
REPLAY: How To Go Clubbing
Remember going out dancing in the pre-pandemic world? This week, With Good Reason takes you to a few fabulous spots for togetherness.

Family Secrets in Fiction
In this webinar, recorded October 8, 2020, beloved novelist Jill McCorkle discusses her latest book, Hieroglyphics, with author Brendan Mathews. This deeply layered and masterful novel explores what it means …

#WhyIVoteVA Campaign
With Good Reason and Virginia Humanities is kicking off #WhyIVoteVA. Call us at (434) 253-0396 and let us know…

Black Girls’ Journeys of Resilience and Community
This webinar, recorded October 6, 2020, features an inter-generational conversation of resilience and hope between Dr. Shennette Garrett-Scott and Ka’myia Gunn. In a dialogue moderated by Ravynn K. Stringfield, they …

Q&A with Shelf Life author Jill McCorkle
Get to know SHELF LIFE author Jill McCorkle…
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Get to know #OwnVoices literature
Unfamiliar with #OwnVoices? Find more information about the term and its significance here…
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The Age of Astonishment
In this webinar, recorded October 6, 2020, Bill Morris discusses The Age of Astonishment, his forthcoming nonfiction book about his grandfather, John Morris. In the century in which he lived, …

The Richmond Folk Festival 2020 – A Virtual Celebration
There will be no big top tents or jam-packed stages, but the 2020 Richmond Folk Festival is still happening, and you can attend it along with people all across Virginia …

Predicting Hotspots
What if we could predict civil conflict 5 years in advance with machine learning? What might we do differently?

Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote
In this webinar, recorded October 2, 2020, Johns Hopkins University professor Martha S. Jones, discusses her critically acclaimed, recently published book, Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, …

EV Election Edition
The air is crisp, and the first hints of color are showing in the Blue Ridge, which means that pumpkin spice lattes and the fifty-ninth U.S. presidential election must be… Read More»

#OwnVoices Fiction
In this webinar, recorded October 1, 2020, Yamile Saied Méndez discusses her latest young adult novel, Furia, a powerful, #ownvoices contemporary YA for fans of The Poet X and I …

Virginia Women in Politics
This webinar, recorded September 25, 2020, is a conversation between two Virginia public servants: Senator Jennifer McClellan, a Democrat who is running for Governor in 2021, and Senator Jen A. Kiggans, a first-term Republican …

The Voyage of the USS Albatross
Many of us spent the summer fishing. But could overfishing be changing fish genetics?