News“Lonely Days and Fearful Nights:” The Norfolk Yellow Fever Epidemic
At its best, history opens a window in time that helps illuminate the past and the present. Such is Encyclopedia Virginia’s new entry on the long-forgotten Norfolk and Portsmouth Yellow Fever Epidemic… Read More»
EventFood, Politics, & Colonial Women with Dr. Nancy Siegel
A Taste of Democracy: Federal Cake, Liberty Tea, and Culinary Activism in the Early Republic. Moderated by Stratford Hall’s Director of Programming, Education, and Visitor Engagement Dr. Kelley Fanto Deetz, …
EventTobacco Culture & Pipes in the Colonial Era
Justin Fornal, host of “Unexplained & Unexplored” on Discovery Channel and the Science Channel, takes us on a smokey journey into the culture, etiquette, and craft of colonial pipes. Learn …
EventAfrican American Foodways Cooking Demonstration
Stratford Hall’s 1738 kitchen will become center stage with historical interpreter and chef, Dontavius Williams. Cooking traditional African American dishes, Williams will share stories of plantation kitchen labor and the …
EventAddressing Hunger in the Midst of Plenty
In the wealthiest country in the world, people still go hungry. The food stamp program was created in the 1960s to ease abundant agricultural surpluses and help feed struggling families …
NewsShort Film About Virginia Slave Dwellings Receives Regional Emmy
Virginia Humanities announced today that the film, Mapping Virginia’s Slave Dwellings, has been awarded a National Capital Chesapeake Bay Chapter Emmy Award in the category “Historical / Cultural: Program Feature.” …
EventAfrican American Foodways Cooking Demonstration
Stratford Hall’s 1738 kitchen will become center stage with historical interpreter and chef, Dontavius Williams. Cooking traditional African American dishes, Williams will share stories of plantation kitchen labor and the …
EventColonial Milling & Brewing
Join us and Stratford Hall for a virtual tour and lecture about Stratford Hall’s Historic Gristmill with traditional miller, Steve Bashore and 18th-century baker, Justin Cherry. They will be discussing 18th …
NewsReplay: New Virginians
There are many kinds of movement and migration, forced and otherwise. Arrival is a perpetual state of becoming for the people in transit and the nations where they arrive.
NewsTelling the Whole Story of Woman Suffrage
As Encyclopedia Virginia director Peter Hedlund recently noted here on the EV blog, we are committed to revising existing entries to eliminate racial bias and better reflect new historical understandings of key moments in Virginia history.… Read More»
NewsThe Chiefest Town
At the confluence of the James and Rivana Rivers in Virginia sits a Monacan site. Monacan Chief Kenneth Branham walks us through the site of what was once the village …
NewsWhat Comes After?
The old Style Council song “Walls Come Tumbling Down” has been running through my head all week as we watch the commemorative landscape of Richmond being re-made in real time:… Read More»
