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17th Century

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With Good Reason | Cultures & Communities, History

Homecoming

Can you go back home?

Stories | 17th Century, 19th Century, Black/African American
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With Good Reason | History

REPLAY: Invisible Founders

There are the names on the buildings, and then there are the real founders.

Stories | 17th Century, 18th Century, 19th Century
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With Good Reason | Cultures & Communities, History

Replay: New Virginians

There are many kinds of movement and migration, forced and otherwise. Arrival is a perpetual state of becoming for the people in transit and the nations where they arrive.

Stories | 17th Century, Black/African American, Immigration
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With Good Reason | Civics

School’s Out

UVA Wise was ahead of the curve in online learning, and America’s earliest stories get an inclusive reworking.

Stories | 17th Century, Education, Technology
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Fellowships | Books & Literature, History

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 …

Stories | 17th Century, Fiction, Theater
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History

Prisoners of History

On Friday March 17, 2017 Karenne Wood, director of Virginia Indian programs at Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, delivered the keynote lecture at a conference in London marking the 400th anniversary of …

Stories | 17th Century, Native American, Women
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Encyclopedia VA | History

Hands On History

A set of gnarled dentures hang in mid-air. It rotates, exposing dents, ridges, and wear, either from use or years. “Those are actually human teeth,” says Peter Hedlund, the lead …

Stories | 17th Century, 18th Century, 19th Century
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