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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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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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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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James Jones Archive (1870s-1960s)
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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...
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Maggie Lena Walker
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Learn about Maggie Lena Walker, the first female bank president in America.
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Men of Color To Arms?
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When the war began, many black Americans—North and South—volunteered to serve as soldiers. United by a belief in black...
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Murals Inspired by the Story of Virginia
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Offense or Defense?
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To win the war, United States troops needed to invade and control an unfriendly South and subdue Confederate armies...
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Opiate Addiction in the Civil War's Aftermath
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Richmond in the Midst of the Civil War
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In the earliest days of the war, few expected it to endure for four years. As the Confederate capital, Richmond...
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Robert E. Lee after the War
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After the Civil War, Robert E. Lee left his life in the military and accepted the position of president of Washington...