Curator's Blog
The curators of An American Turning Point will post regular updates on exhibition events.
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About the Curators
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Dr. William M. S. Rasmussen is Lead Curator and Lora M. Robins Curator at the Virginia Historical Society.
Dr. Rasmussen's publications include co-authorship of eight books that have served as exhibition catalogues: The Making of Virginia Architecture (Richmond, 1992), recipient of the Society of Architectural Historians' Architectural History Catalogue Award; Pocahontas: Her Life and Legend (Richmond, 1994), George Washington: The Man Behind the Myths (Charlottesville, 1999), recipient of the Award of Merit from the American Association for State and Local History; The Virginia Landscape: A Cultural History (Richmond, 2002); Lost Virginia: Vanished Architecture of the Old Dominion (Richmond, 2001); Old Virginia: The Pursuit of a Pastoral Ideal (Richmond, 2003), Lee and Grant (London, 2007), and The Portent: John Brown's Raid in American Memory (Richmond, 2009). He is a graduate of Washington and Lee University and holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Delaware. Read the blog
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Andrew Talkov is Exhibit Coordinator for Virginia's Civil War
Andrew H. Talkov was raised in the suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts, where he began a lifelong appreciation for history. He received his B.A. in history and secondary education from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. While a student, Andrew found an outlet for his interest in the American Civil War as a seasonal park ranger at Gettysburg National Military Park and Manassas National Battlefield Park. In 1996, he began a professional museum career as blacksmith and millwright at Old Sturbridge Village in Sturbridge, Massachusetts. Returning to Virginia in 2000, he served as a senior staff member at Pamplin Historical Park & The National Museum of the Civil War Soldier in Petersburg until the fall of 2007. In November of that year Andrew accepted his current position at the Virginia Historical Society and is currently pursuing a master's degree in history at Virginia Commonwealth University. Read the blog
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