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 …

The events that occurred at our nation’s Capitol on January 6, 2021 are not only shocking in today’s world, but also generated …
What does Memorial Day mean to you? Is it just cookouts? Solemn appreciation for the nation’s dead? Do you think it has …
February 24 at the Library of Virginia, the 2018 Symposium will tackle how the Civil War impacted the lives of ordinary people. We …
Mark Wahlgren Summers is Thomas D. Clark Professor of History at the University of Kentucky, Lexington. He is author of many …
By Bryce VanStavern White House Specialist On December 26, 1811, Bank of Virginia President Abraham Venable died in a fire in the …
By John Coski Historian Perhaps the most underrated valuable materials in any library collection are pamphlets. The Museum’s large pamphlet collection includes …
Ari Kelman is the Chancellor’s Leadership Professor of History at the University of California, Davis, where he teaches a wide range …
Keith Richotte, Jr. is a citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians and an assistant professor of American Studies …
One valley. Two towns, one Northern the other Southern. Their people had much in common: family ties, religious views, the soil …
By John Coski Historian On the 11th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination at Ford’s Theatre, African-American abolitionist Frederick Douglass delivered the …
By Adrian Brettle Mellon Fellow William J. Buchanan, a former United States envoy to Sweden and later a refugee in Confederate …
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