NewsExecutive Function with Virginia’s Matthew Gibson
Humanities magazine, published by the National Endowment for the Humanities recently talked with our executive director, Matthew Gibson, about his career path, creating Encyclopedia Virginia, and our new public humanities …
NewsPandemic Pockets
What do you do for work? That answer changed for many people at the top of the pandemic.
NewsREPLAY: Talkin’ Hurricanes
Unfortunately, when tourists travel for clean air, they bring polluted air with them.
NewsComing Out & Coming of Age in Graphic Novels: The Magic Fish with Trung Le Nguyen
Trung Le Nguyen discusses The Magic Fish, his YA graphic novel that deals with the complexity of family and how stories can bring us together, in conversation with his editor, …
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NewsThe Woman Who Refused to “Obey”
Sarah Harrison Blair offers a tantalizing glimpse of unlikely female agency in colonial Virginia. She was the daughter of wealthy Surry County tobacco planter, trader, and land speculator Benjamin Harrison II. By the time of Sarah’s birth in 1670, the Harrisons were already a political dynasty in the making. Her father served in the House of […]
NewsQ&A with Festival Interns Melissa Zhu and Aaron Rose
Get to know Festival interns Melissa Zhu and Aaron Rose…
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NewsSizzling Summer Suspense! With Alyssa Cole and Dorothy Koomson
Alyssa Cole, author of When No One is Watching, and Dorothy Koomson, author of I Know What You’ve Done, discuss digging into neighborhood secrets, disappearances, and conspiracies in their unputdownable …
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NewsQ&A with Shelf Life author Dorothy Koomson
Get to know Shelf Life author Dorothy Koomson…
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NewsPandemics Past
There’s been a lot of coverage about the challenges of distributing the Covid-19 vaccine. How do we get it to distant areas? How do we use a whole vial before it expires? What about the special refrigerators needed to keep it cold enough? But these problems seem minor compared to the very first vaccine distribution in the early 1800s. Historian Allyson Poska shares the story of 29 orphan boys who crossed the Atlantic Ocean as live incubators for the smallpox vaccine and what lessons we can learn from this early campaign.
NewsThe World in the Whale with Rebecca Giggs and Nick Pyenson
Rebecca Giggs, author of Fathoms: The World in the Whale, discusses the role of whales in our global culture and changing environment, in conversation with Nick Pyenson, author of Spying …
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NewsLondon Fog, LA Smog
Almost overnight, things that had not been crimes became criminalized in a new Victorian era.
NewsApply now! 2022 Festival internships
The Virginia Festival of the Book offers paid internships to students…
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NewsLINKED: Stories Crossing the Color Line
How a grant from Virginia Humanities is helping the Richmond chapter expand its work of bringing Virginians together to face the legacy of slavery
