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 Apr 4, 2020

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This series contains audio from lectures given in person or online at the Virginia Museum of History & Culture by renowned authors on historical topics. The content and opinions expressed by guest lecturers in these presentations are solely those of the speaker and not necessarily of the Virginia Museum of History & Culture.To view a video of the lecture, visit VirginiaHistory.org/video. The Virginia Museum of History & Culture is owned and operated by the Virginia Historical Society — a private, non-profit organization. The historical society is the oldest cultural organization in Virginia, and one of the oldest and most distinguished history organizations in the nation. For use in its state history museum and its renowned research library, the historical society cares for a collection of nearly nine million items representing the ever-evolving story of Virginia.

Episode Date
Untold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson
Mar 12, 2024
First Family: George Washington's Heirs and the Making of America
Mar 12, 2024
Racial Reconciliation In Modern Richmond
Mar 12, 2024
Soldier of Destiny: Slavery, Secession, and the Redemption of Ulysses S. Grant
Feb 20, 2024
"In a Constitutional Way": Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, and the Meaning of a Loyal Opposition
Feb 20, 2024
Navigating Native Land and Water in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake
Feb 06, 2024
Washington’s Marines: The Origins of the Corps and the American Revolution
Feb 06, 2024
American Visions: The United States, 1800–1860
Dec 15, 2023
VIRTUAL LECTURE - Escape to the City: Fugitive Slaves in Antebellum Richmond
Sep 25, 2023
A Madman’s Will: John Randolph, Four Hundred Slaves, and the Mirage of Freedom
Sep 25, 2023
Mourning the Presidents: Loss and Legacy in American Culture
Sep 18, 2023
Almost Dead: Slavery and Social Rebirth in the Black Urban Atlantic
Aug 28, 2023
Virginia’s Lost Appalachian Trail
Aug 10, 2023
At the Cannon’s Mouth: Battlefield Relics and the Making of Civil War Memory
Jul 31, 2023
Apollo to the Moon: A History in Objects
Jul 25, 2023
2023 Hazel and Fulton Chauncey Lecture - The Jeffersonians
Jul 25, 2023
A Constitutional Commonwealth
Jul 25, 2023
Gettysburg’s Southern Front: Opportunity and Failure at Richmond
Jul 10, 2023
The Virginia Venture: American Colonization and English Society, 1580-1660
Jun 27, 2023
Religion and Race in the Story of Public Executions in the South
Jun 13, 2023
Spitfire: An American WWII Fighter Pilot in the RAF
Jun 13, 2023
Turning Fact into Fiction: Writing Fiction about the Richmond Theater Fire
Jun 13, 2023
“War is horrid, in fact”: Virginians in the West Indies Expedition, 1740–42
Jun 13, 2023
“War is horrid, in fact”: Virginians in the West Indies Expedition, 1740–42
Jun 06, 2023
Confessions of a Southern Church
May 02, 2023
The Burning Land: When the Family Goes to War, and the War Comes Home
Apr 06, 2023
Perspectives from the Congressional Naming Commission and the Army’s War on the Lost Cause
Apr 06, 2023
Silent Spring Revolution: Kennedy, Carson, Johnson, Nixon, & the Great Environmental Awakening
Mar 09, 2023
Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp
Mar 02, 2023
The Hero from Hopewell: The Rev. Curtis W. Harris and the Civil Rights Movement
Feb 09, 2023
The Byrd Machine in Virginia: The Rise and Fall of a Conservative Political Organization
Jan 31, 2023
The Heart of Hell
Jan 17, 2023
The Old Bay Line—1840 to 1962
Jan 17, 2023
The “Other” Valley Campaign
Jan 17, 2023
“The United States of Virginia”: Jefferson’s Invention of America through a Virginian Lens
