News‘A Life-Sized Portrait of America’
Supported in part by Virginia Humanities, The People’s Recorder is a podcast on the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) and its lasting impact on American history, arts, and culture.
EventRed Hill Rediscovered: “Pretty Young Rebel” Book Talk with Flora Fraser
Join Red Hill-Patrick Henry National Memorial and Dr. Jim Ambuske for a live virtual discussion with author Flora Fraser on her latest biography, “Pretty Young Rebel: The Life of Flora MacDonald.”
EventRed Hill Rediscovered: Lost Buildings of Red Hill Walking Tour
Join Red Hill-Patrick Henry National Memorial Curator Cody Youngblood on a walking tour of Red Hill’s historic property.
EventAmerican Inheritance
In “American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795,” Edward J. Larson grapples with the legacy of enslavement in America.
EventRed Hill Rediscovered: Patrick Henry and Dying in the 18th Century
Join Red Hill-Patrick Henry National Memorial Curator Cody Youngblood as he answers the questions about Patrick Henry’s death.
EventRed Hill Rediscovered: The Principal Restoration of Patrick Henry’s Red Hill
Join Red Hill-Patrick Henry National Memorial Curator Cody Youngblood for an exciting lecture telling the story of Red Hill’s principal restoration.
EventRed Hill Rediscovered: Lost Buildings of Red Hill Walking Tour
Join Red Hill-Patrick Henry National Memorial Curator Cody Youngblood on a walking tour of Red Hill’s historic property.
EventRed Hill Rediscovered: Lucy Henry Harrison and the Edwardian Age at Red Hill
Join Red Hill-Patrick Henry National Memorial Curator Cody Youngblood in an online lecture about Red Hill in the early 20th century.
EventRed Hill Rediscovered: Digging Up New Stories On the Quarter Place
Join Red Hill-Patrick Henry National Memorial Curator Cody Youngblood in an online lecture about archaeological investigations at the Quarter Place.
EventRed Hill Rediscovered: Patrick Henry & John Adams
Join Dr. Sara Georgini of the Massachusetts Historical Society and Dr. Jim Ambuske of George Mason University for an illuminating discussion about the unlikely friendship between Adams and Henry.
NewsThe Nottoway Indian Tribe of Virginia
In November, our Encyclopedia Virginia published a new entry on the Nottoway Indian Tribe of Virginia. We talked to Chief Lynette Allston about what the Nottoway tribe looks like today and what it meant to be part of the group of tribal members who created the new entry.
NewsRestoring & Preserving Fluvanna’s Black Cemeteries
In the fall of 2021, we awarded the Fluvanna County Historical Society a grant through the Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan program. The historical society is using the funds …
