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Bound to the Fire: How Virginia’s Enslaved Cooks Helped Invent American Cuisine

In grocery store aisles and kitchens across the country, smiling images of “Aunt Jemima” and other historical and fictional black cooks can be found...
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...
Determined

Determined Traveling Exhibition
Free Black People in Virginia Traveling Exhibition

Murals Inspired by the Story of Virginia

Sites and Stories: African American History in Virginia

On February 14, 2008, Lauranett Lee spoke about “Sites and Stories: African American History in Virginia.”
Historic highway markers are beloved...
The First Thanksgiving

On October 13, 2011, Graham Woodlief and Barbara Ramos delivered their lecture entitled "The First Thanksgiving."
Because of what they learned in...
The History Crisis in America: Myth and Reality

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...
The Story of Virginia: The Arrival of the First Africans

In this lecture, historian and author Ric Murphy tells the fascinating story of the arrival of the first Africans in Virginia in 1619.
Based on his...