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VA Folklife Area at Richmond Folk Festival to Showcase Car Culture
Virginia Humanities joins the Richmond Folk Festival in announcing the Virginia Folklife Area theme for the 2019 Richmond Folk Festival: “Hot Rods and Hot Licks.” When: The 15th annual Richmond …
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Tastes & Tales from Tangier
Watch the live stream of this event from Oct. 24 in Norfolk at The Hermitage Museum and Gardens.
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Minority 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 …
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Virginia Humanities Announces Five New Board Members
Virginia Humanities welcomes five new Board members, two of whom have been appointed by Governor Ralph Northam. These individuals will join a Board composed of 24 distinguished Virginia residents. “I …
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Announcing Nine Fellowships
The Fellowship program at Virginia Humanities awards stipends and offices to scholars and writers each year for one or more semesters. More than 350 individuals have been awarded a residential …
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Remembering Karenne Wood
With great sadness we share with you news that Karenne Wood, director of our Virginia Indian Programs, former Board member, and dear friend passed away Sunday morning. We were blessed …
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The Secret Life of an Encyclopedia Entry
By Nora Pehrson – Virginia Humanities Communications Intern Since publishing its first content in 2008, our Encyclopedia Virginia (EV) has created a trove of nearly 2,000 entries, spanning topics from …
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Virginia Humanities Awarded Grant from the National Trust for Historic Preservation
Virginia Humanities is one of more than twenty new grantees in the second-year cycle for the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund.
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Virginia Humanities Announces Twenty-Five New Grants
Virginia Humanities announces $140,900 in recent grants to twenty-five nonprofit organizations in support of public humanities programs for audiences throughout the Commonwealth and beyond. The Virginia Humanities Grants Program helps …
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Meet Virginia Humanities Board Member Will Trinkle
Virginia Humanities Board Member Will Trinkle recently returned to Virginia after living for twenty-eight years in New York City. He’s a real estate developer with a company based in Roanoke. …
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Mapping Virginia’s Slave Dwellings
A few months back we told you about a short documentary coming out from Google Earth Outreach. The six-minute film highlights the work our Encyclopedia Virginia and African American Programs …
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