Jan 17, 2023
The Permanent Resident: Excavations and Explorations of George Washington’s Life
Jan 17, 2023
Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb
Jan 17, 2023
The Devil’s Half Acre: Book Talk and Discussion with Kristen Green and Dr. Carolivia Herron
Sep 20, 2022
The Lincolns, the Booths, and the Spirits: Two Families and the Otherworld in the Civil War
Sep 20, 2022
In Pursuit of Jefferson: Traveling through Europe with the Most Perplexing Founding Father
Sep 07, 2022
Captivity and the British Subject in Colonial America
Sep 07, 2022
An Evening with Joseph Ellis (J. Harvie Wilkinson, Jr. Lecture 2022)
Sep 07, 2022
In the True Blue’s Wake: Slavery and Freedom among the Families of Smithfield Plantation
Sep 07, 2022
Curators at Work: Paving the Way: Desegregating Transportation in Virginia
Sep 07, 2022
Curator Conversations: Folk Stories with William and Ann Oppenhimer
Sep 07, 2022
Living Queer History: Remembrance and Belonging in a Southern City
Sep 07, 2022
The Life and Legacy of Emily Winfree: From Enslavement to Carnegie Hall
Sep 06, 2022
The Great Chief Opechancanough and the War for America (Christian, Jr. Lecture 2022)
Jun 07, 2022
Washington at the Plow: The Founding Farmer and the Question of Slavery
Jun 07, 2022
Lost Attractions: The Parks and Places That Built the Tidewater
Jun 06, 2022
Against All Odds: A True Story of Ultimate Courage and Survival in World War II
May 31, 2022
The Rarefied Life of George Washington Parke Custis
May 31, 2022
Becoming An Author: Amelie Rives's Audacious Entrance Into Publishing
May 17, 2022
The Material World of Eyre Hall: Four Centuries of Chesapeake History
Apr 26, 2022
Recovering History, Reclaiming The Present: The Apalachee Diaspora Since the 16th Century
Apr 26, 2022
How Imperfect Is Our Past? A Conversation With Charles Bryan
Mar 29, 2022
Activism from Home 101 (Commonwealth Classroom)
Mar 22, 2022
Hidden Figure of GPS (Commonwealth Classroom)
Mar 22, 2022
John Marshall: The Man Who Made the Supreme Court
Mar 21, 2022
Confederate Citadel: Richmond and Its People at War
Mar 21, 2022
The Presidents vs. The Press
Mar 15, 2022
Reclamation: How a Monticello Descendant Uncovered and Restored Her Family’s Heritage
Mar 15, 2022
A New Era In Building: Black Educational Activism In Goochland County
Mar 01, 2022
The Record of Murders and Outrages: Racial Violence and The Fight Over Truth During Reconstruction
Feb 15, 2022
Ends Of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee's Army After Appomattox
Nov 16, 2021
Edgar Allan Poe: Lessons for Creative Success from Literature’s Greatest Antihero
Nov 02, 2021
Travels with George: In Search Of Washington and His Legacy (Wilkinson Lecture 2021)
Oct 26, 2021
The Constitution of Virginia: Defining the Political Community
Oct 12, 2021
George Washington: The Making of a Leader
Oct 12, 2021
Escape!: The Story of the Confederacy's Infamous Libby Prison and the Civil War's Largest Jail Break
Oct 12, 2021
A Fire in the Wilderness: The First Battle Between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee
Oct 12, 2021
The Strange Genius of Mr. O: The World of the United States’ First Forgotten Celebrity
Oct 12, 2021
Surviving Southampton: Finding Women in Nat Turner’s Community
Oct 12, 2021
President without a Party
Oct 12, 2021
Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner’s Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
Oct 12, 2021
Death and Rebirth in a Southern City: Richmond's Historic Cemeteries
Oct 12, 2021
Rebellious Passage: The Creole Revolt and America's Coastal Slave Trade
Oct 12, 2021
The Story of Virginia: The Arrival of the First Africans
Oct 12, 2021
The Lost Colony Was Never Lost!
