By Robert Hancock
Senior Curator & Director of Collections
Blog
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February 12, 2018
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February 9, 2018
February 24 at the Library of Virginia, the 2018 Symposium will tackle how the Civil War impacted the lives of ordinary people. We have lined up five great Civil War scholars
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January 26, 2018
By Robert Hancock
Senior Curator & Director of CollectionsMary Galt made this cap for Captain William H.S.
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January 17, 2018
By John Coski
HistorianThe first photos and detailed descriptions of the building known to history as the White House of the Confederacy come from the days immediately following the end of Confederate Richmond, and owe to
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January 16, 2018
Mark Wahlgren Summers is Thomas D. Clark Professor of History at the University of Kentucky, Lexington. He is author of many books, including The Press Gang: Newspapers and Politics, 1865-1878; The Presidency in Political