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VMHC Lectures — 373 episodes

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1

Untold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson

2

First Family: George Washington's Heirs and the Making of America

3

Racial Reconciliation In Modern Richmond

4

Soldier of Destiny: Slavery, Secession, and the Redemption of Ulysses S. Grant

5

"In a Constitutional Way": Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, and the Meaning of a Loyal Opposition

6

Navigating Native Land and Water in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake

7

Washington’s Marines: The Origins of the Corps and the American Revolution

8

American Visions: The United States, 1800–1860

9

VIRTUAL LECTURE - Escape to the City: Fugitive Slaves in Antebellum Richmond

10

A Madman’s Will: John Randolph, Four Hundred Slaves, and the Mirage of Freedom

11

Mourning the Presidents: Loss and Legacy in American Culture

12

Almost Dead: Slavery and Social Rebirth in the Black Urban Atlantic

13

Virginia’s Lost Appalachian Trail

14

At the Cannon’s Mouth: Battlefield Relics and the Making of Civil War Memory

15

Apollo to the Moon: A History in Objects

16

2023 Hazel and Fulton Chauncey Lecture - The Jeffersonians

17

A Constitutional Commonwealth

18

Gettysburg’s Southern Front: Opportunity and Failure at Richmond

19

The Virginia Venture: American Colonization and English Society, 1580-1660

20

Religion and Race in the Story of Public Executions in the South

21

Spitfire: An American WWII Fighter Pilot in the RAF

22

Turning Fact into Fiction: Writing Fiction about the Richmond Theater Fire

23

“War is horrid, in fact”: Virginians in the West Indies Expedition, 1740–42

24

“War is horrid, in fact”: Virginians in the West Indies Expedition, 1740–42

25

Confessions of a Southern Church

26

The Burning Land: When the Family Goes to War, and the War Comes Home

27

Perspectives from the Congressional Naming Commission and the Army’s War on the Lost Cause

28

Silent Spring Revolution: Kennedy, Carson, Johnson, Nixon, & the Great Environmental Awakening

29

Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp

30

The Hero from Hopewell: The Rev. Curtis W. Harris and the Civil Rights Movement

31

The Byrd Machine in Virginia: The Rise and Fall of a Conservative Political Organization

32

The Heart of Hell

33

The Old Bay Line—1840 to 1962

34

The “Other” Valley Campaign

35

“The United States of Virginia”: Jefferson’s Invention of America through a Virginian Lens

36

The Permanent Resident: Excavations and Explorations of George Washington’s Life

37

Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb

38

The Devil’s Half Acre: Book Talk and Discussion with Kristen Green and Dr. Carolivia Herron

39

The Lincolns, the Booths, and the Spirits: Two Families and the Otherworld in the Civil War

40

In Pursuit of Jefferson: Traveling through Europe with the Most Perplexing Founding Father

41

Captivity and the British Subject in Colonial America

42

An Evening with Joseph Ellis (J. Harvie Wilkinson, Jr. Lecture 2022)

43

In the True Blue’s Wake: Slavery and Freedom among the Families of Smithfield Plantation

44

Curators at Work: Paving the Way: Desegregating Transportation in Virginia

45

Curator Conversations: Folk Stories with William and Ann Oppenhimer

46

Living Queer History: Remembrance and Belonging in a Southern City

47

The Life and Legacy of Emily Winfree: From Enslavement to Carnegie Hall

48

The Great Chief Opechancanough and the War for America (Christian, Jr. Lecture 2022)

49

Washington at the Plow: The Founding Farmer and the Question of Slavery

50

Lost Attractions: The Parks and Places That Built the Tidewater

51

Against All Odds: A True Story of Ultimate Courage and Survival in World War II

52

The Rarefied Life of George Washington Parke Custis

53

Becoming An Author: Amelie Rives's Audacious Entrance Into Publishing

54

The Material World of Eyre Hall: Four Centuries of Chesapeake History

55

Recovering History, Reclaiming The Present: The Apalachee Diaspora Since the 16th Century

56

How Imperfect Is Our Past? A Conversation With Charles Bryan

57

Activism from Home 101 (Commonwealth Classroom)

58

Hidden Figure of GPS (Commonwealth Classroom)

59

John Marshall: The Man Who Made the Supreme Court

60

Confederate Citadel: Richmond and Its People at War

61

The Presidents vs. The Press

62

Reclamation: How a Monticello Descendant Uncovered and Restored Her Family’s Heritage

63

A New Era In Building: Black Educational Activism In Goochland County

64

The Record of Murders and Outrages: Racial Violence and The Fight Over Truth During Reconstruction

