Video
Many of the videos listed below were produced by VHS staff to enhance this online exhibit. Please check back as we will be adding more videos to this site.
Becoming A Homeplace
Clovis Point
This video shows how to make a stone spear point.
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Contact and Conflict
John Smith
In this video, Lee Shepard discusses Smith's "The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England, and the
Summer Isles."
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Becoming Americans
George Washington
In this, video Bill Obrochta discusses paintings of George Washington.
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1749 Survey
In this video, Lee Shepard discusses Washington's 1749 survey.
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Becoming Southerners
Medicine Chest
In this video, Outreach Educator Jennifer Nesossis discusses Dr. Richard Thompson Archer and his nineteenth-century English medicine chest.
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Becoming Confederates
John Brown's Bowie Knife
John Brown and his followers easily seized the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, but soon afterwards Brown was captured, and a number of his men were killed. He did succeed, however, in initiating a national debate about slavery. This video looks at John Brown's raid in American memory.
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Becoming New Southerners
A.D. Price Funeral Establishment
In this video, Lauranett Lee discusses the A. D. Price Funeral Establishment, one of the oldest African American-owned businesses in Virginia.
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Kline Kar
This video, excerpted from "Witness to a Century,"
discusses the automobile in early Virginia.
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Street Car
This video, excerpted from "Witness to a Century,"
discusses segregation in Virginia.
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Becoming Americans Again
S.S. Quanza
In this video, Greg Hansard tells the story of the "S.S. Quanza."
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The Home Front
This video, excerpted from "Witness to a Century," discusses the sacrifices made on the home front during World War II.
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African Americans in World War II
This video, excerpted from "Witness to a Century,"
discusses African American participation in World War II.
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Women in the Work force
This video, excerpted from "Memories of World War II: Photographs from the Archives of The Associated Press,"
discusses the female work force during World War II.
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Becoming Equal
Civil Rights Movement
This video, excerpted from "Witness to a Century," discusses the civil rights movement in Virginia.
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L. Douglas Wilder
This video, excerpted from "Witness to a Century,"
discusses the gubernatorial election of L. Douglas Wilder.
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