Sep 13, 2021
Transforming the James River in Richmond
Jan 08, 2021
What Made George Washington Tick
Dec 30, 2020
The Great Partnership: Robert E. Lee & Stonewall Jackson
Dec 30, 2020
Restoring America’s Most Significant Gardens
Dec 30, 2020
Confederate Exceptionalism: Civil War Myth & Memory in the 21st Century
Dec 30, 2020
Soul Liberty: The Evolution of Black Religious Politics
Dec 30, 2020
The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution
Dec 30, 2020
Freedom and Unfreedom in the Great Dismal Swamp
Dec 30, 2020
A Fiendish Murder: The Sad Saga of Charles and Susan Watkins
Dec 30, 2020
Bound To The Fire
Mar 12, 2020
Inventing Disaster
Feb 26, 2020
Searching For Stonewall Jackson
Feb 07, 2020
Lincoln's Spies
Feb 06, 2020
Gerrymanders
Feb 06, 2020
The Property of The Nation
Dec 17, 2019
From Reel To Real Indians
Dec 17, 2019
Is Cancer Still the Emperor? How Innovative Research and Treatments Offer Hope for a Cure
Dec 17, 2019
The Notorious History of The Virginia State Penitentiary
Dec 17, 2019
The British Are Coming: The War for America, 1775–77 (Wilkinson Lecture 2019)
Dec 13, 2019
The Ghosts of Eden Park
Oct 24, 2019
Searching For Black Confederates: The Civil War's Most Persistent Myth
Oct 03, 2019
Keep on Keeping On
Sep 16, 2019
Play Ball! America's Doughboys and the National Pastime in the Great War
Sep 03, 2019
Thurgood Marshall: A Life in American History
Aug 26, 2019
Virginia Waterways and The Underground Railroad
Aug 15, 2019
The Life and Times of Henry Stuart Foote (Chauncey Lecture 2019)
Aug 15, 2019
The Jamestown Brides
Jun 28, 2019
Scottish Stone Masons and Virginia Stone
Jun 05, 2019
Daniel Morgan, Virginian
May 24, 2019
FDR and Marshall: The Men Who Saved D-Day (George C. Marshall Foundation Lecture)
May 24, 2019
Native Southerners: The Indigenous People Who Made and Remade the South
May 24, 2019
American Moonshot: JFK & the Great Space Race(Christian Lecture 2019)
May 24, 2019
The Calculus Of Violence: How Americans Fought the Civil War
Apr 30, 2019
The League Of Wives
Apr 30, 2019
Jefferson’s Treasure: How Albert Gallatin Saved the New Nation from Debt
Mar 22, 2019
Hampton Roads Murder and Mayhem: The Darker Side of the Tidewater
Mar 14, 2019
Breaking The Silence: League Of Wives Panel Discussion
Mar 07, 2019
Across Time: Robinson House, Its Land and People
Mar 07, 2019
Tracking Down a Confederate Deserter after Gettysburg
Mar 06, 2019
Murals Of Richmond Artist Panel
Jan 31, 2019
Pocahontas Symposium: Session 3
Jan 31, 2019
Pocahontas Symposium: Session 2
Jan 31, 2019
Pocahontas Symposium: Session 1
Jan 31, 2019
Rampage: MacArthur, Yamashita, and the Battle Of Manila
Jan 31, 2019
1619: Jamestown and the Forging Of American Democracy
Jan 31, 2019
Without Precedent: The Invention of Chief Justice John Marshall
Oct 16, 2018
The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s
Oct 16, 2018
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
Oct 16, 2018
Virginian Honor: The Ethics of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson
Oct 16, 2018
“A Perfect Hell of Blood”: The Battle of the Crater
Oct 16, 2018
"Keep It a Holy Thing": Lee Chapel’s Greatest Challenge
Oct 16, 2018
From Richmond to France: Images and Stories of Richmond and Her World War I Soldiers
Jul 17, 2018
Farm to Easel: Queena Stovall’s Evolution as an Artist
Jul 11, 2018
Authentic Revolutionaries
Jul 11, 2018
Best Seat In The House
Jul 11, 2018
Churchill's Legacy: Two Speeches to Save the World
Jul 11, 2018
The Diamond - Miracle on the Boulevard
Jul 11, 2018
Supreme Injustice: Slavery in the Nation’s Highest Court
Jul 11, 2018
Letters To A Soviet Prison
Jul 11, 2018
The Jemima Code
Jul 09, 2018
Dolley Madison and the Politics of Gracious Hospitality
Mar 28, 2018
Haven of Safety: The Kaiser’s Courteous Pirates in Hampton Roads
Mar 20, 2018
When Every Second Counted: A Reflection on the Race to Transplant the First Human Heart
Mar 13, 2018
Lord Dunmore's War: Last Indian Conflict of the Colonial Era
Mar 11, 2018
