Stuart G. Christian, Jr. Lecture entitled “Leadership and Decision-Making in the D-Day Invasion.”
On...
Lee at Appomattox (Chauncey Lecture 2014)
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On June 5, 2014, Elizabeth R. Varon delivered the 2014 Hazel and Fulton Chauncey Lecture, "Lee at Appomattox."
Robert E. Lee's surrender to Ulysses S...
Lee's Last War Winter
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On April 22 at 5:30 p.m., William C. Davis delivered a Banner Lecture entitled "Lee's Last War Winter."
Robert E. Lee faced the coming of 1865’s...
“Letters from a Soviet Prison: A Son’s Search for the Truth”
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On May 1, 2018, Francis Gary Powers, Jr., presented a Banner Lecture about his book, Letters from a Soviet Prison: A Son’s Search for the Truth. For...
Lincoln and McClellan
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On May 12, 2011, John C. Waugh delivered a Banner Lecture entitled "Lincoln and McClellan."
There was no more remarkable yoking of personalities in...
Lincoln’s Spies: Their Secret War to Save a Nation
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On January 23, 2020, Douglas Waller delivered the Banner Lecture, "Lincoln’s Spies: Their Secret War to Save a Nation." Lincoln’s Spies is a story...
Lost in Shangri-La: A Story of Survival and Rescue during World War II
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On April 5, 2012, Mitchell Zuckoff delivered the annual Stuart G. Christian, Jr., Lecture entitled "Lost in Shangri-La: A Story of Survival and Rescue...
More Important Than Gettysburg: The Seven Days Campaign as a Turning Point
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On July 11, 2012, Gary W. Gallagher delivered a Banner Lecture entitled "More Important Than Gettysburg: The Seven Days Campaign as a Turning Point."
...Movie Mythbusting: Liberty's Kids
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Crossing the Delaware: a holiday classic... or was it? Learn the truth behind Washington's role in this historic event with this edition of Movie...
Movie Mythbusting: Thanksgiving
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In this program with VMHC Education, learn about the myths and real history surrounding Thanksgiving in America.
Native Southerners: The Indigenous People Who Made and Remade the South
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On May 9, 2019, Gregory D. Smithers delivered the Banner Lecture, “Native Southerners: The Indigenous People Who Made and Remade the South.”
Long...
Nature's Civil War: Common Soldiers and the Environment in 1862 Virginia
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On August 14 at noon, Kathryn Shively Meier delivered a Banner Lecture entitled "Nature's Civil War: Common Soldiers and the Environment in 1862...
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...
Ocracoke: The Pearl of the Outer Banks
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On August 8, 2013, Ray McAllister delivered a Banner Lecture entitled "Ocracoke: The Pearl of the Outer Banks."
The Outer Banks have enticed...
On the Back Roads Again: More People, Places, and Pie Around Virginia
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On October 20 at noon, Bob Brown and Bill Lohmann delivered a Banner Lecture entitled “On the Back Roads Again: More People, Places, and Pie Around...
Our Little Monitor: The Greatest Invention of the Civil War
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On January 25, 2018, Jonathan W. White delivered a Banner Lecture entitled “Our Little Monitor: The Greatest Invention of the Civil War.”
On March 9...
Play ball! America’s Doughboys and the National Pastime in the Great War
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On August 29, 2019, Alexander F. Barnes delivered the Banner Lecture, “Play ball! America's Doughboys and the National Pastime in the Great War.” In...
Pocahontas – Ambassador of Cross Culture Understanding (Pocahontas Symposium: Session 1)
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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...