65

Ends Of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee's Army After Appomattox

66

Edgar Allan Poe: Lessons for Creative Success from Literature’s Greatest Antihero

67

Travels with George: In Search Of Washington and His Legacy (Wilkinson Lecture 2021)

68

The Constitution of Virginia: Defining the Political Community

69

George Washington: The Making of a Leader

70

Escape!: The Story of the Confederacy's Infamous Libby Prison and the Civil War's Largest Jail Break

71

A Fire in the Wilderness: The First Battle Between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee

72

The Strange Genius of Mr. O: The World of the United States’ First Forgotten Celebrity

73

Surviving Southampton: Finding Women in Nat Turner’s Community

74

President without a Party

75

Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner’s Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause

76

Death and Rebirth in a Southern City: Richmond's Historic Cemeteries

77

Rebellious Passage: The Creole Revolt and America's Coastal Slave Trade

78

The Story of Virginia: The Arrival of the First Africans

79

The Lost Colony Was Never Lost!

80

Transforming the James River in Richmond

81

What Made George Washington Tick

82

The Great Partnership: Robert E. Lee & Stonewall Jackson

83

Restoring America’s Most Significant Gardens

84

Confederate Exceptionalism: Civil War Myth & Memory in the 21st Century

85

Soul Liberty: The Evolution of Black Religious Politics

86

The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution

87

Freedom and Unfreedom in the Great Dismal Swamp

88

A Fiendish Murder: The Sad Saga of Charles and Susan Watkins

89

Bound To The Fire

90

Inventing Disaster

91

Searching For Stonewall Jackson

92

Lincoln's Spies

93

Gerrymanders

94

The Property of The Nation

95

From Reel To Real Indians

96

Is Cancer Still the Emperor? How Innovative Research and Treatments Offer Hope for a Cure

97

The Notorious History of The Virginia State Penitentiary

98

The British Are Coming: The War for America, 1775–77 (Wilkinson Lecture 2019)

99

The Ghosts of Eden Park

100

Searching For Black Confederates: The Civil War's Most Persistent Myth

101

Keep on Keeping On

102

Play Ball! America's Doughboys and the National Pastime in the Great War

103

Thurgood Marshall: A Life in American History

104

Virginia Waterways and The Underground Railroad

105

The Life and Times of Henry Stuart Foote (Chauncey Lecture 2019)

106

The Jamestown Brides

107

Scottish Stone Masons and Virginia Stone

108

Daniel Morgan, Virginian

109

FDR and Marshall: The Men Who Saved D-Day (George C. Marshall Foundation Lecture)

110

Native Southerners: The Indigenous People Who Made and Remade the South

111

American Moonshot: JFK & the Great Space Race(Christian Lecture 2019)

112

The Calculus Of Violence: How Americans Fought the Civil War

113

The League Of Wives

114

Jefferson’s Treasure: How Albert Gallatin Saved the New Nation from Debt

115

Hampton Roads Murder and Mayhem: The Darker Side of the Tidewater

116

Breaking The Silence: League Of Wives Panel Discussion

117

Across Time: Robinson House, Its Land and People

118

Tracking Down a Confederate Deserter after Gettysburg

119

Murals Of Richmond Artist Panel

120

Pocahontas Symposium: Session 3

121

Pocahontas Symposium: Session 2

122

Pocahontas Symposium: Session 1

123

Rampage: MacArthur, Yamashita, and the Battle Of Manila

124

1619: Jamestown and the Forging Of American Democracy

125

Without Precedent: The Invention of Chief Justice John Marshall

126

The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s

127

The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History

128

Virginian Honor: The Ethics of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson

129

“A Perfect Hell of Blood”: The Battle of the Crater

130

"Keep It a Holy Thing": Lee Chapel’s Greatest Challenge

131

From Richmond to France: Images and Stories of Richmond and Her World War I Soldiers

132

Farm to Easel: Queena Stovall’s Evolution as an Artist

133

Authentic Revolutionaries

134

Best Seat In The House

135

Churchill's Legacy: Two Speeches to Save the World

136

The Diamond - Miracle on the Boulevard

137

Supreme Injustice: Slavery in the Nation’s Highest Court

138

Letters To A Soviet Prison

139

The Jemima Code

140

Dolley Madison and the Politics of Gracious Hospitality

141

Haven of Safety: The Kaiser’s Courteous Pirates in Hampton Roads

142

When Every Second Counted: A Reflection on the Race to Transplant the First Human Heart

