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The Weddells
Thomas Sully's Portrait of Pocahontas
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Timeline of the Weddells
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Today’s Agents of Change with the Virginia Museum of History & Culture
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In honor of the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment in the United States granting women the right to vote, the Commonwealth of...
Virginia and Women’s Suffrage
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Virginia Waterways and the Underground Railroad
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Enslaved Virginians sought freedom from the time they were first brought to the Jamestown colony in 1619. Acts of self-emancipation were aided by...
Virginia's Colonial Dynasties
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Virginia's Confederate Monuments
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Hundreds of memorials in stone commemorate the Civil War in Virginia at courthouses, cemeteries, town squares, and battlefields. With An Illustrated...
Walter Washington Foster Glass Plate Negatives Collection
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War and Pieces: Quilts through America's War Years
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On Thursday, August 22, Neva Hart delivered a banner lecture entitled "War and Pieces: Quilts through America's War Years."
For soldiers in the field...
We Cannot be Tame Spectators: Four Centuries of Virginia Women's History
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From before Jamestown to our own new millennium, women have been central figures in the families and communities of the Old Dominion. In recent...
What Caused the Civil War
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This video looks at the question "What Caused the Civil War." The video specifically looks at differences between the North and South and the outbreak...
Who Looks at Lee Must Think of Washington By Robert Tilton
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In his 1866 poem, “Lee in the Capitol,” Herman Melville portrays a dignified Robert E. Lee advocating reconciliation before the Congressional...
William Cabell Rives: A Country to Serve
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On September 3 at noon, Barclay Rives delivered a Banner Lecture entitled “William Cabell Rives: A Country to Serve.”
Defying the president and...
Winnie Davis: Daughter of the Lost Cause
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On June 26, Heath Hardage Lee delivered a Banner Lecture entitled "Winnie Davis: Daughter of the Lost Cause."
Varina Anne “Winnie” Davis was the...
Women in Virginia
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Year of Meteors: Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election that Brought on the Civil War
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On March 24, 2011, Douglas R. Egerton delivered a Banner Lecture entitled "Year of Meteors: Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election that...