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What Lies Beneath: Examining Cranstone's Slave Auction, Virginia
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The museum world is brimming with tales of curators sleuthing to discover intriguing stories that lay beneath the...
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What's For Breakfast?
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This toaster was made possible by the invention of a wire made of nickel and chromium that could be heated quickly to a...
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What's Wrong with Black Beard?
On March 19 at noon, Kevin P. Duffus delivered a Banner Lecture entitled "What's Wrong with Black Beard?"
The traditional historical interpretation...
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World War II Stamp Corsage (c. 1942)
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During World War II, Clair Bugg of Farmville became a kind of walking advertisement for the war effort: She wore this...
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Wormeley Family
The Wormeley family was one of the earliest to achieve prominence in Virginia. The first Ralph Wormeley, resident in the
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WWI Military Toys
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These figures, dressed in Red Cross uniforms and English Brodie helmets worn during the First World War, were created by...