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1619: Jamestown and the Forging of American Democracy
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On October 17, 2018, James Horn delivered the J. Harvie Wilkinson, Jr. Lecture, “1619: Jamestown and the Forging of American Democracy.”
Along the...
A Better Life for Their Children
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A Constitutional Commonwealth
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On July 13, 2023, historian and author Brent Tarter lead a discussion of his new book, Constitutional History of Virginia, covering more than 300...
A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
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On May 27, 2010, James Horn discussed his book A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke.
In 1587, a small band...
A Landscape Saved: The Garden Club of Virginia at 100
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A Nation of Deadbeats: An Uncommon History of America's Financial Disasters
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On November 8, 2012, Scott Reynolds Nelson delivered a Banner Lecture entitled "A Nation of Deadbeats: An Uncommon History of America's Financial...
A New Era in Building: Black Educational Activism in Goochland County, 1911–1932
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Join historians Brian Daugherity and Alyce Miller for a lecture about Black educational activism in Goochland County in the early twentieth century.
...A Saga of the New South: Race, Law, and Public Debt in Virginia
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On March 16, Brent Tarter delivered a Banner Lecture entitled “A Saga of the New South: Race, Law, and Public Debt in Virginia.”
A Saga of the New...
A. D. Price Funeral Establishment
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In this video, Lauranett Lee, former Curator of African American History, discusses the A. D. Price Funeral Establishment, one of the oldest African...
Agents of Change
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Airship ROMA: A Forgotten Tragedy
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On February 9, Nancy E. Sheppard delivered a Banner Lecture entitled “Airship ROMA: A Forgotten Tragedy.”
In March 1921, Maj. John G. Thornell and...
Arming the Commonwealth
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Arthur Ashe Jr.’s Family Tree: Tracing the Blackwell Family to 1735
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Before We Went Underground and Wireless…
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Beginnings of Black Education
Booker T. Washington, Julius Rosenwald, and the Building of Schools for the Segregated South
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On May 16, 2013, Stephanie Deutsch delivered a Banner Lecture entitled "Booker T. Washington, Julius Rosenwald, and the Building of Schools for the...
Booker T. Washington
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Bound to the Fire: How Virginia’s Enslaved Cooks Helped Invent American Cuisine
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In grocery store aisles and kitchens across the country, smiling images of “Aunt Jemima” and other historical and fictional black cooks can be found...
Care Beyond National and Color Lines: Filipino Nurses in Virginia Across the 20th Century
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Christmas in the Trenches
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