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Before It Was Virginia: Setting the Stage

On March 16, 2012, Helen C. Rountree delivered a lecture entitled "Before It Was Virginia: Setting the Stage."
When English settlers arrived here...
Captain John Smith

Contact and Conflict

Curator Conversations: Year-End Review

In this series, VMHC curatorial staff bring exclusive member-only programs to you on a variety of interesting topics. To see upcoming events in this...
Curators at Work: Pocahontas's Virginia

The Virginia Company that sponsored the Jamestown settlement arranged for Pocahontas to travel to England in 1616. The purpose was to show her off as...
Dugout Canoe

Early Images of Virginia Indians: The William W. Cole Collection

Exploration of the New World

Fanciful Figures
Interpreting Historical Images
Invented Scenes for Narratives
Jamestown, the Truth Revealed (Chauncey Lecture 2017)

On July 19, 2017, Dr. William M. Kelso delivered the Hazel and Fulton Chauncey Lecture entitled “Jamestown, the Truth Revealed.”
What was life...
Learning History from a Charred Corn Cob

Life Portrait of Pocahontas

Murals Inspired by the Story of Virginia

Native Southerners: The Indigenous People Who Made and Remade the South

On May 9, 2019, Gregory D. Smithers delivered the Banner Lecture, “Native Southerners: The Indigenous People Who Made and Remade the South.”
Long...
Oysters in Virginia

Pocahontas – Ambassador of Cross Culture Understanding (Pocahontas Symposium: Session 1)

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...
Pocahontas and the Powhatan Nation

Pocahontas – Legacy, Myths, Realities and Relevance (Pocahontas Symposium: Session 3)

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...