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Teachers Guide: The Story of Virginia, an American Experience
A teaching guide to our award-winning exhibition, The Story of Virginia, is available online. Included are 7 sections that trace Virginia history from prehistoric times to the present with text, classroom activities, and exhibition images. View the guide

Linking to Our Past: Documenting the African American Experience in Virginia
The VHS received a grant from The Links Foundation, Inc., to present online items from the Society's collections that pertain to African American history. Items include letters, diaries, broadsides, telegrams, government documents, paintings, prints, museum objects, and ephemera. Visit the site

Teaching Materials: Lee and Grant
Gallery activities for the new exhibition, Lee and Grant, will help guide students through the four sections of the exhibition.
View the Online exhibition  |  Gallery activities [PDF - 212 k  Adobe Acrobat required]

Teachers Guide: American Visions of Liberty and Freedom
Designed for teachers, this guide explores the central themes of the exhibition, American Visions of Liberty and Freedom. It contains curriculum outlines, classroom activities, and more than 80 iconic images. Learn more

E. Claiborne Robins, Jr., Teachers Institute
This summer program will immerse a group of selected teachers in an intensive one-week study of Native American culture before the contact with European powers.This year's institute will be held July 7–11 and will take a multi-disciplinary approach in exploring Native American societies. Learn more

Conserving the Robert Dinwiddie Papers
In the early 1880s, the VHS received an extraordinary collection of manuscript items relating to the service of Robert Dinwiddie as lieutenant-governor of Virginia. Learn more about the conservation of these papers by viewing a timeline of steps taken to save these important documents. Learn more