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Virginia’s Traffic in the Atlantic World
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W. E. B. Du Bois and the NAACP
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...
War Stories: Commemorating the Centennial of World War I
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Washington Traveling Exhibition
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Washington's Mentor: Governor Dinwiddie's Correspondence, 1751-58
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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...
Werowocomoco and Fairfield Plantation: Rediscovering the Forgotten Landscapes of Gloucester County
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On April 2, 2009, David Brown and Thane Harpole delivered this lecture entitled “Werowocomoco and Fairfield Plantation: Rediscovering the Forgotten...
What Made George Washington Tick
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George Washington very much wanted to be famous. Yet, he did not wish to be known, and there is a remoteness about him that will perhaps always remain...
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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Woodrow Wilson
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Woodrow Wilson: Across Three Centuries (Wilkinson Lecture 2014)
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On October 15, A. Scott Berg delivered the 2014 J. Harvie Wilkinson, Jr., Lecture entitled "Woodrow Wilson: Across Three Centuries."
One hundred...
WW1 America Curator Talk with Brian Horrigan
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On February 15, 2018, Brian Horrigan spoke at the Virginia Museum of History & Culture about the exhibition WW1 America during the exhibition's Member...