2011 Lectures and Classes
Lectures
Stuart G. Christian, Jr., Trustees Lecture
Robert Edsel, "The Monuments Men"
May 5
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Past Christian Lectures
Hazel and Fulton Chauncey Lecture
John V. Quarstein, "The Battle of the Ironclads"
September 21
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J. Harvie Wilkinson, Jr., Lecture
H. W. Brands, "The Triumph of American Capitalism"
October 6
Past Wilkinson Lectures
Alexander W. Weddell Trustees Lecture
Tony Horwitz, "Midnight Rising: John Brown, Harpers Ferry, and the Start of the Civil War"
November 16
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Past Weddell Lectures
Banner Lectures Series
Susan Kern
"The Jeffersons at Shadwell"
January 13
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Edward G. Lengel
"Inventing George Washington: America's Founder in Myth and Memory"
February 24
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Daniel Crofts
"'The Diary of a Public Man' and Abraham Lincoln"
March 3
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Gregg Kimball
"American City, Southern Place: Richmond on the Eve of War"
March 9 and 10
Cosponsored with Richmond National Battlefield Park
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Douglas R. Egerton
"Year of Meteors: Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election that Brought on the Civil War"
March 24
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Nelson D. Lankford
"The Crooked Road to Civil War"
April 13 and 14
Cosponsored with the Richmond National Battlefield Park
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Lorena Walsh
"Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit: Plantation Management in the Colonial Chesapeake, 1607–1763"
April 21
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John C. Waugh
"Lincoln and McClellan"
May 12
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Barnet Schecter
"George Washington's America"
June 9
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Todd Kliman
"The Wild Vine: A Forgotten Grape and the Untold Story of American Wine"
June 30
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Brooks Smith and Wayne Dementi
"Facts and Legends of Sports in Richmond"
July 14
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Robert H. Gillette
"The Virginia Plan: William B. Thalhimer and a Rescue from Nazi Germany"
August 4
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A. E. Dick Howard
"The Constitution of Virginia"
September 8
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Graham Woodlief and Barbara Ramos
"The First Thanksgiving"
October 13
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Dr. Adrian Wheat
"Civil War Medicine"
October 26 and 27
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Adam Goodheart
"1861: The Civil War Awakening"
November 30
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Timothy Sedore
"An Illustrated Guide to Virginia's Confederate Monuments"
December 8
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Gallery Talks
William M. S. Rasmussen
"The Story of Virginia: The Antebellum Era"
January 26
William M. S. Rasmussen
"An American Turning Point: The Civil War in Virginia"
February 9
Lauranett L. Lee
"Who Freed the Slaves?"
February 23
Lauranett L. Lee
"The Civil War in Virginia: Women's Lives"
March 23
Andrew H. Talkov
"The Civil War in Virginia: The Battlefront"
April 6
Chris Van Tassell
"The Story of Virginia: Contributions of the Founding Fathers"
April 20
William M. S. Rasmussen
"The Story of Virginia: Winds of Change—The First Half of the Twentieth Century"
May 4
Lauranett L. Lee
"The Story of Virginia: The Civil Rights Movement"
May 19
Lauranett L. Lee
"The Civil War in Virginia: The Role of African Americans"
June 15
William M. S. Rasmussen
"The Civil War in Virginia: The Home Front"
July 13
Andrew H. Talkov
"The Civil War in Virginia: Why the Battle of Kernstown?"
August 3
Lauranett L. Lee
"The Civil War in Virginia: The Emancipation Proclamation"
September 28
William M. S. Rasmussen
"The Story of Virginia: Reconstruction and Recovery"
October 12
Rebecca A. Rose
"The Civil War in Virginia: Battle Flags"
October 19
William M. S. Rasmussen
"Art in The Story of Virginia"
November 9
Paul A. Levengood
"The Civil War in Virginia: Did the Civil War End at Appamattox?"
December 7
See You in Class
Brig. Gen. John W. Mountcastle (USA, Ret.)
"The Nation Explodes . . . and War Begins in 1861"
March 3 and 10
Edward G. Lengel
"Myths about George Washington"
March 24 and 31
Mark Valeri
"Religion in Virginia through the Antebellum Era"
May 19
A. E. Dick Howard
"The Idea of a Constitution"
September 15 and 22
VHS Staff
"Unknown No Longer: Workshop on Using the New VHS Slave Name Database"
September 29
Robert P. Winthrop
"Architecture in Detail: Identifying Architectural Styles"
October 13, 20, and 27
Patrick Mooney
"History of the U.S. Marine Corps"
November 3, 10, and 17
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