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Fat Cattle, Firewood, and Forage
The Metabolism of Military Forces in the American Revolution – Dave Hsiung explores the environmental contexts and consequences of the American Revolutionary War.
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The Metabolism of History
By Nora Pehrson Drawing on chemistry, biology, geology, botany, and ecology, Dave Hsiung is studying the American Revolution and how Americans have interacted with and changed the land ever since. …
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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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Dying for Freedom
Virginia Humanities Residential Fellow Suzette Spencer will present her research and consideration about Nate Parker’s 2016 film, exploring what it now means to image and imagine Turner’s uprising almost two centuries …
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Preserving African American Historic Places Mini-Conference
Join us at the Alexandria History Museum at the Lyceum for a one-day conference to provide networking opportunities and tools to help build capacity and strengthen organizations preserving African American historic sites …
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From 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 …
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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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Unearthing Buried Stories
Join the Koinonia School of Race & Justice at Richmond Hill for a special Black History Month program focused on the enslaved community at Richmond Hill and African American burial …
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The 15th Amendment, a Failure?
The Fifteenth Amendment, ratified February 3, 1870, gave African American men in America the right to vote. It was the third and last of the Reconstruction amendments. While women’s suffrage …
