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Recovering History, Reclaiming the Present: The Apalachee Diaspora since the 16th Century
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On April 7, 2022, Kimberly C. Borchard presented a lecture about the 500-year-old myth of Appalachian gold and its catastrophic consequences for the...
Remembering Queena
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This special program celebrated the opening of the Virginia Museum of History and Culture’s exhibition, "Inside Looking Out: The Art of Queena Stovall...
Research into the Best Products Archives: A Journey by Artist Scott Myles
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Reynolds Aluminum: It's the Cans!
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Rising Black Consciousness
Robert Edward Lee
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Robert Knox Sneden Chronology
Searching for Stonewall Jackson
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On January 30, 2020, Ben Cleary delivered the Banner Lecture, "Searching for Stonewall Jackson: A Quest for Legacy in a Divided America."
Thomas...
Secrets & Symbols: Cooler by George Fulton
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Cooler for water or beer, 1856
George N. Fulton (1834–1894) for David Parr’s Pottery, Richmond, Virginia
On long-term loan from The Greenbrier, White...
Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery—Where War Comes Home
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On January 22 at noon, Robert M. Poole delivered a Banner Lecture entitled "Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery—Where War Comes Home."
Writer and...
Sinnott papers
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Slavery
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Spitfire: An American WWII Fighter Pilot in the RAF
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On May 25, 2023, Preston Smith gave a fascinating lecture about his father’s service as the last U.S. pilot accepted into the ranks of the RAF during...
Surviving Southampton: Finding Women in Nat Turner’s Community
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On June 24, 2021, historian Vanessa Holden delivered a Banner Lecture about her new book about how women contributed to America’s most famous slave...
Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor (Christian Lecture 2017)
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On April 19, 2017, James M. Scott delivered the Stuart G. Christian, Jr. Lecture entitled, “Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged...
Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath
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On Thursday, May 6, 2010, the VMHC held its annual Stuart G. Christian, Jr., Lecture in the Robins Family Forum. Elizabeth and Michael Norman...
The 100th Anniversary of The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
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The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s
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On September 27, 2018, William I. Hitchcock delivered a banner lecture,“The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s.”
Once thought to...
The Battle of Hué City, South Vietnam, 1968
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On August 20, 2009, Lt. Gen. G. R. (Ron) Christmas, USMC (Ret.) delivered a Banner Lecture entitled “The Battle of Hué City, South Vietnam, 1968.”
Th...
The Bedford Boys (Christian Lecture 2016)
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On March 17, 2016, Alex Kershaw delivered the Stuart G. Christian, Jr. Lecture entitled “The Bedford Boys.”
On June 6, 1944, nineteen boys from rural...