The search results below contain listings from our website. To search our library and museum collections catalogs, please visit the Collections page.
National Reconstruction: Land Redistribution in the South and West after the Civil War
![](/sites/default/files/oembed_thumbnails/B-fEeo15Bw93KqAeB_A1z8MMe1r67eKHrlx3cnEwR54.jpg)
On May 19 at noon, Adam W. Dean delivered a Banner Lecture entitled "National Reconstruction: Land Redistribution in the South and West after the...
Native Southerners: The Indigenous People Who Made and Remade the South
![](/sites/default/files/oembed_thumbnails/2Zt3aonn5-EU0Col3qO7GhA8CtUtmCfRsc_tC_nSmQ0.jpg)
On May 9, 2019, Gregory D. Smithers delivered the Banner Lecture, “Native Southerners: The Indigenous People Who Made and Remade the South.”
Long...
Navigating Native Land and Water in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake
![](/sites/default/files/oembed_thumbnails/a7EsUBAB_QFq45kEaxrxFwzdm_Cvtkz8somIF0265Gg.jpg)
On November 30, 2023, historian Jessica Taylor discussed the subject of her new book, Plain Paths and Dividing Lines: Navigating Native Land and Water...
New Normals for the Old Dominion
![](/sites/default/files/styles/fp_landscape_768x576/public/NewNormal_lb1972-r3-b7_seniorteaching-e1417037502540.jpeg.webp?itok=9ppmIdnF)
Oysters in Virginia
![VHE_Oysters_OysterCan_Teaser.jpg VHE_Oysters_OysterCan_Teaser.jpg](/sites/default/files/styles/fp_landscape_768x576/public/VHE_Oysters_OysterCan_Teaser.jpg.webp?itok=2BC7sR7V)
Patrick Henry Arguing the Parsons’ Cause
![79295e56bc070b2a46410264f019e5ec.jpg 79295e56bc070b2a46410264f019e5ec.jpg](/sites/default/files/styles/fp_landscape_768x576/public/79295e56bc070b2a46410264f019e5ec.jpg.webp?itok=2gN652fQ)
Patrick Henry: Champion of Liberty
![](/sites/default/files/oembed_thumbnails/xprFyUHYt1imfDjBx7lDQ4z21D2VM7lRyMI_WLIlCQc.jpg)
On August 24, 2017, Jon Kukla delivered a Banner Lecture entitled “Patrick Henry: Champion of Liberty.”
Patrick Henry is remembered today mostly for...
Perspectives on American Democracy
![](/sites/default/files/oembed_thumbnails/rsNyPjnGaHtQazGn_Wjs1-XjXhCCwESP4XREyy3knn0.jpg)
As part of The Richmond Times-Dispatch's live election night coverage of the 2022 mid-terms, Matt Pochily explored the American Democracy: A Great...
Pocahontas and the Powhatan Nation
![Powhatan.jpg Powhatan.jpg](/sites/default/files/styles/fp_landscape_768x576/public/Powhatan.jpg.webp?itok=KVnaJXVC)
Political Sheet Music
![Never Swap Horses When You're Crossing a Stream Never Swap Horses When You're Crossing a Stream](/sites/default/files/styles/fp_landscape_768x576/public/VHE_Political%20music_NeverSwapHorses.jpg.webp?itok=wXxa00If)
Racial Inequality
![BookerTWashington.2006.200.jpg BookerTWashington.2006.200.jpg](/sites/default/files/styles/fp_landscape_768x576/public/BookerTWashington.2006.200.jpg.webp?itok=Kfqz7j1l)
Reclamation: How a Monticello Descendant Uncovered and Restored Her Family’s Heritage
![](/sites/default/files/oembed_thumbnails/eNPNrHsIqwvpimWWn2HGTVPlsg5fzcyYnCyJJlOm5vE.jpg)
Join Gayle Jessup White, author of Reclamation: Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a Descendant’s Search for Her Family’s Lasting Legacy, as she...
Reconciliation
Reconstruction
![Flag.1992.189_sil.jpg Flag.1992.189_sil.jpg](/sites/default/files/styles/fp_landscape_768x576/public/Flag.1992.189_sil.jpg.webp?itok=7-EcTTNs)
Recovering History, Reclaiming the Present: The Apalachee Diaspora since the 16th Century
![](/sites/default/files/oembed_thumbnails/Ycniqqw7tBoTU7KvUg6dxR3BsAwHPxldeDgy-hk5dks.jpg)
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...
Religion and Race in the Story of Public Executions in the South
![](/sites/default/files/oembed_thumbnails/XYvoWj6wkHpq6jcW5-SBGdGYFnRMFvadB1LuiRaID4k.jpg)
On June 6, 2023, Virginia-born historian Michael Trotti as he shared stories from his research on the movement from public legal executions in the...
Restoring America’s Most Significant Gardens
![](/sites/default/files/oembed_thumbnails/fyIigUFaPWkmrcO9k2Nd4L_L434PbGRtViynOeyNHp8.jpg)
The story of the Garden Club of Virginia is colorful, courageous, and impressive. It is not a coincidence that 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the...
Retired Wake Forest University Law Professor Beth Hopkins on civil rights pioneer Daisy Bates
![](/sites/default/files/oembed_thumbnails/7sMwSGc_ptRZoJqOOSnViMbrclYMy0BtfXck5vog6ow.jpg)
This recording is of a past program by the John Marshall Center for Constitutional History & Civics, as part of a series featuring constitutional...
Richmond and the American Dream: Revolution and Reality
![](/sites/default/files/oembed_thumbnails/dWp6sTiZWAk3iQZunIbWXlOxX2vsR_lovF8AbtZJD64.jpg)
On February 4 at noon, the Rev. Benjamin P. Campbell delivered a Banner Lecture entitled “Richmond and the American Dream: Revolution and Reality.”
T...
Richmond’s part in the early automobile and racing industries
![](/sites/default/files/styles/fp_landscape_768x576/public/AutomobileRacing_crossedflags2.jpeg.webp?itok=mKFVaJtq)