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A Better Life for Their Children:

Two people hold an ornately frame painted portrait of two people in early 1900s dress

From 1912-37, the Rosenwald schools program built 5,357 schools, shops, and teacher’s homes across 15 Southern and...

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Across Time: Robinson House, Its Land and People

On February 28, 2019, Elizabeth L. O’Leary delivered the Banner Lecture, “Across Time: Robinson House, Its Land and People.”

What is that building...

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An Artist's Story: Civil War Drawings by Edwin Forbes

Learn about the Civil War drawings created by Civil Soldier Edwin Forbes.

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Audubon's The Birds of America

In the VMHC collections are several rare editions of his work, including a first edition of Viviparous Quadrupeds and...

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Bookplates

The use of bookplates is almost as old as printing itself. They were used to record ownership and to reassure the owner...

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Bound to the Fire: How Virginia’s Enslaved Cooks Helped Invent American Cuisine

In grocery store aisles and kitchens across the country, smiling images of “Aunt Jemima” and other historical and fictional black cooks can be found...

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Carillon: The Story of a Richmond Community

On November 14, 2013, Elizabeth O'Leary delivered a Banner Lecture entitled "Carillon: The Story of a Richmond Community."

An active community...

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Christmas in the Trenches

Read excerpts from soldiers' letters home about their Christmas meals while stationed away from home.

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Clarise Sears Ramsey

Charlotte Clarise Sears Risley Harrold Ramsey (1867–1922), whose parents were Joseph Henry Risley and Mary Elizabeth...

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Confederate Love Poems

The most prominent Civil War poetry is poetry of the battlefield.

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