The allure of skating – gliding free from gravity – is undeniable. Ice skating is so old that historians are unsure when it was even invented. Some believe it existed as early…
Browsing: History
In his short life, Richmond native Clemenceau “Clem” McAdoo Givings found a vocation he was seemingly born for and helped reshape the U.S. Armed Forces. When World War II broke…
This first affair in 1854 was mainly a livestock exhibition hosted by the Virginia State Agricultural Society. The State Fair of Virginia has evolved!
Kristen Green had never heard about the slave jail Devil’s Half Acre in Shockoe Bottom until she was on an assignment for the Richmond Times-Dispatch. What she subsequently learned about…
Fifteen years before Rosa Parks sparked the modern Civil Rights movement, a young Black lawyer opened a law practice in Richmond. Born in this city in 1907, Oliver Hill had grown…
Leslie Klein didn’t know that learning how to sew at the age of sixteen would one day lead to a successful art career, one that would turn her sewing expertise…
In 1886, the Shriners – also known as the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine – established a Richmond chapter called Acca Temple. A secret society…
Richmond, Virginia is home to one of the preeminent art museums in the nation. Explore all VMFA has to offer its visitors.
After World War II, the federal GI Bill prompted a vast suburban expansion across the nation. Here in our region, cheap, subsidized tract housing lured many white Richmonders from the…
After seizing power in Germany in 1933, the Nazis instituted a slew of anti-Jewish decrees designed to remove Jews from economic and social life. By 1935, with the passage of…
Jay Grymes was first introduced to the Violins of Hope when he helped coordinate the exhibit’s visit to Charlotte, North Carolina in 2012. The touring exhibit tells the remarkable stories…
The Virginia Constitution of 1869 established a statewide system of free public schools. The schools evolved in the 1900s with both Jim Crow restrictions and Progressive Era reforms. Even progressive movements, though, were rife with racism, and Black activists rarely had a…
