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First House: Two Centuries with Virginia's First Families
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On October 10, Mary Miley Theobald, delivered a banner lecture entitled "First House: Two Centuries with Virginia's First Families."
Conceived...
Fitzhugh Family
For the Love of Beauty: The Collections of Lora and Claiborne Robins
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Founders as Fathers: Going Home with Virginia's Revolutionary
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On October 9, 2014, Lorri Glover delivered a Banner Lecture entitled "Founders as Fathers: Going Home with Virginia's Revolutionary." Set against the...
Founding Frenemies
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Founding Frenemies: Hamilton and The Virginians
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Fraud! Controversy! And neat properties in Virginia: Things you never knew about title insurance
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From Cotton Fields to Skyscrapers: The Transformation of the South in the Twentieth Century By Paul A. Levengood
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At the dawn of the twentieth century, the South was by all measurements the poorest, most segregated region in the United States. One hundred years...
George Washington Portrait by Charles Peale Polk
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George Washington: The Making of a Leader
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In this lecture, historian David O. Stewart discusses his new book, George Washington: The Political Rise of America’s Founding Father.
Washington’s...
Glee Clubs
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Gordon Family
Grand Avenues: The Story of Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the French Visionary Who Designed Washington, D.C.
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In 1791, George Washington asked Pierre Charles L'Enfant, who had been a French volunteer during the American Revolution, to design a new federal city...
Henkel Press
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Historic Disasters of Richmond
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On January 18 at 5:30 p.m., Walter S. Griggs, Jr. delivered a Banner Lecture entitled “Historic Disasters of Richmond.”
Richmond has had its share of...
How Imperfect is Our Past? A Conversation with Charles Bryan
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On March 15, 2022, Dr. Charles Bryan and VMHC president and CEO Jamie Bosket had a conversation about some of the topics covered in Dr. Bryan’s latest...
In Pursuit of Jefferson: Traveling through Europe with the Most Perplexing Founding Father
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On August 25th, 2022 writer Derek Baxter held a lecture about his book, In Pursuit of Jefferson: Traveling through Europe with the Most Perplexing...
Industrialization in Virginia
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Inside Looking Out
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Inside the Jemima Code: The Joy of African American Cooking
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On April 6, 2018, Toni Tipton-Martin presented a Banner Lecture about her book, “Inside the Jemima Code: The Joy of African American Cooking.”
Women...