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A New Era in Building: Black Educational Activism in Goochland County, 1911–1932

Join historians Brian Daugherity and Alyce Miller for a lecture about Black educational activism in Goochland County in the early twentieth century.

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Advice and Etiquette Books

A Book Every Body Should Possess. This simple statement highlights the importance placed on advice and etiquette books...

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Beginnings of Black Education

Few black Virginians received a formal education until public schools were widely established during Reconstruction. Public

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Booker T. Washington, Julius Rosenwald, and the Building of Schools for the Segregated South

On May 16, 2013, Stephanie Deutsch delivered a Banner Lecture entitled "Booker T. Washington, Julius Rosenwald, and the Building of Schools for the...

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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

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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. Much of the civil rights movement was seen on television. Because the most notorious events and horrific images were from the Deep South, Virginia's role in the movement tends to be overlooked. It was in Virginia, however, that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) filed more lawsuits than in any other state, and Virginia's program of Massive Resistance, though ultimately futile, showed how to slow the march for integration to a crawl.

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Commencement

Learn more about items related to commencement exercises in the VHS collections.

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Confederate Imprints

Items published in the Confederate States during the Civil War are known as Confederate imprints. These imprints...

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Copies and Adaptations of de Bry

For more than two centuries, the 1590 engravings of Virginia Indians by de Bry and van Veen were copied for other

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Curators At Work: New to the Collection

Every year, the VMHC adds hundreds of items to its already vast collections. Some of these improve our understanding of Virginia’s history, while...

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Death and Rebirth in a Southern City: Richmond's Historic Cemeteries

On April 8, 2021, Ryan K. Smith presented an exploration of the history and recovery of the burial grounds of Richmond, Virginia, through the lens of...

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Determined

Two Black female students protesting school closures by marching with posters

This exhibition examined the long history of black Americans in North America as they have fought for freedom, equal...

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Determined Traveling Exhibition

Bring Determined to your venue! Learn how you can bring our Determined: The 400-Year Struggle for Black Equality...

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Education in Virginia

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Possum Hollow Schoolhouse, Floyd County, 1910

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Establishing Religious Freedom: Jefferson’s Statute in Virginia

On July 24 at noon, Thomas E. Buckley delivered a Banner Lecture entitled "Establishing Religious Freedom: Jefferson's Statute in Virginia."

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Freedmen's Schools

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In the antebellum South, African Americans were generally prevented from receiving education. During the Civil War...

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Fresh Paint

This unprecedented exhibition explored the power of murals to encourage reflection on Virginia’s past by inviting...

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Hampton Institute and Booker T. Washington

Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute was founded in 1868 by General Samuel Armstrong. He was interested in moral

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Henkel Press

In 1806, Ambrose and Solomon Henkel started one of the first German language presses in the South. The press began as an...

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How Imperfect is Our Past? A Conversation with Charles Bryan

On March 15, 2022, Dr. Charles Bryan and VMHC president and CEO Jamie Bosket had a conversation about some of the topics covered in Dr. Bryan’s latest...