Tongue-Tied America
With Good Reason
On this episode of With Good Reason Molly Bishop Shadel and Robert N. Sayler say oral advocacy is key to a healthy democracy. Effective speeches can even change the course of history.
Continue Reading »Humanities at Work
Applying the humanities to contemporary human questions.
Exploring: Culture & Identity
Grave Matters
With Good Reason talks with Bernard Means about how and why we bury our dead – and how that’s changed over the last few centuries. Did you know the Victorians photographed their dead before burial? Or that Abraham Lincoln’s death might have popularized embalming?
Continue Reading »Food Heritage: A Central Virginia Gathering
Grants
You are invited to join the first “Food Heritage: A Central Virginia Gathering” where people will learn and share knowledge about the special food heritage of our Virginia Piedmont region. Bring your knowledge and adventure to this exciting and innovative project. Anyone who knows something about our food heritage is invited: gardeners, farmers (young and [...]
Continue Reading »The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap
With Good Reason
When Jack Beck and Wendy Welch decided to move to the small mountain town of Big Stone Gap, they hadn’t planned on opening a used bookstore.
Continue Reading »Remembering Tinbridge Hill
Grants
This publication, created by current and former residents of the Tinbridge neighborhood, is “just the sort of history that should be done for every neighborhood” according to Lynchburg historian Al Chambers.
Continue Reading »Frances Brand Collection: The Firsts
Grants
A new exhibit of sixteen women in the Frances Brand Collection of Firsts went on display March 2 at the Jefferson Madison Regional Library on Market Street in downtown Charlottesville. VFH grantee Nancy O’Brien (herself the subject of one of Ms. Brand’s portraits as Charlottesville’s first woman mayor) and Cindy Brand presented the newest oral [...]
Continue Reading »When Words Cry
Virginia Arts of the Book Center
The eyes of Afghanistan’s children are upon us. Josef Beery explores the Afghan Women’s Writers Project.
Continue Reading »Look But Don’t Touch
Fellowships
American Women as Military Entertainment
In this lunchtime talk, VFH Fellow Kara Dixon Vuic examines the motivations behind the military’s insistence that women recreation workers were central to military effectiveness.
Continue Reading »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.
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