By Staff Reports on 28 April 2010
126 B&W photographic prints from WWII on exhibit.
Posted in Feature | Tagged The Associated Press, Virginia Historical Society, World War II
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 23 October 2009
[ 15 November 2009; 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] VHS offers a look at high school cadets and military programs.
Posted in Calendar, Feature | Tagged John Marshall High School, Virginia Historical Society
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 25 September 2009
[ 10 October 2009 to 11 April 2010. ] VHA presents The Portent: John Brown’s Raid in American Memory.
Posted in Calendar, Feature | Tagged John Brown, Virginia Historical Society
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 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
By Staff Reports on 16 January 2009
In the words of Virginia Historical Society (VHS) Board of Trustees Chairman J. Stewart Bryan, III, November 19, 2008, was a bittersweet day – President and CEO Dr. Charles F. Bryan, Jr., was retiring after twenty years of leading the society.
Posted in News | Tagged VHS, Virginia Historical Society
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