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Engaging Young People in Dialogues About Racism
By Raennah Mitchell In 2019, millennials are projected to surpass baby boomers as the largest living generation in America. And with a new wave of teen and young adult activists …
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Banking on Freedom
Hear Shennette Garrett-Scott, author of Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal read from her book and take questions at New Dominion Bookshop in this …
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Sea Change
As Tangier disappears, Virginia Humanities thinks about how to preserve the island and why that’s important.
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Meet Virginia Humanities Board Member Dulce Carrillo
Virginia Humanities Board Member Dulce Carrillo was born in Guadalajara and raised in Los Angeles. As an undergrad at Berkeley, she spent a semester in Seoul, South Korea which changed …
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A Mighty Tapestry
The Virginia Folklife Program’s apprenticeship teams are preserving an array of traditions that amplify the Commonwealth’s diverse cultural heritage.
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Staff Picks for the 2019 Virginia Festival of the Book
Virginia Humanities is proud to announce three titles from the 2019 Virginia Festival of the Book as our inaugural group of “Virginia Humanities Staff Picks.” Thick by Tressie McMillan Cottom, …
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Remembering Rob Vaughan
By Matthew Gibson Robert C. Vaughan III—Virginia Humanities’ founder and president—passed away Wednesday evening. While many of us knew Rob as the head of Virginia Humanities for forty-three years, he …
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Just Say No
By Brendan Wolfe We had to call it something,” Kelley Libby told me, referring to a new, five-part podcast she developed in collaboration with James Madison’s Montpelier. “So we decided …
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The Long Roads of Memory
By David Bearinger Justin Reid tells the story this way. In 2014 he set out to find the site where his ancestors had been enslaved. What he found was not …
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Overlooked
Our shared historical narratives—whether Black, White, or Brown—are all interconnected and can’t be understood in isolation from each other. For that reason, we’re always striving to tell more complete, inclusive …
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Turning the Page
By Brendan Wolfe Traditionally, twenty-five years marks a silver anniversary, but for the Virginia Festival of the Book every year is a paper anniversary. Since the planning for this annual …
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