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A Life Rediscovered: The Story of Emily Winfree

An oval portrait in black and white of Emily Winfree

Emily Winfree, an African American woman who lived through slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow, never...

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A Manner Which Would Not Have Been Permitted Towards Slaves: Race, Reconstruction, and Memory in Postwar Richmond

On October 12 at 5:30 p.m., Michael D. Gorman delivered a Banner Lecture entitled “‘A Manner Which Would Not Have Been Permitted Towards Slaves’: Race...

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Almost Dead: Slavery and Social Rebirth in the Black Urban Atlantic

On August 17, 2023, historian Dr. Michael Lawrence Dickinson discussed his book on the Atlantic slave trade and how the thousands of captives who...

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An American Turning Point: The Civil War in Virginia

An American Turning Point: The Civil War in Virginia is divided into two parts that pose a series of questions. Waging War examines how the conflict was fought and Surviving War measures the impact of the war on civilian life.

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Arthur Ashe Jr.’s Family Tree: Tracing the Blackwell Family to 1735

See a rare family tree, drawn by hand on canvas, tracing Arthur Ashe, Jr.’s family.

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Beginnings of Black Education

Few black Virginians received a formal education until public schools were widely established during Reconstruction. Public

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Booker T. Washington

Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) was born enslaved on April 5, 1856, in Franklin County, Virginia. After emancipation...

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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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Civil War in Virginia

This video discusses the Civil War in Virginia. The video focuses on some of the major battles, generals, and themes of the Civil War in Virginia.

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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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Colored Knights of Pythias Helmet (c. 1890)

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Race has been a divisive issue throughout American history, and this impressive helmet tells part of the story.

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Conclusion

Throughout the twentieth century and during the past decade, apologists for John Brown have turned out imagery and

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Convict Leasing

For much of the twentieth century, convicts worked on Virginia’s roads. This practice grew out of the convict lease...

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