NewsAfter Virginia Tech
Thomas P. Kapsidelis, a former Virginia Humanities residential fellow, is the author of After Virginia Tech: Guns, Safety, and Healing in the Era of Mass Shootings, published in 2019 by The …
NewsA Biography of the Domestic Slave Trade
While the domestic slave trade is widely acknowledged as a significant force in American history, it is less commonly understood that the trade itself has a history and that it …
NewsA Political History of the Food Stamp Program
Tracy Roof is writing a history of the food stamp program, also known as SNAP. Roof says the book will be the first of its kind. We caught up with her to find out how the COVID-19 pandemic is changing her research.
NewsHow To Research Women Like a Historical Novelist
Are you researching a female ancestor or historical figure?Are you gathering facts or is there more to the story? In this webinar, recorded April 23, 2020, author and Virginia Humanities …
NewsThe Arrival of Black Voting
Watch this special webinar with three experts on the history of early voting. Don DeBats, who is teaching American Studies at Flinders University in Australia this semester, is researching and …
NewsVideo: 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.
NewsThe 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. …
NewsThe 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
NewsEliza! 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 …
NewsMinority Millennials and the Rise of “Religious Nones”
By Nora Pehrson April Manalang is an assistant professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Norfolk State University, where she teaches classes on citizenship, race, religion, and immigration. As a Virginia Humanities …
