Applying the humanities to contemporary human questions.
Over the past decade, Mexican drug traffickers trying to get their products to the U.S. have had a spiritual “protector.” Her name is Santa Muerte, and she’s a Mexican folk saint for not just drug traffickers, but prostitutes too. R. Andrew Chesnut (Virginia Commonwealth University) is the author of a new book about Santa Muerte, [...]
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VFH Fellow Kara Dixon Vuic says the American military has a long history of sanctioning prostitution, one that suggests much deeper concerns about its cultivation of a sexualized culture that can help to explain the recent Secret Service scandal.
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A lunchtime talk with VFH Fellow Robert T. Vinson Tuesday, May 15 at noon. Explore how Zulu people shaped political, social, and cultural transformations in the Atlantic world.
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Food Heritage Innovation Ideas for Advancing Food Heritage and Economic Development in Central Virginia Wednesday, May 2, 2012 7pm University of Virginia, Campbell Hall Room 153 7pm: Screening of 18 short films on Central Virginian food traditions Thursday May 3, 2012 at 5pm Water Street Center at 407 E. Water Street, Charlottesville 5pm: Screening of [...]
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A recent, tongue-in-cheek obituary in the Chicago Tribune declared Facts dead at the age of 2,732—the victim of blogs and the 24-hour news cycle. Encyclopedia Virginia’s take is a little different, as EV managing editor Brendan Wolfe explains on their project blog.
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This is exactly the story of Virginia. The historian Karen Kupperman writes of a number of people “who found themselves placed involuntarily in cross-cultural situations—often at radically different destinations from those they intended—where the ones who survived lived by their wits.”
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We regret to announce that this event has been canceled.
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David Holmes explores the role of religion in the lives of the twelve presidents who have served since the end of World War II. And Allen Guelzo says the ages haven’t always been kind to Lincoln.
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On Saturday April 21st, American History TV (C-Span3) broadcast a special live BackStory event from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Cheers and Jeers: Alcohol in America: In this hour, the History Guys explore the social, economic, and health consequences of drinking.
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