History Needs Heroes Campaign
History Needs Heroes Preserve the Past, Inspire the Future A campaign to fund the preservation of the ACWM’s world-class collection of Civil …
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Annual Legacies: Chaplain Garland H. White
There are thousands of legacies housed within the American Civil War Museum, and the Annual Fund helps to provide critical funding for …
Annual Legacies: White House of the Confederacy
There are thousands of legacies housed within the American Civil War Museum, and the Annual Fund helps to provide critical funding for …
Annual Legacies: Dr. Mary Edwards Walker
There are thousands of legacies housed within the American Civil War Museum, and the Annual Fund helps to provide critical funding for …
House 200 | A Journey Through Time
This year, 2018, we commemorated the bicentennial of the house most commonly referred to as The White House of the Confederacy. Our …
Myths & Misunderstandings: The Museum
Last year, comments on one of our Facebook posts sparked a larger conversation about recurring debates about the Civil War. We asked …
House 200 | “dear old Central School”
On October 1, 1872, Richmond’s Central School opened with 11 teachers and approximately 600 students – all of them white in a …
House 200 | Symbols, Past and Present
By John Coski, Museum Historian What did an African-American spy for the Union working in Jefferson Davis’s Confederate executive mansion, a young …
House 200 | The President's Guard
By John Coski, Historian Waite Rawls’ May 12th “House 200” program on President Jefferson Davis’ military aides who occasionally worked at the Confederate …
House 200 | Jefferson Davis' Staff
By Waite Rawls, Foundation President Like any other Chief Executive and Commander in Chief, Jefferson Davis was surrounded by many people who …
Meet Southern Ambitions: War For the Future
By Christopher Graham Mellon Guest Curator To further the American Civil War Museum’s mission to explore the Civil War from multiple …