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Historical Resources to Contextualize the Storming of the U.S. Capitol

The events that occurred at our nation’s Capitol on January 6, 2021 are not only shocking in today’s world, but also generated …

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Artifact of the Month Collections Document of the Month Holidays
December 22, 2017

December 2017 Artifact of the Month | Christmas Letter

By Robert Hancock Director of Collections & Senior Curator Three days before Christmas in 1863, Nathaniel J. Cundiff, a soldier in the …

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Collections Document of the Month Events
December 7, 2017

December 2017 Document of the Month | Church Synod Pamphlet

By John Coski Historian Perhaps the most underrated valuable materials in any library collection are pamphlets. The Museum’s large pamphlet collection includes …

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Collections Document of the Month Monument Avenue
November 8, 2017

November 2017 Document of the Month | Scrapbook clippings of Maury Monument

  By John Coski Historian Eighty-eight years ago this month, on the 11th anniversary of the armistice that ended World War I, …

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October 16, 2017

October 2017 Document of the Month | Douglass on Lincoln

  By John Coski Historian On the 11th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination at Ford’s Theatre, African-American abolitionist Frederick Douglass delivered the …

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September 4, 2017

September 2017 Document of the Month | Official Records Collector

By John Coski Historian On July 1, 1878, the United States War Department hired Marcus J. Wright (1831-1922) a former Confederate brigadier …

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Collections Document of the Month Military History
August 11, 2017

August 2017 Documents of the Month | 1865 Parole Passes

  By John Coski Historian Most Civil War students are familiar with the parole passes issued to the soldiers of General R. …

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Books Collections Document of the Month Military History
July 17, 2017

July 2017 Document of the Month | Letter of John Fite

By John Coski Historian The recipient of the Museum’s 2015-2016 Founders Award, which recognizes excellence in the editing of primary source documents, …

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Collections Document of the Month Events Military History
June 9, 2017

June 2017 Documents of the Month | Camp Sketches

  By John Coski Historian The most popular subjects of sketches by Civil War soldiers were their camps – no doubt a …

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African American History Collections Document of the Month Women's History
May 1, 2017

May 2017 Documents of the Month | Photos from WWI Era

By John Coski Historian Prompted by Germany’s declaration of unrestricted submarine warfare, the United States entered “the Great War” on the side …

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Books Collections Document of the Month
April 10, 2017

April 2017 Document of the Month | R.R. Howison Manuscript

By John Coski Historian How long should historians wait to start writing histories of war? Several Virginians began writing histories of the …

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