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This Week in Virginia History — 125 episodes · page 1 of 2
Week of January 3: The Great Cold Wave
Week of December 27: Richard Slaughter's Memories
Week of December 20: The Second Battle of Saltville
Week of January 10: The Inauguration of Virginia's 2nd Term Governor
Week of December 13: Williamsburg's Homespun Ball
Week of December 6: The Murder of Daniel Park
Week of November 29: James Lafayette Petitions for his Freedom
Week of November 22: The Demise of Richmond's Electric Streetcars
Week of November 15: Lewis and Clark reach the Pacific Ocean
Week of November 8: Lord Dunmore's Proclamation of Freedom
Week of November 1: Virginia opens public schools
Week of October 25: the resignation of John B. Eastham
Week of October 18: Irene Morgan defies segregation laws
Week of October 11: The opening of the largest hospital in the south
Week of October 4: The escape of George and Rebecca Latimer
Week of September 27: Eyre Crowe publishes images of slavery
Week of September 21: The lynching of Thomas Smith
Week of September 13: The Gloucester County Conspiracy
Week of September 6: The Monticello Wine Company disaster
Week of August 16: Virginia gets a new governor
Week of August 9: The Sabotage at City Point
Week of August 3: Booker T. Washington at the Jamestown Exposition
Week of July 26: The birth of a civil rights icon
BONUS: Cville Puzzle Hunt episode
Week of July 19: The death of a woman of firsts
Week of July 12: General Pope’s short sojourn in Culpeper County
Week of July 5: The Witch of Pungo condemned to a ducking
Week of June 21: The Tenth President Turned Traitor
Week of June 14: Caroline Preston Davis broke an educational barrier
Week of June 7: Williamsburg became the capital of Virginia
Week of May 31: Catherine Foster was persecuted by UVA students
Week of May 24: A Virginia Civil Rights Leader was arrested
Week of May 17: The Hillsville Massacrer gets his due
Week of May 10: The Siren of the Shenandoah was captured at sea
Week of May 3: Murder on the steps of justice
Week of April 26: The first Black female doctor passed her Virginia exams
Week of April 19: The death of the All-American Gibson Girl
Week of April 12: A premier scholar of African American history dies
Week of April 5: The Battles of Sailor’s Creek
Week of March 29: The Defenders' Last Stand
Week of March 22: The Jamestown Massacre
Week of March 15: The Marquis de Lafayette came to Virginia
Week of March 8: The battle of the ironclads
Week of March 1: The first Black-owned bank in the U.S. opens in Richmond
Week of Feb 22: The Dahlgren Affair
Week of Feb 15: Shadrach Minkins was arrested in Boston
Week of Feb 8: An appeal to Jefferson for Black schools
Week of Feb 1: The Jefferson Family Feud
Week of Jan 25: Virginia’s black army regiment gets mustered out of service
Week of Jan 18: The "Lost Cause" narrative gathered steam
Week of January 11: America gets more than it bargained for
Week of January 4: Virginia’s first woman in Congress starts her term
Week of Decembrer 28: Holiday Horror
Week of December 21: The Slipper Slayer gets a Governor’s pardon
Week of December 14: George Washington died
Week of Dec 7: UVA's Company G disbanded
Week of Nov 30: Ferdinando Fairfax's emancipation plan
Week of Nov 23: Blackbeard’s reign ends
Week of Nov 16: Court orders two men sold into slavery
Week of Nov 9: The death of a 19th century founder
Week of Nov 2: Danville Massacre killed the Readjuster Party
Week of October 26: Death and funeral of Daniel Webster Davis
Week of October 19: Stonewall Jackson was unveiled
Week of October 12: Joseph Abrams freed his own family
Week of October 5: Charlottesville banned all public gatherings
Week of September 28: Virginia's first black school opens
Week of September 21: Virginia goes dry
Week of September 14: The declension of Prof. George Blaettermann
Week of September 7: Jamestown burns during the first rebellion in the Colonies
Week of August 31: Scandalmonger James Callender exposed Thomas Jefferson’s secret
Week of August 24: James T.S. Taylor joined the Union army
Week of August 17: Hurricane Camille makes landfall
Week of August 10: The death of Charles Venable
Week of August 3: Eugenics proponent declares most power in the state
Week of July 27: Farmville Civil Rights protests began
Week of July 20: Elizabeth Key Grinstead won her freedom
Week of July 13: A brutal murder – and a mob makes no efforts at disguise
Week of July 6: Virginia’s first sit-down strike erupted in violence
Week of June 29: Death of a founding father
Week of June 22: The Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Week of June 15: Five black men petition President Andrew Johnson
Week of June 8: The murder of a Founding Father
Week of June 1: A marriage changed U.S. law
Week of May 25: A dancing legend was born
Week of May 18: Major General Benjamin Butler feels his way into building Freedom’s Fortress
Week of May 11: England establishes its first permanent settlement in North America
Week of May 4: A former Confederate general puts on a US Army uniform
Week of April 27: Disaster in the Virginia State Capitol
Week of April 20: Robert E. Lee resigns from the U.S. Army
Week of April 13: Jefferson Society gives a speech advocating for emancipation
Week of April 6: Washington family sells Mount Vernon
Week of March 31: Seventeen people
Week of March 24: US Supreme Court strikes down the Virginia poll tax
Week of March 17: Joseph Fossett finds out he will be freed
Week of March 10: George Washington searches for his runaway enslaved cook Hercules
Week of March 3: Slavery ended in Charlottesville
Week of Feb 23: Professor Gordon Blaine Hancock argues against the Racial Integrity Act
Week of Feb 16: Shadrach Minkins escapes from the clutches of the Fugitive Slave Act
Week of Feb 9: Restored Government of Virginia ratifies the 13th amendment
Week of Feb 2: Making lynching a state crime in Virginia