EventVirginia Holocaust Museum Hyde Farmlands Exhibit Opening & Annual Meeting
The annual meeting and opening of the Hyde Farmlands Exhibit Honoring World War II Jewish refugees.
NewsAppalachia’s Edible Landscape
From Appalachian wasabi to sycamore trees, whose syrup taste like butterscotch, Appalachia has some finger-licking-good invasive species.
NewsEducation for Everyone
They say around 20% of students in K-12 schools are considered gifted. But identifying giftedness isn’t exactly a precise science.
NewsPVCC Prison Creative Arts Project
The Piedmont Virginia Community College (PVCC) Prison Creative Arts Project serves incarcerated students in correctional centers in Fluvanna, Buckingham, and Dillwyn. The project collects original writings and artworks from incarcerated students …
NewsQ&A with Anne Walker
Read our recent Q&A with Anne Walker, our first-ever Encyclopedia Virginia affiliated K-12 Educator Fellow!
NewsBaby Babble
Babies come into the world ready to learn and all those coos and grunts that they make–and that their parents make at them–are stepping stones to fluency.
EventSegregated But Educated: A Legacy of Hope
Join Latorial Faison, Ed.D., for her 2023-24 Virginia Humanities HBCU Scholars Fellowship talk at the Library of Virginia on August 28th.
EventThrough the Spectacles of Ethiopia: Garveyism, Black Judaism and the Virginia Commonwealth
Join Dr. Ma’asehyahu Isra-Ul for a talk about his Public Humanities Fellowship project, which will mark the first Black Judaic Heritage Center Community Event of 2024.
NewsLetterpress Artwork Presents ‘A Permanent Record’ of Historic Pine Grove School Attendees
Veronica Jackson, a member artist at our Virginia Center for the Book’s Book Arts Studio, created a memorial to the 14 teachers and 185 students who attended the Tuskegee Rosenwald school.
NewsVirginia Humanities Announces New Cohort of K-12 Educator Fellows
This year’s cohort is composed of educators from five of the eight Superintendent’s Regions. Their proposed research topics range from the importance of cultural artifacts in telling Southwest Virginia’s history to critical perspectives on the Commonwealth’s juvenile justice system.
EventTwilight History Camp for Kids
Washington Heritage Museums is pleased to host another week of Twilight History for Kids for hands-on experience with local history.
Games in the Garden
Stop by the Mary Washington House and enjoy games as they were in the 18th Century!
