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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...

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A Constitutional Commonwealth

On July 13, 2023, historian and author Brent Tarter lead a discussion of his new book, Constitutional History of Virginia, covering more than 300...

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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...

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A Nation of Deadbeats: An Uncommon History of America's Financial Disasters

On November 8, 2012, Scott Reynolds Nelson delivered a Banner Lecture entitled "A Nation of Deadbeats: An Uncommon History of America's Financial...

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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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A Saga of the New South: Race, Law, and Public Debt in Virginia

On March 16, Brent Tarter delivered a Banner Lecture entitled “A Saga of the New South: Race, Law, and Public Debt in Virginia.”

A Saga of the New...

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A Spoon That Got Around...

A silver spoon propped on a plastic block

This silver serving spoon, labeled as “A Spoon That Got Around," was on view in The Story of Virginia exhibition in the...

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A. D. Price Funeral Establishment

In this video, Lauranett Lee, former Curator of African American History, discusses the A. D. Price Funeral Establishment, one of the oldest African...

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Abolitionist Pitcher

Learn about how this pitcher based on Uncle Tom's Cabin was used as propoganda in the mid-1800s.

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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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Aluminum and Beer

Reynolds established its Can Division in 1963, and in that same year developed the first all-aluminum, twelve-ounce can.

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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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Apollo: When We Went to the Moon

The crew of Apollo 11: 3 astronauts in full space suits hold space helmets in front of a backdrop depicting the moon

Through objects and artifacts from the U.S. Space & Rocket Center’s archives, this exhibition explores the social and...

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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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Before We Went Underground and Wireless…

Edwin Fisher Conger loved trees—especially chestnuts, those tall, majestic perennials from which he would eventually...

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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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Business Archives & The Chesapeake Corporation

Collections of business records arrive for safekeeping and preservation at the VMHC in a variety of ways.

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Care Beyond National and Color Lines: Filipino Nurses in Virginia Across the 20th Century

Photograph of Araceli Marcial and her cohort during the Chinese General Hospital School of Nursing graduation march

As of Winter 2021, Virginia remains among the top ten states for largest Filipino American populations, and by no...

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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...

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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.