Planning a trip to UVA’s Alderman Library, the Latane Papers
A Guide to the Latane Family Papers Accession number 6490 A Collection in the Special Collections Department Contact Information: University …
Category Archives: War
Touring the Internet battlefields
It is astonishing how deeply divided those who argue about the root cause(s) of the Civil War continue to be. …
Touring the Internet battlefields
It is astonishing how deeply divided those who argue about the root cause(s) of the Civil War continue to be. …
Toni Morrison explores 17th Century Virginia
2008: Novelist John Updike, in a perceptive New Yorker review of Toni Morrison’s novel “A Mercy” (2008), praises it for its ability to …
The Day the Flag Went Up in Modern South Carolina
On the one hundredth anniversary of the shots fired at Fort Sumter, the nation saw a bizarre real-life reenactment of …
Richmond Times Dispatch on Nathaniel Bacon
On Dec. 30, 1934, the Richmond Times-Dispatch ran the following article: Nathaniel Bacon – Rebel “Patriot” Last Resting Place of …
Colonial Dames decide Bacon needs to be in the House
1916: A plaque to honor Nathaniel Bacon, who “believed in governing by the consent of the people,” was placed behind the …
“At the mercy of the lawless and vicious”: Richmond under Reconstruction
1908, December 9: The Richmond Bar Association heard a powerful depiction of Reconstruction and its ills, in a speech by a Virginian who epitomized …
Postscript to the Capitol Disaster: Court rules that Richmond can govern itself
From the Virginia Historical Society’s Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, “The Capitol Disaster” (Vol. 68, No. 2, April, 1960, pp. …
“Oh God what a day of horror, blood, and death it has been” – An eyewitness account of the Capitol Disaster
The text below is reprinted from the Virginia Historical Society’s Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, “The Capitol Disaster: A Letter …
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