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"Hidden Figure" of GPS (Commonwealth Classroom)

In this virtual event on February 19, 2021, VMHC Curator Karen Sherry led audiences in a conversation with Dr. Gladys West. Dr. West, a Dinwiddie...

Exhibition

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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A House Built of Virginia Stone

Photograph of the Government Island Quarry

Approximately forty miles south of Washington, D.C., the Aquia sandstone quarry on Government Island sits quietly in the...

Exhibition

A Landscape Saved

This exhibition celebrated the efforts in preservation and horticulture made by the Garden Club of Virginia during its...

General Content

A Material World Traveling Exhibition

A Material World is a touring exhibition traveling to venues beginning in 2018.

Time Period Chapter

A New Virginia

In the early twentieth century, the nation’s economy was becoming more industrialized and its population more urbanized.

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Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade

On January 26, 2012, Maurie D. McInnis delivered a lecture entitled "Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade."

In 1853 Eyre Crowe, a young...

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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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Airship ROMA: A Forgotten Tragedy

On February 9, Nancy E. Sheppard delivered a Banner Lecture entitled “Airship ROMA: A Forgotten Tragedy.”

In March 1921, Maj. John G. Thornell and...

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All In Together

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American City, Southern Place: Richmond on the Eve of War

On March 10, 2011, Gregg Kimball delivered a Banner Lecture entitled "American City, Southern Place: Richmond on the Eve of War."

As a city of the...

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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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Audubon's Viviparous Quadrapeds

Following the success of his Birds of America, John James Audubon began to gather material for an equally ambitious...

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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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Broadsides

Broadsides, or broadsheets, are items printed on one side of a sheet of paper and generally posted or distributed as...

Article Set - Chapter

Byrd Family

A man driven by enormous ambition, William Byrd II of Westover was an exceptional figure in colonial America. Educated in

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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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Changing the Commonwealth with Crayons

A photograph of Bellen Woodard and her More Than Peach Project.

When she was in the third grade, a classmate asked her to pass the “skin-colored” crayon—a familiar request heard at her...

Article Set - Intro

Civil Rights Movement in Virginia

The civil rights movement of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s was one phase in the longer black freedom struggle that began when the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619 and continues today.