Mark Twain, FFV? America’s Most Beloved Author and the Old Dominion
Mar 10, 2018
Doing Their Bit: The Surprising Role of Virginians in the Great War
Feb 19, 2018
WW1 America Curator Talk with Brian Horrigan
Feb 13, 2018
Our Little Monitor: The Greatest Invention of the Civil War
Jan 23, 2018
Toxic Dust: The History and Legacy of Virginia’s Kepone Disaster
Jan 01, 2018
Shockoe Hill Cemetery: A Richmond Landmark's History
Dec 30, 2017
Richmond’s Gilded Age: The Grit Behind the Glitz
Oct 31, 2017
Stonewall Jackson’s Little Sorrel
Sep 11, 2017
Patrick Henry: Champion of Liberty
Aug 20, 2017
The Extremes of Virginia: Two Commonwealths, Separated and Unequal
Aug 15, 2017
Jamestown, the Truth Revealed (Chauncey Lecture 2018)
Jul 20, 2017
The Dooleys of Richmond
Jul 20, 2017
The Paradox of Robert Edward Lee
Jun 16, 2017
Feuding Founders: Battling and Backstabbing in Early America
May 12, 2017
Dreams of War and Peace: How Americans Experienced the Civil War in Their Sleep
May 09, 2017
The Best Rebel Reminiscence: Edward Porter Alexander’s
Apr 25, 2017
All Falling Faiths: Reflections on the Promise and Failure of the 1960s
Mar 31, 2017
A Saga of the New South: Race, Law, and Public Debt in Virginia
Mar 27, 2017
Lonely Colonist Seeks Wife
Mar 06, 2017
Airship ROMA: A Forgotten Tragedy
Mar 02, 2017
Six Encounters with Lincoln: A President Confronts Democracy and Its Demons
Mar 02, 2017
Historic Disasters of Richmond
Jan 19, 2017
The Private Jefferson: Most Blessed of the Patriarchs
Jan 06, 2017
Documents and Drawings: The Private Jefferson Examined
Dec 12, 2016
Horns, Masks, and Women's Dress: How the First Klan Used Costume to Build Domestic Terrorism
Dec 09, 2016
Thomas Jefferson, Revered and Reviled
Dec 02, 2016
Revolt and Repression: Reconsidering the Nat Turner Slave Revolt
Nov 11, 2016
On the Back Roads Again: More People, Places, and Pie Around Virginia
Nov 11, 2016
Race, Reconstruction, and Memory in Postwar Richmond
Nov 11, 2016
The Mathews Men: Seven Brothers and the War Against Hitler’s U-Boats
Oct 20, 2016
The Paradoxical Emancipator: Abraham Lincoln and the Other Thirteenth Amendment
Sep 23, 2016
The Well-Dressed Hobo: The Many Wondrous Adventures of a Man Who Loves Trains
Sep 15, 2016
Last Chance for Peace: Virginia's Role in the Washington Peace Conference of 1861
Sep 06, 2016
Realistic Visionary: The Presidency of George Washington
Aug 19, 2016
Woodrow Wilson: The Virginia Factor
Aug 19, 2016
Patsy Cline and the Problem of Respectability
Aug 19, 2016
The Cultural Worlds of Patsy Cline's Winchester
Aug 19, 2016
Patsy Cline and a Changing South
Aug 19, 2016
Backstory with the History Guys Paying Up: The History of Taxation
Aug 19, 2016
Notes from the Ground: Science, Soil, & Society in the American Countryside
Aug 19, 2016
Managing the Mountains: Land Use Planning, New Deal, & Creation of Federal Landscape in Appalachia
Aug 19, 2016
Eco-History of the Tidewater: The Long View
Aug 19, 2016
Message, Money, and Management: A Roundtable Discussion on the Future of the Chesapeake Bay
Aug 19, 2016
A Chat with Willie and Woody
Aug 15, 2016
The Roads from War to Reconstruction and Beyond
Jul 20, 2016
Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America
Jun 10, 2016
First Dads: Parenting and Politics from George Washington to Barack Obama
Jun 10, 2016
The Civil War's Most Valuable Diarist
May 03, 2016
Thunder and Flames: American Doughboys at War, 1917–1918
Apr 15, 2016
Kill Jeff Davis: The Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid on Richmond in 1864
Mar 25, 2016
The Bedford Boys (2016 Christian Lecture)
Mar 23, 2016
Richmond and the American Dream: Revolution and Reality
Feb 12, 2016
From Cotton Fields to Skyscrapers
Feb 10, 2016
Moses Ezekiel: Civil War Soldier, Renowned Sculptor
Feb 08, 2016
Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson
Feb 03, 2016
Lincoln: President Elect
Feb 02, 2016
Matthew Fontaine Maury: The Last Crusade
Feb 01, 2016
George Washington’s Journey: The President Forges a New Nation
