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Fat Cattle, Firewood, and Forage
The Metabolism of Military Forces in the American Revolution – Dave Hsiung explores the environmental contexts and consequences of the American Revolutionary War.
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The Metabolism of History
By Nora Pehrson Drawing on chemistry, biology, geology, botany, and ecology, Dave Hsiung is studying the American Revolution and how Americans have interacted with and changed the land ever since. …
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Dying for Freedom
Virginia Humanities Residential Fellow Suzette Spencer will present her research and consideration about Nate Parker’s 2016 film, exploring what it now means to image and imagine Turner’s uprising almost two centuries …
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The 15th Amendment, a Failure?
The Fifteenth Amendment, ratified February 3, 1870, gave African American men in America the right to vote. It was the third and last of the Reconstruction amendments. While women’s suffrage …
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Eliza House Trist & Thomas Jefferson
In this talk, Virginia Humanities Research Fellow Karen A. Chase reveals the life and writings of Elizabeth House Trist, the often-overlooked American woman who traveled westward in 1783, two decades …
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Loyal Artists, Loyal Slaves
Watch this free public talk by Rachel Stephens, Associate Professor of Art History, American Art and Architecture at the University of Alabama. Much can be gleaned about the role of …
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Jamestown & Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’
By Nora Pehrson Hannah Wojciehowski is a Virginia Humanities Fellow in Residence this fall researching the connection between the Virginia Company’s venture in Jamestown and Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Hannah teaches …
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The Saving Grace of Spring Rolls
By Nora Pehrson Growing up in the 1970s in College Park, Maryland with a Vietnamese-born mother and an American-born father, Virginia Humanities Fellow Kim O’Connell’s experience of identity has always …
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Eliza! Eliza!
By Nora Pehrson Karen Chase is a 2019 Virginia Humanities Fellow in residence at the Library of Virginia in Richmond. She is working on a forthcoming book, Eliza! Eliza! A …
