Two floors of exhibits will take you on a journey from the very beginning of the Civil War to Reconstruction and beyond. Located in downtown Richmond on the James River, the museum sits on the site of the Tredegar Iron Works. Cannons made at Tredegar fired the first shots of the Civil ...
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Opening in 2000, The American Civil War Center at Tredegar is the nation’s first museum to interpret the Civil War from Union, Confederate and African American perspectives. As with many nonprofit museums, ACWC needed an annual report that could hold its own against larger organizations, but ...
“No, sir,” I said, and in less than thirty days I had enlisted; and three years from the date of the first battle of Bull Run I was skirmishing about six miles from Richmond—three years—and yet I hadn’t quite got to Richmond. That Bull-Run musket is the only war weapon left...
49. "The Image of the Emancipation Proclamation in Art and Memory," in Race, Slavery and the Civil War: The Tough Stuff of American History and Memory. Richmond: Virginia Sesquicentennial Commission of the Civil War Commission, 2011. 50. "Abraham Lincoln," entry in The Encyclopedia of New ...
“emergency annex” was erected in an African American parochial school. In Richmond, VA, African American patients received care in a hospital basement while the only African American facility in Baltimore, MD, was criticized for turning patients away. Therefore, many infected people died without ...
3030 Richmond Rd I-64 at Exit #234, Route 199 East to US Highway 60 East, Williamsburg, VA 23185-2001 12.6 miles from American Revolution Museum at Yorktown "I remember my dad telling me you get what you pay for and paying $60.00 a night I got one large room a badl...
Contraband camp, Richmond, Va, 1865. The Camp of the Contrabands on the Banks of the Mississippi, Fort Pickering, Memphis, Tenn, 1862. Courtesy American Antiquarian Society. Fugitives posed a dilemma for the Union military. Soldiers were forbidden to interfere with slavery or assist runaways, ...
Paul Richmond, from his War Paint series. Posted by Terence Winch on January 26, 2025 at 10:40 AM in Feature, Pick of the Week, Terence Winch | Permalink | Comments (17) January 19, 2025 Shelley Wong: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch] ___ When We Were Young I was a mont...
Sociology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA Victor Tan Chen Guidehouse, McLean, VA, USA Timothy Beryl Bland Corresponding author Correspondence toVictor Tan Chen. Editor information Editors and Affiliations Educational Research Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia ...