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 …
Category: African American History
Battling Ballots: Before the War
Step into George Caleb Bingham’s 1852 celebration of American democracy, The County Election. In the boisterous and crowded scene, we see the …
Emancipation and Juneteenth Collection Highlights
Juneteenth marks the day, June 19, in 1865 when General Gordon Granger of the United States Army arrived in Galveston, Texas and …
Historical Resources to Understand & Explain the Present Unrest
Historian and American Civil War Museum board member Ed Ayers recently noted that, “if we are going to explain today, and lay …
Two Sides of Memory
What does Memorial Day mean to you? Is it just cookouts? Solemn appreciation for the nation’s dead? Do you think it has …
Annual Legacies: Susie Baker King Taylor
Susie Baker King Taylor was born into slavery on August 6, 1848 to Hagar and Raymond Baker on the Grest Farm in …
The Emancipation Question
With our doors closed to the public, we love hearing from our visitors. This week we have a question about instituting the …
15th Turns 150!
March 30, 2020, is the 150th anniversary of the adoption of the 15th Amendment to the Constitution (ratified Feb. 3, 1870), which …
Seizing – and Speaking Out for – Freedom
By John M. Coski, Historian The Museum’s April “House 200” program, “Seizing Freedom,” offered an immersive tour of the Confederate White …
House 200 | Seizing Freedom
By Dr. Lauranett Lee University of Richmond Every day and in every way, enslaved people sought freedom – often times seizing it as opportunities …
Freedom Fighters at Rest
By Brian Palmer and Erin Hollaway Palmer Welcome guest bloggers, Brian Palmer and Erin Hollaway Palmer. The Palmers moved to Virginia in 2013 from …