143

Lord Dunmore's War: Last Indian Conflict of the Colonial Era

144

Mark Twain, FFV? America’s Most Beloved Author and the Old Dominion

145

Doing Their Bit: The Surprising Role of Virginians in the Great War

146

WW1 America Curator Talk with Brian Horrigan

147

Our Little Monitor: The Greatest Invention of the Civil War

148

Toxic Dust: The History and Legacy of Virginia’s Kepone Disaster

149

Shockoe Hill Cemetery: A Richmond Landmark's History

150

Richmond’s Gilded Age: The Grit Behind the Glitz

151

Stonewall Jackson’s Little Sorrel

152

Patrick Henry: Champion of Liberty

153

The Extremes of Virginia: Two Commonwealths, Separated and Unequal

154

Jamestown, the Truth Revealed (Chauncey Lecture 2018)

155

The Dooleys of Richmond

156

The Paradox of Robert Edward Lee

157

Feuding Founders: Battling and Backstabbing in Early America

158

Dreams of War and Peace: How Americans Experienced the Civil War in Their Sleep

159

The Best Rebel Reminiscence: Edward Porter Alexander’s

160

All Falling Faiths: Reflections on the Promise and Failure of the 1960s

161

A Saga of the New South: Race, Law, and Public Debt in Virginia

162

Lonely Colonist Seeks Wife

163

Airship ROMA: A Forgotten Tragedy

164

Six Encounters with Lincoln: A President Confronts Democracy and Its Demons

165

Historic Disasters of Richmond

166

The Private Jefferson: Most Blessed of the Patriarchs

167

Documents and Drawings: The Private Jefferson Examined

168

Horns, Masks, and Women's Dress: How the First Klan Used Costume to Build Domestic Terrorism

169

Thomas Jefferson, Revered and Reviled

170

Revolt and Repression: Reconsidering the Nat Turner Slave Revolt

171

On the Back Roads Again: More People, Places, and Pie Around Virginia

172

Race, Reconstruction, and Memory in Postwar Richmond

173

The Mathews Men: Seven Brothers and the War Against Hitler’s U-Boats

174

The Paradoxical Emancipator: Abraham Lincoln and the Other Thirteenth Amendment

175

The Well-Dressed Hobo: The Many Wondrous Adventures of a Man Who Loves Trains

176

Last Chance for Peace: Virginia's Role in the Washington Peace Conference of 1861

177

Realistic Visionary: The Presidency of George Washington

178

Woodrow Wilson: The Virginia Factor

179

Patsy Cline and the Problem of Respectability

180

The Cultural Worlds of Patsy Cline's Winchester

181

Patsy Cline and a Changing South

182

Backstory with the History Guys Paying Up: The History of Taxation

183

Notes from the Ground: Science, Soil, & Society in the American Countryside

184

Managing the Mountains: Land Use Planning, New Deal, & Creation of Federal Landscape in Appalachia

185

Eco-History of the Tidewater: The Long View

186

Message, Money, and Management: A Roundtable Discussion on the Future of the Chesapeake Bay

187

A Chat with Willie and Woody

188

The Roads from War to Reconstruction and Beyond

189

Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America

190

First Dads: Parenting and Politics from George Washington to Barack Obama

191

The Civil War's Most Valuable Diarist

192

Thunder and Flames: American Doughboys at War, 1917–1918

193

Kill Jeff Davis: The Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid on Richmond in 1864

194

The Bedford Boys (2016 Christian Lecture)

195

Richmond and the American Dream: Revolution and Reality

196

From Cotton Fields to Skyscrapers

197

Moses Ezekiel: Civil War Soldier, Renowned Sculptor

198

Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson

199

Lincoln: President Elect

200

Matthew Fontaine Maury: The Last Crusade

201

George Washington’s Journey: The President Forges a New Nation

202

The Cherokee Diaspora: A History of Migration, Survival, and Pride

203

Champion of War, Champion of Peace: The Leadership of George C. Marshall

204

Weird-but-True Things Most People Don't Know about the Roaring Twenties

205

Unionists in Virginia: Politics, Secession, and Their Plan to Prevent Civil War

206

God’s Acre: Why African American Cemeteries Matter

207

Magna Carta: 800 Years since Runnymede

208

William Cabell Rives: A Country to Serve

209

She Can Bring Us Home: Dr. Dorothy Boulding Ferebee, Civil Rights Pioneer

210

The Quest for Loving: Race, Sex, and the Freedom to Marry

211

What So Proudly We Hailed: Francis Scott Key, A Life

212

A Native Son Comes Home: The Life and Legacy of Arthur Ashe

213

The History Crisis in America: Myth and Reality

214

The Bartlett Book of Garden Elements

215

Fortune’s Fool: The Life of John Wilkes Booth (Chauncey Lecture 2015)

