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A Post-WWII Mother's Day Card
A Spoon That Got Around...
Abolitionist Pitcher
Against All Odds: A True Story of Ultimate Courage and Survival in World War II
In this lecture on May 24, 2022, historian Alex Kershaw spoke about his book, Against All Odds: A True Story of Ultimate Courage and Survival in World...
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...
Aluminum and Beer
Ambler and the Jeannette
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...
An Eyewitness Account of Stonewall Jackson's Wounding
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...
Apollo: When We Went to the Moon
Arming the Commonwealth
Arthur Ashe Jr.’s Family Tree: Tracing the Blackwell Family to 1735
Audubon's The Birds of America
Audubon's Viviparous Quadrapeds
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...
Before the War
Before We Went Underground and Wireless…
Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb
On September 22, 2022, historian James Scott discussed his book about the controversial firebombing of Tokyo on March 9, 1945.
Seven minutes past...
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...