Feb 01, 2016
The Cherokee Diaspora: A History of Migration, Survival, and Pride
Dec 04, 2015
Champion of War, Champion of Peace: The Leadership of George C. Marshall
Nov 24, 2015
Weird-but-True Things Most People Don't Know about the Roaring Twenties
Nov 23, 2015
Unionists in Virginia: Politics, Secession, and Their Plan to Prevent Civil War
Oct 30, 2015
God’s Acre: Why African American Cemeteries Matter
Oct 08, 2015
Magna Carta: 800 Years since Runnymede
Sep 11, 2015
William Cabell Rives: A Country to Serve
Sep 10, 2015
She Can Bring Us Home: Dr. Dorothy Boulding Ferebee, Civil Rights Pioneer
Aug 28, 2015
The Quest for Loving: Race, Sex, and the Freedom to Marry
Aug 27, 2015
What So Proudly We Hailed: Francis Scott Key, A Life
Aug 27, 2015
A Native Son Comes Home: The Life and Legacy of Arthur Ashe
Aug 26, 2015
The History Crisis in America: Myth and Reality
Aug 03, 2015
The Bartlett Book of Garden Elements
Jul 31, 2015
Fortune’s Fool: The Life of John Wilkes Booth (Chauncey Lecture 2015)
Jun 29, 2015
The Poe You May Not Know
Jun 10, 2015
VEE Oral History Project-Gerald P. McCarthy (3 of 3 interviews)
May 20, 2015
VEE Oral History Project-Gerald P. McCarthy (2 of 3 interviews)
May 20, 2015
VEE Oral History Project-Gerald P. McCarthy (1 of 3 interviews)
May 20, 2015
Leadership and Decision-Making in the D-Day Invasion (Christian Lecture 2015)
May 18, 2015
Capital Dames: The Civil War and the Women of Washington
May 15, 2015
Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson
May 11, 2015
James Madison's Gift: The Power of Partnership
May 01, 2015
Lee's Last War Winter
Apr 23, 2015
Confederate Alamo: Bloodbath at Petersburg’s Fort Gregg on April 2, 1865
Apr 02, 2015
What's Wrong with Black Beard?
Mar 31, 2015
Fellow Travelers on the Road to Black Ned’s Forge
Feb 20, 2015
Welcome and Introduction
Feb 12, 2015
Shockoe Valley Topography and the Slave Trade
Feb 12, 2015
Questions on first two presentations
Feb 12, 2015
Locating the 1809 Negro Burial Ground
Feb 12, 2015
From Marshall to Moussaoui: Federal Justice in the Eastern District of Virginia
Feb 10, 2015
Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery Where War Comes Home
Jan 26, 2015
A Gunner in Lee's Army: The Civil War Letters of Thomas Henry Carter
Dec 09, 2014
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
Nov 13, 2014
The Life of Duncan Lee, Red Spy and Cold Warrior
Nov 07, 2014
Richmond’s Old Stone House and Poe Museum
Oct 30, 2014
Woodrow Wilson: Across Three Centuries (Wilkinson Lecture 2014)
Oct 23, 2014
Founders as Fathers: Going Home with Virginia's Revolutionary
Oct 10, 2014
Defiant: American POWs in Vietnam's Most Infamous Prison
Sep 26, 2014
Thomas Jefferson’s Enlightenment—Paris, 1785
Sep 16, 2014
Sheltering Arms: A Legacy of Caring
Sep 03, 2014
Nature's Civil War: Common Soldiers and the Environment in 1862 Virginia
Aug 15, 2014
Establishing Religious Freedom: Jefferson's Statute in Virginia
Aug 05, 2014
From a Richmond Streetcar: Life through the Lens of Harris Stilson
Jul 17, 2014
Winnie Davis: Daughter of the Lost Cause
Jun 27, 2014
War Zone: World War II off the North Carolina Coast
Jun 18, 2014
Lee at Appomattox (Chauncey Lecture 2015)
Jun 11, 2014
The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire
May 28, 2014
The Spring of 1864: A Season of Hope in the United States and the Confederacy
May 08, 2014
Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of WWII
Apr 30, 2014
The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832
Apr 28, 2014
The Grandees of Government: The Origins and Persistence of Undemocratic Politics in Virginia
Apr 11, 2014
From the Earth: The Environment in Virginia's Past and Future
Mar 19, 2014
Backstory with the History Guys: Thanksgiving in American History
Mar 19, 2014
Pistol, Pop, Peanut & Pedro: The Negro League Baseball Experience
Mar 19, 2014
Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War
Mar 11, 2014
We Cannot be Tame Spectators: Four Centuries of Virginia Women's History
