NewsEliza 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 …
NewsFestival Partnership Raises Awareness of Environmental Writing
More than ten years ago, a unique partnership formed between the Virginia Festival of the Book and the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) to celebrate some of today’s top environmental …
NewsEmma Edmunds: Memorial Service Details
We were incredibly sad to learn of Emma Edmunds’ passing earlier this week. Among her many accomplishments, Emma is known for her years of dedicated work at UVa, as the …
NewsWomen 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.
NewsLoyal Artists, Loyal Slaves
Watch this free public talk by Rachel Stephens, Associate Professor of Art History, American Art and Architecture at the University of Alabama. Much can be gleaned about the role of …
NewsWhistle Words
Humanities’ Power to Heal is a film and writing project capturing the transformational and healing power of writing for women diagnosed with cancer.
NewsThe Whole Story
Virginia Humanities helps reveal the lives of the enslaved and widen the scope of narratives presented at plantations statewide.
NewsA Letter From Matthew Gibson
To Our Virginia Humanities Friends, As we near the close of the year, I want to thank you for supporting Virginia Humanities. Because of you, in the last year we …
NewsFrom Conversation to Collective Action
There is active racism, passive racism, and active antiracism, wrote clinical psychologist Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum in her groundbreaking, national bestselling 1997 book, Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting …
NewsJamestown & Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’
By Nora Pehrson Hannah Wojciehowski is a Virginia Humanities Fellow in Residence this fall researching the connection between the Virginia Company’s venture in Jamestown and Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Hannah teaches …
NewsThe Saving Grace of Spring Rolls
By Nora Pehrson Growing up in the 1970s in College Park, Maryland with a Vietnamese-born mother and an American-born father, Virginia Humanities Fellow Kim O’Connell’s experience of identity has always …
NewsBay to Belly
By Nora Pehrson Thanks to a grant from Virginia Humanities, the Watermen’s Museum in Yorktown, Virginia is developing a traveling exhibit devoted to the food systems of the Chesapeake Bay …
