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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...
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.
...A Saga of the New South: Race, Law, and Public Debt in Virginia

On March 16, Brent Tarter delivered a Banner Lecture entitled “A Saga of the New South: Race, Law, and Public Debt in Virginia.”
A Saga of the New...
Agents of Change

Care Beyond National and Color Lines: Filipino Nurses in Virginia Across the 20th Century

Conclusion
Convict Leasing

Curators at Home: Suffragist Images

On May 15, 2020, VMHC Museum Collections Curator Dr. Karen A. Sherry presented, "Moral, Maternal, Mannish, & Monstrous: Suffragist Images, 1900-1920."...
Curators At Home: True Crime

On May 29, 2020, VMHC Sr. Director of Curatorial Affairs Andrew Talkov presented "True Crime: Sex, Murder, and the Trial of Thomas Cluverius." This...
Curators at Work: These Things Can Be Done Film Discussion

In August 2020, the U.S. celebrated the centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote. “These Things Can...
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...
Determined

Determined Traveling Exhibition
Doing Their Bit: The Surprising Role of Virginians in the Great War

On February 22, 2018, Lynn Rainville delivered a Banner Lecture entitled “Doing Their Bit: The Surprising Role of Virginians in the Great War.”
In...
Elections from 1876 to 1920
Equal Suffrage League of Virginia

First Dads: Parenting and Politics from George Washington to Barack Obama

On June 2 at noon, Joshua Kendall delivered a Banner Lecture entitled "First Dads: Parenting and Politics from George Washington to Barack Obama."
...First House: Two Centuries with Virginia's First Families

On October 10, Mary Miley Theobald, delivered a banner lecture entitled "First House: Two Centuries with Virginia's First Families."
Conceived...
Flag Day

From Cotton Fields to Skyscrapers: The Transformation of the South in the Twentieth Century By Paul A. Levengood

At the dawn of the twentieth century, the South was by all measurements the poorest, most segregated region in the United States. One hundred years...