By Robert Hancock
Senior Curator and Director of Collections
Author of Four Years in the Stonewall Brigade...
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By Brianna Kirk
Lead Historical InterpreterEveryone likes getting new things. With the holidays just past, many are enjoying new gifts as they start the new year.
Historians like getting new things, too. One of the...
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By John Coski
HistorianOne hundred and fifty years ago this month, an estimated 300,000 southerners, white and black, faced the real prospect of famine. The immediate cause of the crisis was not the effects of civil war...
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By Robert Hancock
Senior Curator and Director of CollectionsOval rooms were a popular neoclassical element in early 19th-century buildings. Although the Entrance Hall appears to be oval in shape, it is actually...
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By Sam Florer,
Lead Historical InterpreterWhen families gather, dinner table conversations often turn to the universal boogeyman, politics. After such a long and polarized election, the chances are as high as ever...
