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Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War
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On November 16, 2011, Tony Horwitz delivered the Alexander W. Weddell Trustees lecture entitled "Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked...
More Important Than Gettysburg: The Seven Days Campaign as a Turning Point
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On July 11, 2012, Gary W. Gallagher delivered a Banner Lecture entitled "More Important Than Gettysburg: The Seven Days Campaign as a Turning Point."
...Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit: Plantation Management in the Colonial Chesapeake, 1607–1763
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On April 21, 2011, Lorena S. Walsh delivered a Banner Lecture entitled "Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit: Plantation Management in the Colonial...
Murals Inspired by the Story of Virginia
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My Father's Name: A Black Virginia Family after the Civil War
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National Reconstruction: Land Redistribution in the South and West after the Civil War
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On May 19 at noon, Adam W. Dean delivered a Banner Lecture entitled "National Reconstruction: Land Redistribution in the South and West after the...
Nature's Civil War: Common Soldiers and the Environment in 1862 Virginia
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On August 14 at noon, Kathryn Shively Meier delivered a Banner Lecture entitled "Nature's Civil War: Common Soldiers and the Environment in 1862...
Navigating Native Land and Water in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake
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On November 30, 2023, historian Jessica Taylor discussed the subject of her new book, Plain Paths and Dividing Lines: Navigating Native Land and Water...
Ocracoke: The Pearl of the Outer Banks
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On August 8, 2013, Ray McAllister delivered a Banner Lecture entitled "Ocracoke: The Pearl of the Outer Banks."
The Outer Banks have enticed...
Offense or Defense?
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Oh, Shenandoah
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Oh, Shenandoah Traveling Exhibition
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On Hallowed Ground: The Story of Arlington National Cemetery By Robert Poole
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On February 18, 2010, Robert Poole delivered a lecture on his book On Hallowed Ground: The Story of Arlington National Cemetery.
In his new book...
Our Little Monitor: The Greatest Invention of the Civil War
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On January 25, 2018, Jonathan W. White delivered a Banner Lecture entitled “Our Little Monitor: The Greatest Invention of the Civil War.”
On March 9...
Oysters in Virginia
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Pocahontas – Ambassador of Cross Culture Understanding (Pocahontas Symposium: Session 1)
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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 – Legacy, Myths, Realities and Relevance (Pocahontas Symposium: Session 3)
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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 – Religion and Faith (Pocahontas Symposium: Session 2)
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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 Remembered… An Ocean Away
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Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through his Private Letters by Elizabeth Brown Pryor
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On May 24, 2007, Ms. Pryor delivered this lecture on her book, Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through his Private Letters.
Since his...