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“Keep It a Holy Thing”: Lee Chapel’s Greatest Challenge
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On August 2, 2018, David Cox delivered a banner lecture, “‘Keep It a Holy Thing’: Lee Chapel’s Greatest Challenge.”
The chapel that Robert E. Lee...
Across Time: Robinson House, Its Land and People
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On February 28, 2019, Elizabeth L. O’Leary delivered the Banner Lecture, “Across Time: Robinson House, Its Land and People.”
What is that building...
Advice and Etiquette Books
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An Artist's Story: Civil War Drawings by Edwin Forbes
Bookplates
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Byrd Family
Children's Manuscripts
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Colonial Cookbooks
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Confederate Love Poems
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Copies and Adaptations of de Bry
Curators at Home: A Letter is Worth a Thousand Words
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This program from May 22, 2020, is part of our Curators At Home Series taped by curatorial staff members from their own homes as they worked remotely...
Curators At Home: From the Vault
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This program from May 1, 2020, is part of our Curators At Home Series taped by curatorial staff members from their own homes as they worked remotely...
Curators at Work: The Watercolor in Virginia
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The Watercolor in Virginia: A Survey of Paintings from the Present and the Past
One way that the VMHC records culture (the customs, arts, social...
Curators At Work: Treasures from the Collection
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Join members of the VMHC curatorial team as they tell their own stories about working with the museum’s remarkable collections, show rarely seen...
Determined
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Documents and Drawings: "The Private Jefferson" Examined
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On December 10, Susan R. Stein delivered a Banner Lecture called “Documents and Drawings: 'The Private Jefferson' Examined.”
Thomas Jefferson devoted...
Establishing Religious Freedom: Jefferson’s Statute in Virginia
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On July 24 at noon, Thomas E. Buckley delivered a Banner Lecture entitled "Establishing Religious Freedom: Jefferson's Statute in Virginia."
The...
Eye of the Storm: The Civil War Drawings of Robert Knox Sneden
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Fanciful Figures
First Dads: Parenting and Politics from George Washington to Barack Obama
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On June 2 at noon, Joshua Kendall delivered a Banner Lecture entitled "First Dads: Parenting and Politics from George Washington to Barack Obama."
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