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What Caused the Civil War
This video looks at the question "What Caused the Civil War." The video specifically looks at differences between the North and South and the outbreak...
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What's For Breakfast?
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This toaster was made possible by the invention of a wire made of nickel and chromium that could be heated quickly to a...
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Who Freed the Enslaved People?
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Two years of fighting changed what the war was about. Beginning in 1863, the North no longer fought only to save the...
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Who Looks at Lee Must Think of Washington By Robert Tilton
In his 1866 poem, “Lee in the Capitol,” Herman Melville portrays a dignified Robert E. Lee advocating reconciliation before the Congressional...
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Who Was American?
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By 1861, the United States population was steadily growing more diverse. Most nineteenth-century immigrants settled in...
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Who was Oliver Hill?
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The VMHC has a group of items that belonged to Oliver W. Hill, Sr., a prominent Richmond civil rights attorney, donated...
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Why Richmond?
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Once Virginia seceded, the Confederate government moved the capital to Richmond, the South’s second largest city. The...
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Women in Virginia
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Learn about how women in the early 20th century lived in Virginia.
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World War II Stamp Corsage (c. 1942)
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During World War II, Clair Bugg of Farmville became a kind of walking advertisement for the war effort: She wore this...
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Yearbooks
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View select images from yearbooks in the society's collections.