216

The Poe You May Not Know

217

VEE Oral History Project-Gerald P. McCarthy (3 of 3 interviews)

218

VEE Oral History Project-Gerald P. McCarthy (2 of 3 interviews)

219

VEE Oral History Project-Gerald P. McCarthy (1 of 3 interviews)

220

Leadership and Decision-Making in the D-Day Invasion (Christian Lecture 2015)

221

Capital Dames: The Civil War and the Women of Washington

222

Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson

223

James Madison's Gift: The Power of Partnership

224

Lee's Last War Winter

225

Confederate Alamo: Bloodbath at Petersburg’s Fort Gregg on April 2, 1865

226

What's Wrong with Black Beard?

227

Fellow Travelers on the Road to Black Ned’s Forge

228

Welcome and Introduction

229

Shockoe Valley Topography and the Slave Trade

230

Questions on first two presentations

231

Locating the 1809 Negro Burial Ground

232

From Marshall to Moussaoui: Federal Justice in the Eastern District of Virginia

233

Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery Where War Comes Home

234

A Gunner in Lee's Army: The Civil War Letters of Thomas Henry Carter

235

Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War

236

The Life of Duncan Lee, Red Spy and Cold Warrior

237

Richmond’s Old Stone House and Poe Museum

238

Woodrow Wilson: Across Three Centuries (Wilkinson Lecture 2014)

239

Founders as Fathers: Going Home with Virginia's Revolutionary

240

Defiant: American POWs in Vietnam's Most Infamous Prison

241

Thomas Jefferson’s Enlightenment—Paris, 1785

242

Sheltering Arms: A Legacy of Caring

243

Nature's Civil War: Common Soldiers and the Environment in 1862 Virginia

244

Establishing Religious Freedom: Jefferson's Statute in Virginia

245

From a Richmond Streetcar: Life through the Lens of Harris Stilson

246

Winnie Davis: Daughter of the Lost Cause

247

War Zone: World War II off the North Carolina Coast

248

Lee at Appomattox (Chauncey Lecture 2015)

249

The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire

250

The Spring of 1864: A Season of Hope in the United States and the Confederacy

251

Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of WWII

252

The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832

253

The Grandees of Government: The Origins and Persistence of Undemocratic Politics in Virginia

254

From the Earth: The Environment in Virginia's Past and Future

255

Backstory with the History Guys: Thanksgiving in American History

256

Pistol, Pop, Peanut & Pedro: The Negro League Baseball Experience

257

Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War

258

We Cannot be Tame Spectators: Four Centuries of Virginia Women's History

259

Secretariat

260

The Business of Virginia Has Always Been Business

261

Tobacco, Mosquito, Slave: Colonial Virginia and the Dawn of Globalization

262

Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson

263

History Begins at Home: A Personal Journey

264

Lincoln: President Elect

265

Jefferson in Perspective (Christian Lecture 2014)

266

Historic Virginia Gardens

267

George Marshall, His Men, and the Recovery of Europe

268

On Hallowed Ground: The Story of Arlington National Cemetery

269

Virginia Environmental Endowment: Leadership, Leverage, and Legacy

270

An African Republic: Black and White Virginians in the Making of Liberia

271

The Letters of Oliver and Bernie Hill: The Making of a Legendary Civil Rights Lawyer

272

Take Care of the Living: Reconstructing Confederate Veteran Families

273

Memories of World War II

274

Grand Avenues: The Story of Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the French Visionary

275

The Portent: John Brown's Raid in American Memory

276

Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend

277

"We Shall Not Be Moved": Virginia Songs of Labor

278

Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery

279

The Jeffersons at Shadwell

280

Inventing George Washington: America's Founder in Myth and Memory

281

The Real Lost Cause: The Idea of Union in the Memory of the Civil War

282

The Diary of a Public Man and Abraham Lincoln

283

American City, Southern Place: Richmond on the Eve of War

284

Year of Meteors: Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election

285

The Crooked Road to Civil War, 1861

286

Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit: Plantation Management, 1607–1763

