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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 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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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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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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Christmas in the Trenches

Read excerpts from soldiers' letters home about their Christmas meals while stationed away from home.

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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.

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Colonial Cookbooks

Food and dining were integral to social life in the eighteenth century, particularly among the upper class. The gentry...

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Cookbooks (Advertising)

By the twentieth century, there was a tremendous burst of interest in cooking as a variety of new processed foods became...

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Curators at Work: Virginia's Brewed Past

Did you know that September includes holidays like “Crush a Can Day” and “National Drink Beer Day”? In recent years, Virginia’s craft beer scene has...

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Dugout Canoe

The dugout canoe was an Indian concept but one so well suited to the Virginia rivers that Europeans and Africans also...

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Equal Access to Public Accommodations

Although integrating the nation's schools was the first priority of the civil rights movement, the denial of equal access to

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From Horse-Driven to Gas-Fueled Transportation

Photograph of the Progress Manufacturing Company

This gravity-flow pump (c. 1927), used near Petersburg, Virginia, is evidence of the state’s transition from horse...

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From Richmond to France: Images and Stories of Richmond and Her World War I Soldiers

On July 12, 2018, Kitty Snow delivered the banner lecture, “From Richmond to France: Images and Stories of Richmond and Her World War I Soldiers.”

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Historic Disasters of Richmond

On January 18 at 5:30 p.m., Walter S. Griggs, Jr. delivered a Banner Lecture entitled “Historic Disasters of Richmond.”

Richmond has had its share...

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Inside the Jemima Code: The Joy of African American Cooking

On April 6, 2018, Toni Tipton-Martin presented a Banner Lecture about her book, “Inside the Jemima Code: The Joy of African American Cooking.”

Wome...

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Jacob L. "JL" Morewitz

Jacob L. “JL” Morewitz was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1896 but raised in Norfolk, Virginia. In 1916, at the age of...

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Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition

On November 14, Daniel Okrent delivered the 2012 Alexander W. Weddell Lecture entitled "Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition."

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Movie Mythbusting: Thanksgiving

In this program with VMHC Education, learn about the myths and real history surrounding Thanksgiving in America.