Pocahontas Was Married Right Here!
A news report over the holiday tells us that William Kelso, the archaeologist who discovered the fort at Jamestown and wrote about it in Jamestown: The Buried Truth (2008), is… Read More»
Tag: Around the State
The Crater on PBS
The Battle of the Crater will be examined on a PBS series: The tunnel that Union soldiers dug to blow a crater under Confederate defenses at Petersburg, Va., is not… Read More»
Admiring Lee for Who He Was
In the wake of Virginia governor Bob McDonnell’s declaration of Confederate History Month and all the resulting hoopla, Ta-Nehisi Coates considers the memory of Robert E. Lee. In so doing,… Read More»
Cather Birthplace for Sale
Willa Cather‘s birthplace, a tw0-story log house on Back Creek near Winchester, is for sale. In 1950, Charles Brill’s parents bought the house, and he spent most of his life… Read More»
From Virginia to Russia, with Love
Now showing at the Virginia Historical Society: Cold War Crisis: The U-2 Incident / January 16–May 30, 2010 On May 1, 1960, an American U-2 reconnaissance plane was shot down… Read More»
Sick of Goodbyes
Mark Linkous, whose nom de music, as it were, was Sparklehorse, died over the weekend. The Arlington native is remembered in the New York Times: But disillusioned with the music… Read More»
Into the Wilderness
Ta-Nehisi Coates of the Atlantic writes about a trip to Virginia this past summer to visit Civil War battlefields: I pulled our rental car to the side of the road,… Read More»
EV & Discovering America
The wonderful, statewide, VFH-sponsored radio program With Good Reason featured Encyclopedia Virginia‘s managing editor Matthew Gibson and one of our section editors, Dr. John Kneebone, on a recent broadcast. Listen… Read More»
Tackling Mount Malady
Tony Field, producer of the VFH radio program BackStory, reminds us that the show’s new episode on health care will air tonight: BackStory‘s latest episode, “Body Politics: A History of… Read More»
Remembering Mike Seeger
Mike Seeger, the folk singer, instrumentalist, and folklorist, died in Lexington on Friday. He was 75. The New York Times has an excellent obituary, which includes this, from Bob Dylan:… Read More»
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