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American City, Southern Place: Richmond on the Eve of War
On March 10, 2011, Gregg Kimball delivered a Banner Lecture entitled "American City, Southern Place: Richmond on the Eve of War."
As a city of the...
American Visions: The United States, 1800–1860
On November 8, 2023, award-winning author Edward Ayers delivered a lecture about his book, American Visions: The United States, 1800–1860.
The early...
Arthur Ashe Jr.’s Family Tree: Tracing the Blackwell Family to 1735
Audubon's The Birds of America
Audubon's Viviparous Quadrapeds
Becoming an Author: Amélie Rives’s Audacious Entrance into Publishing by Jane Censer Turner
On April 28, 2022, historian Jane Turner Censer presented a lecture about the literary career of Amélie Rives.
By 1890, Amélie Rives was well-known...
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 400...
Before the War
Before We Went Underground and Wireless…
Bookplates
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...
Broadsides
Captain John Smith
Care Beyond National and Color Lines: Filipino Nurses in Virginia Across the 20th Century
Carillon: The Story of a Richmond Community
On November 14, 2013, Elizabeth O'Leary delivered a Banner Lecture entitled "Carillon: The Story of a Richmond Community."
An active community...
Clarise Sears Ramsey
Colored Knights of Pythias Helmet (c. 1890)
Conclusion
Conclusion - Did the Civil War End at Appomattox?
Confessions of a Southern Church
On April 27, 2023, writer Christopher Graham delivered a lecture about his book, Faith, Race, and the Lost Cause: Confessions of a Southern Church.
W...