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Take Care of the Living: Reconstructing Confederate Veteran Families By Jeffrey McClurken
The Civil War ended in spring 1865, but for Confederate veterans and their families, its consequences persisted far longer as they began to pick up...
The 100th Anniversary of The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
The Abduction of Pocahontas
The Battle of Five Forks
The Battle of Five Forks
The Battlefront in Virginia
The Byrd Machine in Virginia: The Rise and Fall of a Conservative Political Organization
On January 19, 2023, author and journalist Michael Lee Pope traced the history of Harry Byrd’s conservative political organization, which ran Virginia...
The Civil War
The Civil War at a Crossroads: The Seven Days
The Commonwealth and the Great War
The Constitution of Virginia: Defining the Political Community
In this October 7, 2021, lecture, A. E. Dick Howard discussed the evolution of Virginia’s Constitution from 1776 to the present day.
Virginia’s...
The Crooked Road to Civil War, 1861
On March 29, 2007, Dr. Nelson D. Lankford delivered the Stuart G. Christian, Jr., Lecture.
In early March 1861, civil war loomed. By late April...
The D.P. Newton Civil War Collection
The Deadliest Enemy?
The Death of Pocahontas
In this video Digital Outreach Educator, Rachel, discusses the death of Pocahontas in the Virginia Museum of History & Culture's long-term exhibition...
The Devil’s Half Acre – Book Talk and Discussion with Kristen Green and Dr. Carolivia Herron
On September 19th, 2022, best-selling author and journalist Kristen Green joined Dr. Carolivia Herron to discuss the subject of Green’s book and...
The Diary of a Public Man and Abraham Lincoln
On March 3, 2011, Daniel Crofts delivered a Banner Lecture entitled "The Diary of a Public Man and Abraham Lincoln."
"The Diary of a Public Man,"...
The Dooleys of Richmond: Two Generations of an Irish Immigrant Family in the Old and New South
On July 13, 2017, at noon, Mary Lynn Bayliss delivered a Banner Lecture entitled “The Dooleys of Richmond: Two Generations of an Irish Immigrant...
The First Modern War?
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...