EventFrom the Front Porch to the Front Lines
As part of Radford University’s 75th anniversary commemoration of WWII, Wednesday February 26, 2020, 4:00 – 5:00 p.m., Kathleen Ingoldsby and Melinda Wagner will discuss the Floyd Story Center’s oral …
NewsWomen Front and Center
2020 is shaping up to be a significant year for women in Virginia and across the country. In addition to the Virginia General Assembly finally ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment (after failing to do so since 1973), this year we will celebrate the centennial of women achieving the right to vote.
NewsLong Shadows of War
A new eight-part special series by VFH’s With Good Reason explores the unresolved tensions in our understanding of the Vietnam War and the perspectives and people it forever changed.
NewsA Museum’s First Comprehensive Exhibit
About the Organization The Edith Bolling Wilson Museum celebrates the life and legacy of the only Appalachian-born First Lady. Edith Bolling Wilson is sometimes referred to as “the Secret President” …
NewsThe Legacy of Kepone
Gregory Wilson, professor of history at the University of Akron, is researching the history of the Kepone disaster that took place in Hopewell, VA in the 1970s. Wilson recently sat down to talk with us about what he’s learned during his fellowship at VFH.
NewsRemembering the Forgotten War
While researching and cataloging the many World War I memorials throughout Virginia, Virginia Humanities fellow Lynn Rainville became fascinated with the extensive, and little explored, role that Virginia played in the Great War.
NewsBearing Witness to the Danville Civil Rights Protests of 1963
An exhibit on the 1963 Danville Civil Rights protests has been twenty years in the making. See it in Charlotttesville through 4/30.
NewsFive Questions for Ted DeLaney
Interview with VFH Board Member and Associate Professor of History at Washington & Lee
NewsThe Human Computers Project
A VFH grant explores the largely untold story of hundreds of women, known as “human computers” who performed the complex calculations needed by the American space program.
NewsThe Dry Rub of History
In Prince Edward County, the Moton Museum engages in the tough work of confronting a painful past.
NewsCrossing Over: The Charlie McClendon Story
VFH Folklife Director Jon Lohman tells the story of Charlie McClendon and the R&B music scene in Hampton Roads in the 1960s.
NewsThe Right To Love
Congratulations to all involved in the creation, production, and broadcast of “The Loving Story,” which has received three Emmy Nominations for Outstanding Documentary, Outstanding Historical Programming, and Outstanding Editing.
