Travel for Transformation
With Good Reason
George Greenia says that today’s American pilgrimages, like Underground Railroad tours, share something in common with medieval pilgrimages—transformation of the traveler.
Continue Reading »Humanities at Work
Applying the humanities to contemporary human questions.
Exploring: Culture & Identity
RACE – Are We So Different?
Grants
Funded in part by a grant from VFH, the exhibit RACE: Are We So Different examines the topic of race from scientific, historical and cultural perspectives.
Continue Reading »Naughty & Nice: A History of The Holiday Season
BackStory
Christmas may be the big kahuna of American holy days, but it wasn’t always so. It used to be a time of drunken rowdiness, when the poor would demand food and money from the rich.
Continue Reading »Woman Suffrage in Virginia
The woman suffrage movement began in Virginia as early as 1870. In 1909, its most vocal supporters organized around the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, which joined with national groups in an effort to change state and local laws and pass an amendment to the United States Constitution.
Continue Reading »The Great Awakening in Virginia
Great Awakening was the most significant cultural upheaval in colonial America. The term refers to a series of religious revivals that began early in the eighteenth century and led, eventually, to the disestablishment of the Church of England as the official church during the American Revolution (1775–1783).
Continue Reading »Stories from the Shore
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The Eastern Shore of Virginia Historical Society received funding from VFH and the PNC Foundation to conduct interviews and transcribe more than 50 hours of audio recordings from residents of Accomack and Northampton counties.
Continue Reading »Valley Fraktur Folk Art
View more than seventy works of fraktur artists practicing in the Central Shenandoah Valley of Virginia from 1750 to 1850.
Continue Reading »The Reconstruction of Asa Carter
Twelve years after the death of Forrest Carter, exalted Cherokee hero and best-selling author (The Outlaw Josey Wales and The Education of Little Tree), the public learned that Forrest had a hidden past.
Continue Reading »The Loving Story
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Using found footage from the 1960s and contemporary interviews, this film tells the story of Richard and Mildred Loving: an interracial couple who were married at a time when interracial marriage was illegal in 16 states.
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