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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 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 Life Rediscovered: The Story of Emily Winfree

An oval portrait in black and white of Emily Winfree

Emily Winfree, an African American woman who lived through slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow, never...

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A Material World

P.O. Box 7311, Richmond, Virginia 23221 Photograph of Stephanie Lane wearing seven Swatch watches. Image courtesy of the Richmond Times-Dispatch.Enter FullscreenMore informationPhotograph of Stephanie Lane wearing seven Swatch watches. Image courtesy of the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

Featuring 43 iconic images from the archives of the Richmond Times-Dispatch and accompanied by historical objects that...

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A Material World Traveling Exhibition

A Material World is a touring exhibition traveling to venues beginning in 2018.

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Agents of Change

Organized in conjunction with the statewide Women’s Suffrage Centennial, this exhibition featured artifacts from the...

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Agents of Change Traveling Exhibition

Bring Agents of Change to your venue! Learn how you can bring our Agents of Change: Female Activism in Virginia from...

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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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Artists4ERA

Artists4ERA is part of ongoing efforts to ensure that the ERA becomes the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution...

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Becoming an Author: Amélie Rives’s Audacious Entrance into Publishing by Jane Censer Turner

On April 28, 2022, historian Jane Turner Censer presented a lecture about the literary career of Amélie Rives.

By 1890, Amélie Rives was well-known...

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Breaking the Silence: League of Wives Panel Discussion

The formation of the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia is a national story with strong ties to Virginia...

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Carving Out Space in the Military: WAVES

World War II opened new opportunities for women in the military and on the home front, though it was not the first war...

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Changing the Commonwealth with Crayons

A photograph of Bellen Woodard and her More Than Peach Project.

When she was in the third grade, a classmate asked her to pass the “skin-colored” crayon—a familiar request heard at her...

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Clarise Sears Ramsey

Charlotte Clarise Sears Risley Harrold Ramsey (1867–1922), whose parents were Joseph Henry Risley and Mary Elizabeth...

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