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 …
Category: Medical
Annual Legacies: Pheobe Yates Levy Pember
Born Phoebe Yates Levy on August 18, 1823, in Charleston, South Carolina, she was the fourth of seven children in a prominent …
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 …
Annual Legacies: Annie Bell
Annie Bell was the central subject for one of the most popular photos used by the U.S. Sanitary Commission (USSC). The photo, …
Not Alone in History: Are You Doing Something?
Have you made masks yet? I haven’t, though it’s all the rage right now and one can find instructions all over the …
May 2017 Artifacts of the Month | Richmond Sharpshooters Medicine Chest
By Robert Hancock Senior Curator & Director of Collections This medicine case was presented to the Richmond Sharpshooters, Company H, 23rd Virginia …
February 2016 Artifact of the Month | Captain Sally Tompkins
By Jodi Frederiksen Collections Manager The PBS television show Mercy Street tells the story of Mansion House, a hotel appropriated by Federal …
The Force is Strong with Dr. Jonathan Letterman
Meg Thompson of the Emerging Civil War blog recently made an interesting connection between the American Civil War and the Intergalactic Civil …