By Staff Reports on 29 January 2010
Slate tablet one of the most significant artifacts found American soil.
Posted in Feature, News, Things | Tagged Historic Jamestowne, Preservation Trust
By Staff Reports on 27 January 2010
Full text of markers included…one honors June Carter Cash.
Posted in Feature, News, Things | Tagged Department of Historic Resources
By Staff Reports on 21 October 2009
[ 24 October 2009; 10:00 am to 3:00 pm. ] Visitors have one day to view this document at VHS.
Posted in Calendar, News, Things | Tagged Declaration of Independence, Virginia Historical Society
By Staff Reports on 21 September 2009
[ 24 September 2009; 10:00 am; ] On Thursday, September 24, an original Alexander Hamilton document is set to be unveiled and transferred from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to the National Archives.
Posted in Calendar, Events, Things | Tagged Alexander Hamilton, Whiskey Rebellion
By Staff Reports on 19 September 2009
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) recently awarded the Virginia Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission $950,000 to support its efforts to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War. The Commission, in partnership with the Virginia Historical Society (VHS), will use the funding to execute An American Turning Point: The Civil War in Virginia, a four-part, multi-year educational resource for the nation. The Commission is only the third organization to receive the NEH Chairman’s Special Award since its inception in 2006.
Posted in News, Things | Tagged Civil War, Virginia Historical Society, Virginia Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission
By Staff Reports on 27 August 2009
[ 19 September 2009; 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm. ] How do museums know the history of their artifacts? How can you tell if your old documents and antiques are important or not? And how do you take care of that “old stuff”? Learn to identify and care for historic artifacts, while also learning a bit about how museum collections are researched and preserved in a seminar offered by the Museum of the Confederacy on Saturday, September 19, 2009 from 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. at Baines Books in Appomattox.
Posted in Calendar, Things | Tagged Baines Books, Museum of the Confederacy
By Suzanne Ramsey on 5 August 2009
Artifacts from Tusculum, ancestral home of the mother of Sweet Briar College founder Indiana Fletcher Williams, will be on display this fall in Benedict Gallery. The exhibit, “Everyday Life at Tusculum,” will open Thursday, Aug. 20 and will run through Sunday, Nov. 15. Admission is free.
Posted in Events, Feature, Places, Things | Tagged Amherst County, Indiana Fletcher Williams, Sweet Briar College, Tusculum Institute
By Staff Reports on 5 May 2009
The Museum of the Confederacy is pleased to announce that Joseph T. Glatthaar’s General Lee’s Army: From Victory to Collapse, published by Free Press, and Charles W. Mitchell’s Maryland Voices of the Civil War, published by The Johns Hopkins University Press, are the recipients of its 39th annual Book Awards competition.
Posted in Things | Tagged Civil War, General Lee, Jefferson Davis Award, Museum of the Confederacy
By Staff Reports on 20 April 2009
The Virginia Historical Society (VHS), with financial assistance from the Gay Community Center of Richmond (GCCR), recently completed processing materials from three archival collections related to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) topics, such as activism, institutional and local history, civic issues, and social life and customs of the gay community.
Posted in News, Things | Tagged Gay Lesbian and Bisexual, Gay community, LGBT, LGBT social movements, Virginia Historical Society
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