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Lila (Meade) Valentine
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Lila (Meade) Valentine (1865–1921), president of the Equal Suffrage League, championed causes of health and education...
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Love and War
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Though it has torn many asunder, war has also brought people together.
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Maggie Lena Walker
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Maggie Lena Walker (1864–1934) was the daughter of Elizabeth Draper, a former kitchen slave and then cook in the Civil...
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Mary-Cooke Branch Munford
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Learn how Mary-Cooke Branch Munford helped improve education in Virginia.
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Mending Walls RVA
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This pop-up exhibition and community collaboration featured a diverse group of artists creating public artwork as a tool...
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Murals Inspired by the Story of Virginia
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Richmond is now home to more than 100 outdoor murals, and this popular form of artwork reflects the city’s modernity and...
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Nancy Langhorne Shaw Astor
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Viscountess Astor (1879–1964) was the first woman to take a seat in the British House of Commons. Nancy was born in...
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New Normals for the Old Dominion
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The State Normal Schools for Women, so called because they set the norms (or standards) for teaching, were born out of a...
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Oysters in Virginia
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Learn about the history of oyster in Virginia's food culture, tourism, and economy.
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Racial Inequality
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Confederate defeat threatened to change white southern identity. Suddenly African Americans were free to determine the...
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Reclamation: How a Monticello Descendant Uncovered and Restored Her Family’s Heritage
Join Gayle Jessup White, author of Reclamation: Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a Descendant’s Search for Her Family’s Lasting Legacy, as she...
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Restoring America’s Most Significant Gardens
The story of the Garden Club of Virginia is colorful, courageous, and impressive. It is not a coincidence that 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the...
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Retired Wake Forest University Law Professor Beth Hopkins on civil rights pioneer Daisy Bates
This recording is of a past program by the John Marshall Center for Constitutional History & Civics, as part of a series featuring constitutional...
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Reynolds Aluminum: It's the Cans!
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David P. Reynolds was the last member of his family to lead Reynolds Metals, which was founded in 1919 by his father...
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Richmond’s part in the early automobile and racing industries
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James Allen Kline (1874–1944), a bicycle maker in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, became fascinated with automobiles and the...
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Ripped from the Headlines
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In 1885, the sensational murder trial that made headlines throughout Virginia and across the United States ( The New...
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Road Trippin’
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Since its beginnings, the automobile has represented entertainment as much as practicality. It brought new excitement to...
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Round Robins of the Pollard Family
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The basic letter was the normal way to communicate throughout most of history, but the idea of having people use a...
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Rural Life in Virginia
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Learn more about rural life and agricultural history in Virginia.
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Scandal in Virginia
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The salacious love life of Warren Seymour Lurty, now memorialized in boxes and boxes of letters, proves to us that...