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At the Cannon’s Mouth: Battlefield Relics and the Making of Civil War Memory
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On July 27, 2023, Dr. James Broomall gave a fascinating presentation on artifacts taken from the battlefields of the Civil War that helped shape the...
Bacon's Epitaph
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Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia in the years 1675 & 1676
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Before the War
Before We Went Underground and Wireless…
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Birthday Songs for George 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...
Captivity and the British Subject in Colonial America
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On August 11th, 2022, Catherine Ingrassia held a fascinating discussion of her latest book, “Domestic Captivity and the British Subject, 1660–1750.”
...Care Beyond National and Color Lines: Filipino Nurses in Virginia Across the 20th Century
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Céloron Plate
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Christmas in the Trenches
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Clementina Rind
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Colonial Cookbooks
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Colored Knights of Pythias Helmet (c. 1890)
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Conclusion
Conclusion - Did the Civil War End at Appomattox?
Confessions of a Southern Church
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On April 27, 2023, writer Christopher Graham delivered a lecture about his book, Faith, Race, and the Lost Cause: Confessions of a Southern Church.
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Convict Leasing
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Copies and Adaptations of de Bry
Craddock-Terry Records Walk on Over to the Museum
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