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New Short Film Tells the Story of Virginia’s Maggie Lena Walker
Unladylike is a series of twenty-six multimedia films honoring the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage. Launched in March during Women’s History Month and continuing through August 26 2020, each ten-minute …
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Eliza House Trist & Thomas Jefferson
In this talk, Virginia Humanities Research Fellow Karen A. Chase reveals the life and writings of Elizabeth House Trist, the often-overlooked American woman who traveled westward in 1783, two decades …
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Women 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.
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Whistle Words
Humanities’ Power to Heal is a film and writing project capturing the transformational and healing power of writing for women diagnosed with cancer.
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Announcing the Rosel Schewel Fund
Scheduled to Launch with October 2020 “Women and Democracy” Events in Lynchburg During the Centennial of the Ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment Virginia Humanities announces the establishment of the Rosel …
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Eliza! Eliza!
By Nora Pehrson Karen Chase is a 2019 Virginia Humanities Fellow in residence at the Library of Virginia in Richmond. She is working on a forthcoming book, Eliza! Eliza! A …
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Banking on Freedom
Hear Shennette Garrett-Scott, author of Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal read from her book and take questions at New Dominion Bookshop in this …
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Uncovering the Story of an Enslaved Woman at Lumpkin’s Jail
Virginia Humanities Fellow Kristen Green is working on a book that will tell the story of Mary Lumpkin, an enslaved woman who is believed to have given birth to at least five children fathered by Robert Lumpkin.
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New Women’s Monument
Earlier this month ground was broken in Richmond’s Capitol Square for a new monument honoring the contributions of women in Virginia. The monument will feature bronze statues of twelve women, …
