Spring 2022 CEO Message from Dr. Rob Havers
Transcript: Hello I’m Rob Havers, President, and CEO of the American Civil War Museum inviting you to explore our sites in Richmond …
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Spring 2022 CEO Message from Dr. Rob Havers
Transcript: Hello I’m Rob Havers, President, and CEO of the American Civil War Museum inviting you to explore our sites in Richmond …
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 …