By admin on 2 February 2010
[ 15 March 2010; ] The award is co-sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute, Preserve America, and the History Channel.
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By Staff Reports on 1 February 2010
New trustees will serve from 2010 to 2015.
Posted in Feature, News, People | Tagged VHS, Virginia Historical Society
By Staff Reports on 13 January 2010
[ 16 January 2010; ] New exhibit focuses on Francis Gary Powers.
Posted in Calendar, Feature, News, People | Tagged Francis Gary Powers, Virginia Historical Society
By Staff Reports on 21 November 2009
[ 24 November 2009; 10:00 am; ] Presidential $1 Coin honoring Zachary Taylor available Tuesday.
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By Staff Reports on 22 October 2009
Governor Timothy M. Kaine submitted the following statement for the record to the United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs.
Posted in News, People | Tagged Indian Tribes of Virginia Federal Recognition Act of 2009, Jim Webb, Tim Kaine
By Staff Reports on 8 October 2009
97-year-old James Brown’s father was wounded at Appomattox.
Posted in News, People | Tagged Appomattox, Battle of Franklin, Gettysburg, Shiloh
By Staff Reports on 25 August 2009
[ 3 October 2009; 3:00 pm; ] Celebrate Thomas Jefferson’s retirement and return to his beloved Virginia. Join with your friends for an afternoon with the Richmond Symphony on the lawn at Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest. 2009 is the 200th anniversary of Jefferson’s retirement from public life. In 1809, he began to spend time at his secluded retreat home, Poplar Forest.
Posted in Calendar, News, People | Tagged Poplar Forest, Richmond Symphony, Thomas Jefferson
By Staff Reports on 18 August 2009
Since 1996, the Gilder Lehrman Institute has presented eminent historians discussing major topics in American history. Now you can hear these great historians on your computer, iPod, or other portable media player.
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By Staff Reports on 17 June 2009
[ 20 June 2009; 11:00 am to 12:00 pm. ] On Saturday, June 20, at 11 a.m. the Taylor-Wilson Camp #10 and Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War will dedicate a monument in honor of the young private who won the Congressional Medal for valor and to the memory of the 12 men who died on ground which would become the Lynchburg College campus.
Posted in Calendar, Events, People, Places | Tagged Civil War, Lynchburg College, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, Union Army
By Staff Reports on 20 April 2009
A new historical highway marker issued by the Department of Historic Resources that commemorates Mowhemcho, a Monacan Indian town that was destroyed by colonists, then later settled by French Huguenots and renamed Manakin, will be dedicated Sunday, April 26.
The public ceremony to unveil the marker will begin at 3 p.m., at Manakin Episcopal Church, 985 [...]
Posted in News, People | Tagged Huguenot, James River, John Lederer, Monacan
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