Mar 10, 2014
Secretariat
Mar 07, 2014
The Business of Virginia Has Always Been Business
Mar 05, 2014
Tobacco, Mosquito, Slave: Colonial Virginia and the Dawn of Globalization
Mar 05, 2014
Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson
Mar 05, 2014
History Begins at Home: A Personal Journey
Mar 05, 2014
Lincoln: President Elect
Mar 05, 2014
Jefferson in Perspective (Christian Lecture 2014)
Mar 05, 2014
Historic Virginia Gardens
Mar 05, 2014
George Marshall, His Men, and the Recovery of Europe
Mar 05, 2014
On Hallowed Ground: The Story of Arlington National Cemetery
Mar 05, 2014
Virginia Environmental Endowment: Leadership, Leverage, and Legacy
Mar 05, 2014
An African Republic: Black and White Virginians in the Making of Liberia
Mar 05, 2014
The Letters of Oliver and Bernie Hill: The Making of a Legendary Civil Rights Lawyer
Feb 21, 2014
Take Care of the Living: Reconstructing Confederate Veteran Families
Feb 20, 2014
Memories of World War II
Feb 20, 2014
Grand Avenues: The Story of Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the French Visionary
Feb 20, 2014
The Portent: John Brown's Raid in American Memory
Feb 20, 2014
Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend
Feb 18, 2014
"We Shall Not Be Moved": Virginia Songs of Labor
Feb 18, 2014
Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery
Feb 18, 2014
The Jeffersons at Shadwell
Feb 18, 2014
Inventing George Washington: America's Founder in Myth and Memory
Feb 18, 2014
The Real Lost Cause: The Idea of Union in the Memory of the Civil War
Feb 18, 2014
The Diary of a Public Man and Abraham Lincoln
Feb 18, 2014
American City, Southern Place: Richmond on the Eve of War
Feb 18, 2014
Year of Meteors: Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election
Feb 18, 2014
The Crooked Road to Civil War, 1861
Feb 18, 2014
Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit: Plantation Management, 1607–1763
Feb 18, 2014
Lincoln and McClellan
Feb 18, 2014
George Washington's America: A Biography Through His Map
Feb 18, 2014
The Wild Vine: A Forgotten Grape and the Untold Story of American Wine
Feb 18, 2014
The Virginia Plan: William B. Thalhimer and a Rescue from Nazi Germany
Feb 18, 2014
The Constitution of Virginia: From Jefferson's Day to Our Own Time
Feb 18, 2014
The Battle of the Ironclads
Feb 18, 2014
Facts & Legends of Sports in Richmond
Feb 18, 2014
The First Thanksgiving
Feb 18, 2014
Civil War Medicine
Feb 18, 2014
1861: The Civil War Awakening
Feb 18, 2014
Virginia's Confederate Monuments
Feb 18, 2014
Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade
Feb 18, 2014
When the Sun Stood Still: Reflections on the Rev. John Jasper
Feb 18, 2014
American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America
Feb 18, 2014
Before It Was Virginia: Setting the Stage
Feb 18, 2014
Fighting for America: The Struggle for Mastery in North America, 1519-1871
Feb 18, 2014
Lost in Shangri-La: A Story of Survival and Rescue during World War II
Feb 18, 2014
Brown's Battleground in Prince Edward County, Virginia
Feb 18, 2014
Race to the Top of the World: Richard Byrd and the First Flight to the North Pole
Feb 07, 2014
George Thomas: Virginian for the Union
Jan 31, 2014
Telling Our Stories: School Desegregation in Western Virginia
Jan 27, 2014
The Battle of Hué City, South Vietnam, 1968
Jan 27, 2014
For Better or For Worse: The Journey of a POW and His Wife
Jan 27, 2014
Distorted Mirrors: Americans and Their Relations with Russia and China in the Twentieth Century
Jan 27, 2014
The Struggle with Drugs and Thugs in U.S.-Mexican Relations
Jan 27, 2014
Hatteras Island: Keeper of the Outer Banks
Jan 27, 2014
One Nation Under Debt
Jan 27, 2014
Up from History: The Life of Booker T. Washington
Jan 27, 2014
Meuse-Argonne, 1918: The Battle That Ended World War I
Jan 23, 2014
Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath
Jan 23, 2014
From Cotton Fields to Skyscrapers: The Transformation of the South in the Twentieth Century
