Traveling exhibitions
 Lee and Grant
Travel dates:
• April 06, 2009–May 25, 2009 at the Kenosha Public Museum, Kenosha, Wisconsin
• June 16, 2009–August 11, 2009 at the Old Red Museum, Dallas, Texas
• September 01, 2009–October 20, 2009 at the Schumacher Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
• November 10, 2009–January 07, 2010 at the MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History, Little Rock, Arkansas
• January 28, 2010–March 16, 2010 at the Texarkana Regional Arts and Humanities Council, Inc.. Texarkana, Texas
• April 06, 2010–May 25, 2010 at the Barrington Area Historical Museum, Barrington, Illinois
• June 16, 2010–August 11, 2009 (On hold) Chadron, Nebraska
• September 01, 2010–October 20, 2010 at the Powers Museum, Carthage, Missouri
• November 10, 2010–January 07, 2011 at the Bell County Museum, Belton, Texas
• January 28, 2011–March 16, 2011 (On hold) Port Allen, Louisiana
The exhibition explores the boyhoods of Civil War Generals Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant, their West Point careers, their early assignments and family lives, their service in the Mexican War and on the nation's frontiers, their Civil War campaigns, and their postwar contributions to national reconciliation. Actual uniforms and accouterments owned by the generals are displayed to suggest the presence of Lee and of Grant as contemporaries knew them. Letters and other written records, and visual images—paintings, photographs, prints, and sculpture—are presented to allow a glimpse of each man as he understood himself and his place in the world.
What's related:
• Press release |
Exhibition catalog |
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 Sites and Stories: African American History in Virginia
Travel dates:
Manassas Museum: January 31, 2010–May 31, 2010
This exhibition tells stories about people and events related to African American historical sites listed in the Department of Historic Resource's Guidebook to Virginia's Historical Markers (2007). Photographs and objects illustrate more than twenty stories from across the commonwealth. The exhibition hopes to encourage visitors to travel to the physical sites of the historical markers, such as Farmville, Brunswick County, Albemarle, Dutch Gap (pictured), and Norfolk.
What's related:
• Press release | Banner Lecture online
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