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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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 …
Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times | Q&A with 2018 Symposium Speakers
February 24 at the Library of Virginia, the 2018 Symposium will tackle how the Civil War impacted the lives of ordinary people. We …
Q&A with the Foundry Series Speakers | Dr. Mark Summers
Mark Wahlgren Summers is Thomas D. Clark Professor of History at the University of Kentucky, Lexington. He is author of many …
House 200 Program Preview | The House's First Owner
By Bryce VanStavern White House Specialist On December 26, 1811, Bank of Virginia President Abraham Venable died in a fire in the …
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 …
Q&A with the Foundry Series Speakers | Dr. Ari Kelman
Ari Kelman is the Chancellor’s Leadership Professor of History at the University of California, Davis, where he teaches a wide range …
Q&A with the Foundry Series Speakers | Dr. Keith Richotte
Keith Richotte, Jr. is a citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians and an assistant professor of American Studies …
The Thin Light of Freedom - A Dramatization
One valley. Two towns, one Northern the other Southern. Their people had much in common: family ties, religious views, the soil …
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 …
Fighting for a New World
By Adrian Brettle Mellon Fellow William J. Buchanan, a former United States envoy to Sweden and later a refugee in Confederate …