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1825 to 1860

2023 Hazel and Fulton Chauncey Lecture - The Jeffersonians

On July 19, 2023, historian and bestselling author, Kevin R. C. Gutzman, presented the 2023 Hazel and Fulton Chauncey Lecture. Before the consecutive...
A Beardless Boy of Seventeen Years

A Connected Legacy: John Marshall and George Washington

A Life Rediscovered: The Story of Emily Winfree

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...
Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade

On January 26, 2012, Maurie D. McInnis delivered a lecture entitled "Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade."
In 1853 Eyre Crowe, a young...
Abolitionist Pitcher

Across Time: Robinson House, Its Land and People

On February 28, 2019, Elizabeth L. O’Leary delivered the Banner Lecture, “Across Time: Robinson House, Its Land and People.”
What is that building...
Advice and Etiquette Books

Aftermath
Almost Dead: Slavery and Social Rebirth in the Black Urban Atlantic

On August 17, 2023, historian Dr. Michael Lawrence Dickinson discussed his book on the Atlantic slave trade and how the thousands of captives who...
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...
An African Republic: Black and White Virginians in the Making of Liberia By Marie Tyler-McGraw

On October 28, 2010, Marie Tyler-McGraw discussed her book An African Republic: Black and White Virginians in the Making of Liberia.
The West...
Arming the Commonwealth

Arthur Ashe Jr.’s Family Tree: Tracing the Blackwell Family to 1735

At the Cannon’s Mouth: Battlefield Relics and the Making of Civil War Memory

On July 27, 2023, Dr. James Broomall gave a fascinating presentation on artifacts taken from the battlefields of the Civil War that helped shape the...
Audubon's The Birds of America

Audubon's Viviparous Quadrapeds
