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