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History is Present Mission in Action

History Needs Heroes Campaign

History Needs Heroes Preserve the Past, Inspire the Future A campaign to fund the preservation of the ACWM’s world-class collection of Civil …

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October 7, 2020 Chris Graham

Battling Ballots: The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend

The United States presidential election of 1864 would prove to be just as important a turning point in the American Civil War …

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September 30, 2020

Battling Ballots: Absentee Voting and the Civil War

In this installment of our Battling Ballots series, when the United States is in the middle of a Civil War and a …

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September 22, 2020 Chris Graham A photo collage of images. A man in period clothing wearing a vest with arms crossed, one hand pinching his nose between his eyes in frustration holding a pair of glasses in the other. He's leaning on a road sign pointing in different directions saying: Union, Secession, Republican, Democrat, Slavery and Abolition. Blue Ridge Mountains in the backround.

Battling Ballots: Should we stay or should we go now? North Carolina votes on secession.

Perhaps it was like candidate endorsements from advocacy organizations or newspaper editorial boards today. But in 1861, voters in North Carolina themselves …

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July 3, 2020 Chris Graham A graffitied Matthew Fontaine Maury Monument from Richmond's Monument Ave, being lifted by a crane for removal.

What did Matthew Fontaine Maury ever do to deserve his removal from Monument Avenue?

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People In Perspective
December 18, 2019

Annual Legacies: Chaplain Garland H. White

There are thousands of legacies housed within the American Civil War Museum, and the Annual Fund helps to provide critical funding for …

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White House of the Confederacy
December 18, 2019

Annual Legacies: White House of the Confederacy

There are thousands of legacies housed within the American Civil War Museum, and the Annual Fund helps to provide critical funding for …

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November 26, 2019

Annual Legacies: Dr. Mary Edwards Walker

There are thousands of legacies housed within the American Civil War Museum, and the Annual Fund helps to provide critical funding for …

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December 17, 2018

House 200 | A Journey Through Time

This year, 2018, we commemorated the bicentennial of the house most commonly referred to as The White House of the Confederacy.  Our …

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October 2, 2018 Myths and Misunderstandings

Myths & Misunderstandings: The Museum

Last year, comments on one of our Facebook posts sparked a larger conversation about recurring debates about the Civil War. We asked …

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August 21, 2018

House 200 | “dear old Central School”

On October 1, 1872, Richmond’s Central School opened with 11 teachers and approximately 600 students – all of them white in a …

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