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The Christopher Werle Collection
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Learn about Christopher Werle's work in Kuwait during the Persian Gulf War.
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The D.P. Newton Civil War Collection
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Danny Patrick (D.P.) Newton caught the Civil War bug as a child, accompanying his father Patrick on excursions through...
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The Deadliest Enemy?
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It wasn’t bullets, but bacteria and viruses. Antibiotics and antiviral drugs—the effective treatments against these...
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The First Modern War?
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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 Twentieth Century: Cities, Cars, and Civil Rights
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Technological revolutions, increased urbanization, and advances in civil rights created the commonwealth we know today.
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Thomas Jonathan Jackson
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Learn about "Stonewall" Jackson and read an eyewitness account of his wounding during the Civil War.
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United States Colored Troops Muster Rolls
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Organized at Camp Stanton in Benedict, Maryland, in February 1864, the 30th USCT served in spring campaigns in Virginia...
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Victory Gardens
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First promoted during World War I, war gardening, or victory gardens, provided American citizens an opportunity to...
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Virginia Home for Boys
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The Virginia Home for Boys (now the Virginia Home for Boys and Girls) was founded in 1843 as the Richmond Male Orphan...
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Walter Washington Foster Glass Plate Negatives Collection
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Originally from Norfolk, Walter Washington Foster relocated to Richmond, where he worked in partnership with other...
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War or Murder?
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Throughout the war, both sides sought a single decisive victory long after it was clear that no such event was...
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War Stories: Commemorating the Centennial of World War I
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World War I had a dramatic impact on the nation and our Commonwealth. For Virginia, perhaps one of the most significant...
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Who Was American?
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By 1861, the United States population was steadily growing more diverse. Most nineteenth-century immigrants settled in...
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Who was Oliver Hill?
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The VMHC has a group of items that belonged to Oliver W. Hill, Sr., a prominent Richmond civil rights attorney, donated...
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Why Richmond?
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Once Virginia seceded, the Confederate government moved the capital to Richmond, the South’s second largest city. The...
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World War II Stamp Corsage (c. 1942)
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During World War II, Clair Bugg of Farmville became a kind of walking advertisement for the war effort: She wore this...
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WWI Military Toys
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These figures, dressed in Red Cross uniforms and English Brodie helmets worn during the First World War, were created by...