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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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"That part of America, now called Virginia"

In 1590, John White published the first separate map of “Virginia” and the first printed record of Sir Walter Raleigh’s...

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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 Landscape Saved

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

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A Landscape Saved: The Garden Club of Virginia at 100

The landscape of the state is enchanting and, when threatened, Garden Club members unite to educate themselves and the...

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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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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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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Ambler and the Jeannette

On July 8, 1879, the steamer the Jeannette set sail. It's goal: to be the first expedition to reach the North Pole.

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American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race (Christian Lecture 2019)

On April 17, 2019, Douglas Brinkley delivered the 2019 Stuart G. Christian, Jr. Lecture, "American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race...

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Apollo to the Moon: A History in Objects

On July 20, 2023, historian and curator Teasel Muir-Harmony gave a lecture on the Apollo program, told through key objects of the Space Age. Project...

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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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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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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...

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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...