Past Events

• Booker T. Washington, Julius Rosenwald, and the Building of Schools for the Segregated South (Words)

  • Thu., May 16, 12 p.m. 2013

• Winslow Homer's Virginia (Words)

  • Thu., April 18, 12 p.m. 2013

• Civil War and Emancipation Day (Events)

  • Sat., April 6 2013

• Why Washington Burned and How the President Survived: James Madison and the War of 1812 (Words)

  • Thu., March 7, 12 p.m. 2013

• Fox Art Auction (Events)

  • Sat., Feb. 23, 6-10 p.m. 2013

• Virginia Historical Society (Galleries)

  • April 23-Feb. 11 2013

• VCU Southern Film Festival: The Making of "Lincoln" (Film)

  • Sat., Feb. 9 2013

• Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves (Words)

  • Thu., Feb. 7, 12 p.m. 2013

• User Pick

  My Father's Name: a Black Virginia Family after the Civil War (Words)

  • Thu., Jan. 31, 12 p.m. 2013

• Virginia Historical Society (Galleries)

  • Dec. 19-Jan. 28 2013

• Martha Jefferson Randolph, Daughter of Monticello (Words)

  • Thu., Jan. 17, 12 p.m. 2013

• Virginia Historical Society (Galleries)

  • July 6-Jan. 7 2013

• The 1811 Richmond Theater Fire (Words)

  • Thu., Dec. 6, 12 p.m. 2012

• Good to Great to Gone: the Circuit City Story (Words)

  • Thu., Nov. 29, 12 p.m. 2012

• A Nation of Deadbeats: an Uncommon History of America's Financial Disasters (Words)

  • Thu., Nov. 8, 12 p.m. 2012

• Unlocking Menokin's Secrets: Archaeological and Landscape Research at a Northern Neck Plantation (Words)

  • Thu., Oct. 25, 12 p.m. 2012

• Planter Oligarchy on Virginia's Northern Neck (Words)

  • Thu., Oct. 4, 12 p.m. 2012

• Virginia Historical Society (Galleries)

  • March 12-Sept. 22 2012

• Civil War Lawyers: Constitutional Questions and Courtroom Dramas (Words)

  • Thu., Sept. 13, 12 p.m. 2012

• Cosmic Constitutional Theory: Why Americans Are Losing Their Inalienable Rights to Self-Governance (Words)

  • Thu., Sept. 6, 12 p.m. 2012

• Date Night Richmond (Stage)

  • Sat., Aug. 18, 6:30 p.m. 2012

• Pistol, Pop, Peanut & Pedro: The Negro League Baseball Experience (Events)

  • Sat., Aug. 11, 10:30 a.m. 2012

• Virginia Historical Society (Galleries)

  • Feb. 20-Aug. 6 2012

• Edward Coles: Crusade Against Slavery (Words)

  • Thu., Aug. 2, 12 p.m. 2012

• The Queen and the U.S.A.: Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee in America (Words)

  • Thu., July 26, 12 p.m. 2012

• Free Family Day Open House (Events)

  • Sat., July 21, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 2012

• Venture Forum presents "Break Out Marketing Strategies for Startups" (Words)

  • Thu., July 19, 11 a.m. 2012

• More Important Than Gettysburg: the Seven Days Campaign as a Turning Point (Words)

  • Wed., July 11, 5:30 p.m. 2012

• John Randolph of Roanoke (Words)

  • Thu., June 28, 12 p.m. 2012

• The Civil War at a Crossroads: the Seven Days (Words)

  • Tue., June 19, 5:30 p.m. 2012

• Richmond.com Uncorked Wine Festival (Events)

  • Sat., June 16, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. 2012

• The U.S. Marines at Belleau Wood, June 1918 (Words)

  • Thu., June 14, 12 p.m. 2012

• With a Collector's Eye: an Institute on Southern Furniture (Words)

  • Sat., May 19, 3 p.m. 2012

• Lost Communities of Virginia (Words)

  • Thu., May 3, 12 p.m. 2012

• 2012 Virginia Entrepreneur Summit (Words)

  • Tue., April 24, 7:30 a.m.-3 p.m. 2012

• Virginia Historical Society (Galleries)

  • April 14-15 2012

• Brown’s Battleground in Prince Edward County, Virginia (Words)

  • Thu., April 12, 12 p.m. 2012

• An Evening with Jorge Silvetti (Words)

  • Mon., April 9, 6 p.m. 2012

• An Evening with Garth Stein (Words)

  • Wed., April 4, 6 p.m. 2012

• Fighting for America: the Struggle for Mastery in North America, 1519-1871 (Words)

  • Wed., March 28, 12 p.m. 2012

• From the Earth: the Environment in Virginia's Past and Future (Words)

  • Fri., March 16, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. 2012

• "American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America" (Words)

  • Thu., March 15, 12 p.m. 2012

• When the Sun Stood Still: Reflections on the Reverend John Jasper (Words)

  • Thu., Feb. 23, 12 p.m. 2012

• The Elbys (Events)

  • Sun., Feb. 12, 6 p.m. 2012

• "Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade" (Words)

  • Thu., Jan. 26, 12 p.m. 2012

• Virginia Historical Society (Galleries)

  • April 1-Dec. 30 2011

• Stories at the Museum - Americans through Time (Words)

  • Wed., Dec. 7, 4 p.m. and Wed., Dec. 14, 4 p.m. 2011

• Behind the Scenes Tour - All I Want for Christmas (Events)

  • Tue., Dec. 13, 10:30 a.m. 2011

• "Virginia's Confederate Monuments" (Words)

  • Thu., Dec. 8, 12 p.m. 2011

• Gallery Walk: "The Civil War in Virginia: Did the Civil War End at Appomattox?" (Events)

  • Wed., Dec. 7, 12 p.m. 2011