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… Huntington Library, American Historical Association, and Virginia Historical Society, among others. “Only Murder Makes … Historical Society in 1990, and America’s Reconstruction: People and Politics After the Civil War, which opened at the … Nations, Empires: A History of the United States and the People Who Made It (to be published by Bedford/St. Martin’s …

… Durand”. Selections from the Journal of Robert Durand The Virginia Center for Digital History’s website contains …

… and Alan Taylor for The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772–1832 (W. W. Norton).   This year’s finalists … emerge are the voices of highly individualized enslaved people as they negotiate intersecting networks of labor, …

… Republic, the Society of Civil War Historians, and the Virginia Forum. Fellowships from the William L. Clements Library, the Virginia Historical Society, the UNC Center for the Study of …

… grew dramatically, as Irish immigrants and young people from the  surrounding rural communities moved to the … Historical Census Data Browser, at  http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus/ Activities Digging …

… The Valley of the Shadow  http://valley.lib.virginia.edu   Voices from the Archive  …

… History, UCLA) The purchase of 20 Africans at Jamestown, Virginia during 1619 occurred weeks before the first meeting of the Virginia House of Assembly. The 400th anniversary of the …

… learn of the origin, growth, and development of a race of people; their customs, religions, laws, governments; their … As in New England, so throughout the Colonies. The Virginia Cavalier was not less hostile to the Irish than the … across the state line, lest they should drive out the people of the older colony. As long as that state shall last …

… “fundamentally changed the way that slavery was studied. [People began to] have questions about it, what it was, what … War.” As the generations that witnessed slavery dwindled, “people began to answer these questions through research, in a … Barton Rogers, who bought enslaved people when teaching in Virginia during the antebellum period. The most notable …

… of Friends…) From the Irish Relief Committee, Richmond, Virginia Introduction (Transactions of the… of the Society of …