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Canceled: Separate But Unequal
This event has been canceled. We are looking into options for rescheduling it in the future. Separate But Unequal will feature a live panel discussion and Q&A with the following …
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Richmond’s Civil Rights Past Remembered Through Stories
By Nora Pehrson Virginia Humanities grant recipient and former fellow Laura Browder is working to share the history of Richmond’s civil rights movement with public audiences. Funded in part by …
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Overlooked
Our shared historical narratives—whether Black, White, or Brown—are all interconnected and can’t be understood in isolation from each other. For that reason, we’re always striving to tell more complete, inclusive …
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History & Reconciliation
By David Bearinger Stories have power. History has power. And the ways that history is represented through monuments and other memorials have the power to unite and to divide. Whose history …
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Ruby Sales and the Future of Civil Rights Activism
Civil rights leader Ruby Sales visited Charlottesville on November 29th to participate in a public conversation on social justice and spirituality hosted by Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFH).
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Telling Untold Stories
These three fellows—of the dozen typically in residence at VFH during an academic year—are each at work on a biography of a relatively unknown figure whose story illuminates an era.
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History United
With major funding from the Danville Regional Foundation, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities has launched a three-year project using local history to create a stronger future for the Danville region.
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Bearing 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.
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Five Questions for Ted DeLaney
Interview with VFH Board Member and Associate Professor of History at Washington & Lee