287

Lincoln and McClellan

288

George Washington's America: A Biography Through His Map

289

The Wild Vine: A Forgotten Grape and the Untold Story of American Wine

290

The Virginia Plan: William B. Thalhimer and a Rescue from Nazi Germany

291

The Constitution of Virginia: From Jefferson's Day to Our Own Time

292

The Battle of the Ironclads

293

Facts & Legends of Sports in Richmond

294

The First Thanksgiving

295

Civil War Medicine

296

1861: The Civil War Awakening

297

Virginia's Confederate Monuments

298

Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade

299

When the Sun Stood Still: Reflections on the Rev. John Jasper

300

American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America

301

Before It Was Virginia: Setting the Stage

302

Fighting for America: The Struggle for Mastery in North America, 1519-1871

303

Lost in Shangri-La: A Story of Survival and Rescue during World War II

304

Brown's Battleground in Prince Edward County, Virginia

305

Race to the Top of the World: Richard Byrd and the First Flight to the North Pole

306

George Thomas: Virginian for the Union

307

Telling Our Stories: School Desegregation in Western Virginia

308

The Battle of Hué City, South Vietnam, 1968

309

For Better or For Worse: The Journey of a POW and His Wife

310

Distorted Mirrors: Americans and Their Relations with Russia and China in the Twentieth Century

311

The Struggle with Drugs and Thugs in U.S.-Mexican Relations

312

Hatteras Island: Keeper of the Outer Banks

313

One Nation Under Debt

314

Up from History: The Life of Booker T. Washington

315

Meuse-Argonne, 1918: The Battle That Ended World War I

316

Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath

317

From Cotton Fields to Skyscrapers: The Transformation of the South in the Twentieth Century

318

Louis Brandeis: An American Legal Giant

319

Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through his Private Letters

320

Lee and Grant

321

Who Looks at Lee Must Think of Washington

322

General Lee's Army: From Victory to Collapse

323

Lee and the Historians in the Age of the Anti-Hero

324

Moses Ezekiel: Civil War Soldier, Renowned Sculptor

325

So Ends This Day: An Illustrated Update on the Life and Times of the Monitor, from 1861 to yesterday

326

Hidden Treasures: A Short History of the Mary Custis Lee Trunks

327

Robert E. Lee: Lessons in Leadership

328

Skeletons on the Zahara

329

Sites and Stories: African American History in Virginia

330

Prestwould: Gracious Living on the American Frontier, 1790-1830

331

A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke

332

Flight from Monticello: Thomas Jefferson at War

333

The Ascent of George Washington: The Hidden Political Genius of an American Icon

334

Dolley Madison: A Documentary

335

The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788–1800

336

Jefferson in Perspective

337

The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown: The Sea Venture Castaways and the Fate of America

338

A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke

339

Werowocomoco and Fairfield Plantation: Rediscovering the Forgotten Landscapes of Gloucester County

340

Mapping Virginia: Pictures of a Moving Place, 1587–1783

341

Carillon: The Story of a Richmond Community

342

Family of Assassins: The Surratts of Maryland

343

First House: Two Centuries with Virginia's First Families

344

Contested Borderland: The Civil War in Appalachian Kentucky and Virginia

345

War and Pieces: Quilts through America's War Years

346

Fighting for Freedom: African Americans and the War of 1812

347

Ocracoke: The Pearl of the Outer Banks

348

The Feud: The All-American, No-Holds-Barred, Blood-and-Guts Story of the Hatfields and McCoys

349

Knights of the Golden Circle: Secret Empire, Secession, Civil War

350

The Civil War at a Crossroads: The Seven Days

351

Unlocking Menokin’s Secrets: Archaeological and Landscape Research at a Northern Neck Plantation

352

John Randolph of Roanoke

353

To Bind Up the Nation’s Wounds: An Overview of the Thirteenth Amendment

354

Lost Communities of Virginia

355

The U.S. Marines at Belleau Wood, June 1918

356

More Important Than Gettysburg: The Seven Days Campaign as a Turning Point

357

The Queen and the USA: Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee in America

358

Edward Coles: Crusade Against Slavery

359

A Nation of Deadbeats: An Uncommon History of America's Financial Disasters

360

Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition

361

Good to Great to Gone: The Circuit City Story

362

The Reporter Who Knew Too Much: Harrison Salisbury

363

Winslow Homer's Virginia

364

Booker T. Washington, Julius Rosenwald, and the Building of Schools for the Segregated South

365

The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945

366

Why Washington Burned and How the President Survived: James Madison and the War of 1812

367

Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves

368

Martha Jefferson Randolph, Daughter of Monticello

369

My Father’s Name: A Black Virginia Family after the Civil War

370

The 1811 Richmond Theater Fire

371

Planter Oligarchy on Virginia’s Northern Neck

372

Civil War Lawyers: Constitutional Questions and Courtroom Dramas

373

Cosmic Constitutional Theory: Why Americans Are Losing Their Inalienable Rights to Self-Governance