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Alexander & Virginia Weddell: A Love Story
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...
An American Turning Point: The Civil War in Virginia
An Eyewitness Account of Stonewall Jackson's Wounding
Arming the Commonwealth
Arthur Ashe Jr.’s Family Tree: Tracing the Blackwell Family to 1735
Battle of the Ironclads
This video describes the battle between the Monitor and the Merrimack. On March 8, 1862, the world's first ironclad ship, CSS Virginia, destroyed two...
Before We Went Underground and Wireless…
Beginnings of Black Education
Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington, Julius Rosenwald, and the Building of Schools for the Segregated South
On May 16, 2013, Stephanie Deutsch delivered a Banner Lecture entitled "Booker T. Washington, Julius Rosenwald, and the Building of Schools for the...
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...
Camp Greble: A Union encampment near Norfolk, Virginia
Care Beyond National and Color Lines: Filipino Nurses in Virginia Across the 20th Century
Children's Manuscripts
Christmas in the Trenches
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.
Th...