History

Students at Emory & Henry College have spent the past semester uncovering the names of hundreds of people who were enslaved at the college, before and during the Civil War. They produced a short video, meant as a memorial to those whose stories would otherwise have been written into oblivion.

The Montgomery museum was just awarded a grant by the Virginia Museum of History and Culture to digitize and study information recorded in this store ledger. They’ll use it to create an interactive exhibit, which will focus on the lives of Black people in southwest Virginia.

Ruth D. Hunt will conduct a workshop Saturday at the Gainsboro Branch Library.

A new book about the history of Montgomery County before the Civil War shows what life was like in Blacksburg, long before Virginia Tech was built, when small farms dotted the landscape, and railroads brought travelers to nearby resorts.

Writer Lynn Sutter's award-winning book tracks their history in the late 1940's and early 50's.

A new report out this week from the Equal Justice Initiative tells the full story of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Virginia – and Richmond – play an outsized role in that story.

In the 1900's, the federal government forced thousands of people in Appalachia to leave their land, to make way for national parks and hydro-electric projects. Aaron Purcell is editor of a book called “Lost in Transition," about people in Appalachia who were forced to leave their homes.

Conservators opened up a small lead box found instead the pedestal that held up the Richmond’s removed Robert E Lee Statue Wednesday, finding a coin, books, and a cloth envelope.

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