Jan 21, 2014
Louis Brandeis: An American Legal Giant
Jan 21, 2014
Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through his Private Letters
Jan 21, 2014
Lee and Grant
Jan 21, 2014
Who Looks at Lee Must Think of Washington
Jan 21, 2014
General Lee's Army: From Victory to Collapse
Jan 21, 2014
Lee and the Historians in the Age of the Anti-Hero
Jan 20, 2014
Moses Ezekiel: Civil War Soldier, Renowned Sculptor
Jan 20, 2014
So Ends This Day: An Illustrated Update on the Life and Times of the Monitor, from 1861 to yesterday
Jan 20, 2014
Hidden Treasures: A Short History of the Mary Custis Lee Trunks
Jan 20, 2014
Robert E. Lee: Lessons in Leadership
Jan 20, 2014
Skeletons on the Zahara
Jan 20, 2014
Sites and Stories: African American History in Virginia
Jan 20, 2014
Prestwould: Gracious Living on the American Frontier, 1790-1830
Jan 20, 2014
A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
Jan 20, 2014
Flight from Monticello: Thomas Jefferson at War
Jan 20, 2014
The Ascent of George Washington: The Hidden Political Genius of an American Icon
Jan 10, 2014
Dolley Madison: A Documentary
Jan 10, 2014
The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788–1800
Jan 10, 2014
Jefferson in Perspective
Jan 10, 2014
The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown: The Sea Venture Castaways and the Fate of America
Jan 08, 2014
A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
Jan 08, 2014
Werowocomoco and Fairfield Plantation: Rediscovering the Forgotten Landscapes of Gloucester County
Jan 08, 2014
Mapping Virginia: Pictures of a Moving Place, 1587–1783
Dec 10, 2013
Carillon: The Story of a Richmond Community
Nov 15, 2013
Family of Assassins: The Surratts of Maryland
Nov 01, 2013
First House: Two Centuries with Virginia's First Families
Oct 10, 2013
Contested Borderland: The Civil War in Appalachian Kentucky and Virginia
Oct 03, 2013
War and Pieces: Quilts through America's War Years
Oct 03, 2013
Fighting for Freedom: African Americans and the War of 1812
Oct 03, 2013
Ocracoke: The Pearl of the Outer Banks
Aug 22, 2013
The Feud: The All-American, No-Holds-Barred, Blood-and-Guts Story of the Hatfields and McCoys
Aug 16, 2013
Knights of the Golden Circle: Secret Empire, Secession, Civil War
Aug 15, 2013
The Civil War at a Crossroads: The Seven Days
Jul 09, 2013
Unlocking Menokin’s Secrets: Archaeological and Landscape Research at a Northern Neck Plantation
Jul 09, 2013
John Randolph of Roanoke
Jul 09, 2013
To Bind Up the Nation’s Wounds: An Overview of the Thirteenth Amendment
Jul 09, 2013
Lost Communities of Virginia
Jul 09, 2013
The U.S. Marines at Belleau Wood, June 1918
Jul 09, 2013
More Important Than Gettysburg: The Seven Days Campaign as a Turning Point
Jul 09, 2013
The Queen and the USA: Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee in America
Jul 08, 2013
Edward Coles: Crusade Against Slavery
Jul 08, 2013
A Nation of Deadbeats: An Uncommon History of America's Financial Disasters
Jul 08, 2013
Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
Jul 08, 2013
Good to Great to Gone: The Circuit City Story
Jul 06, 2013
The Reporter Who Knew Too Much: Harrison Salisbury
Jul 06, 2013
Winslow Homer's Virginia
May 30, 2013
Booker T. Washington, Julius Rosenwald, and the Building of Schools for the Segregated South
May 30, 2013
The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945
May 30, 2013
Why Washington Burned and How the President Survived: James Madison and the War of 1812
Mar 06, 2013
Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves
Feb 06, 2013
Martha Jefferson Randolph, Daughter of Monticello
Jan 16, 2013
My Father’s Name: A Black Virginia Family after the Civil War
Jan 12, 2013
The 1811 Richmond Theater Fire
Dec 05, 2012
Planter Oligarchy on Virginia’s Northern Neck
Oct 11, 2012
Civil War Lawyers: Constitutional Questions and Courtroom Dramas
Sep 11, 2012
Cosmic Constitutional Theory: Why Americans Are Losing Their Inalienable Rights to Self-Governance
Sep 05, 2012