NewsThe Other Madisons with Bettye Kearse
The Virginia Festival of the Book in partnership with Encyclopedia Virginia presented Dr. Bettye Kearse for a discussion of her book, The Other Madisons: The Lost History of a President’s …
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NewsBlack Women’s Battle for the Ballot with Evette Dionne & Martha S. Jones
Evette Dionne, editor-in-chief of Bitch Media and author of Lifting as We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box, discussed her book with Martha S. Jones…
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NewsThe 70th Anniversary of the Moton School Walkout
How student activism in Farmville, Virginia instigated the U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education (1952-1954) decision to desegregate public schools
NewsConfederate Ambitions: Flawed Visions for a New Nation
Catch the recap from the 2021 Virginia Festival of the Book event with historians Adrian Brettle and Ann Tucker…
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NewsThe Virginia Writers Project
By Nora Pehrson Just last week, Congress approved the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARP), with it designating $135 million in federal funds to the National Endowment for the …
NewsNew Documentary Film on the Blue Ridge Railroad Tunnel
Update 3/17/2021: Watch the documentary on YouTube. The Tunnel, a 35-minute documentary film about the creation and the re-creation of the Claudius Crozet Blue Ridge Railroad Tunnel, will be available …
NewsREPLAY: Invisible Founders
There are the names on the buildings, and then there are the real founders.
NewsSHELF LIFE—Unfit: Virginia’s History of Eugenics
Watch this recap from the Shelf Life event hosted by historians Elizabeth Catte and Adam Cohen…
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NewsThrough his daughters’ eyes
In 2021, the Coastal Virginia chapter of the American Red Cross is hosting a quarterly series of 1-hour virtual community education programs to increase awareness of blood diversity challenges and …
NewsAlexandria’s History, In Miniature
A new film tells the story of two artists and their memories of segregated Alexandria. “We didn’t set out to make history. It was just a hobby at first,” says dollhouse artist and A new film tells the story of two artists and their memories of segregated Alexandria. Alexandria native Sharon Frazier. “But then Linwood started making more and more. He said, ‘We should do our town.’ And so, here we are.”
NewsTeaching African American History in Virginia
This webinar presents Commission Chair, Dr. Cassandra Newby Alexander and Co-chairs; Dr. Rosa Atkins and Dr. Derrick P. Alridge of Governor Northam’s Virginia Commission on African American History Education in …
