Press Releases & Other Stories
VFH Fellow Jasmin Darznik’s celebrated memoir, “The Good Daughter,” is a candidate for the Library of Virginia’s People’s Choice Award for Nonfiction. And even more recently, she received word that the book is on the short list for the 2012 Saroyan Prize for Nonfiction, too. That award is intended to encourage new or emerging writers and [...]
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“BackStory with the American History Guys,” a one-hour public radio show featuring three current or former University of Virginia history professors and produced by the U.Va.-based Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, is “blowing up,” as the kids say.
Continue Reading »After nine months of renovating the old Masonic lodge in Capron, the Nottoway Indian Tribe of Virginia Community House and Interpretive Center opens Saturday, May 5. Donations from Nottoway families and friends matched by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities paid for the permanent exhibit.
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University of Virginia art history professor Maurie McInnis has been awarded the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art for her book “Slaves Waiting for Sale: Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade,” published in 2011 by the University of Chicago Press. The book focuses on a painting [...]
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Charlottesville, VA.—The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded a two-year $584,000 grant to the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities’ Documents Compass, a program specializing in documentary editing in the electronic age. This grant supports further development of People of the Founding Era: A Prosopographical Approach, a project that creates a biographical glossary combined with a group [...]
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Charlottesville, VA—The public radio program With Good Reason, produced in Charlottesville, has just been honored with a national Gabriel Award. “The Legacy of Massive Resistance,” won 1st place in the Documentary, local release category. Listen Now The Legacy of Massive Resistance In “The Legacy of Massive Resistance,” With Good Reason brings us the story of [...]
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“BackStory with the American History Guys,” a public radio program produced by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, will be syndicated on a weekly basis starting May 11. The program, which first aired as a monthly spot in 2008, has been picked up by stations in 39 states.
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Encyclopedia Virginia is pleased to report that our cache of primary source documents is now online and growing! Select entries have been enriched with links to primary resources.
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Applications for Virginia Folklife Apprenticeships are welcome in all forms of Virginia’s traditional, expressive culture. Applications must be postmarked by June 30, 2012, and earlier applications are especially welcome.
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