Latest Banner lectures Podcast Episodes
Searching For Stonewall Jackson by Ben Cleary
Virginia Historical Society Podcasts - February 07, 2020 18:53 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 58 ratingsOn January 30, 2020, Ben Cleary delivered the Banner Lecture, "Searching for Stonewall Jackson: A Quest for Legacy in a Divided America." Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson was the embodiment of southern contradictions. He was a slaveowner who fought and died, at least in part, to perpetuate sl...
Lincoln's Spies by Douglas Waller
Virginia Historical Society Podcasts - February 06, 2020 20:16 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 58 ratingsOn January 23, 2020, Douglas Waller delivered the Banner Lecture, "Lincoln’s Spies: Their Secret War to Save a Nation." Lincoln’s Spies is a story about dangerous espionage and covert operations during the Civil War. It is told through the lives of four Union agents. Allan Pinkerton, whose detect...
Gerrymanders by Brent Tarter
Virginia Historical Society Podcasts - February 06, 2020 19:55 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 58 ratingsOn January 9, 2020, Brent Tarter presented a Banner Lecture about his most recent book, Gerrymanders: How Redistricting Has Protected Slavery, White Supremacy, and Partisan Minorities in Virginia. Many are aware that gerrymandering exists and suspect it plays a role in our elections, but its hist...
The Property of The Nation by Matthew Costello
Virginia Historical Society Podcasts - December 17, 2019 20:49 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 58 ratingsOn December 10, 2019, Matthew Costello delivered the Banner Lecture, “The Property of the Nation: George Washington’s Tomb, Mount Vernon, and the Memory of the First President.” George Washington was an affluent slaveowner who believed that republicanism and social hierarchy were vital to the yo...
From Reel To Real Indians
Virginia Historical Society Podcasts - December 17, 2019 18:03 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 58 ratingsOn November 20, 2019, the VMHC presented a screening of the award-winning film Reel Injun (2009, 88 minutes) by Cree-Canadian filmmaker Neil Diamond. Reel Injun is an entertaining and provocative look at a century-worth of Hollywood depictions of Native Americans and the misconceptions and stereo...
Is Cancer Still the Emperor? How Innovative Research and Treatments Offer Hope for a Cure
Virginia Historical Society Podcasts - December 17, 2019 17:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 58 ratingsIn 2009, physician, researcher, and science writer, Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee, published his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer. In it, he describes the story of cancer as a human story marked by ingenuity, resilience, and perseverance, but also hubris,...
The Notorious History of The Virginia State Penitentiary by Dale M. Brumfield
Virginia Historical Society Podcasts - December 17, 2019 15:52 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 58 ratingsOn November 6, 2019, Dale M. Brumfield delivered a Banner Lecture, “The Notorious History of the Virginia State Penitentiary.” In 1796, the Virginia General Assembly finally reformed Virginia’s penal laws and embraced Thomas Jefferson’s theory of “labor in confinement.” The Virginia State Penit...
The British Are Coming: The War for America, 1775–77 by Rick Atkinson (Wilkinson Lecture 2019)
Virginia Historical Society Podcasts - December 13, 2019 20:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 58 ratingsOn October 23, 2019, Rick Atkinson delivered the J. Harvie Wilkinson, Jr. Lecture, “The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775–1777.” From the battles at Lexington and Concord in spring 1775 to those at Trenton and Princeton in winter 1777, American militiamen and...
The Ghosts Of Eden Park by Karen Abbott
Virginia Historical Society Podcasts - October 24, 2019 15:07 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 58 ratingsOn October 10, 2019, Karen Abbott will deliver a Banner Lecture entitled, “The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America.” In the early days of Prohibition, a German immigrant named George Remus quit practicing law and started ...
Searching For Black Confederates: The Civil War's Most Persistent Myth by Kevin M. Levin
Virginia Historical Society Podcasts - October 03, 2019 19:49 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 58 ratingsOn October 1, 2019, Kevin M. Levin delivered a Banner Lecture entitled, “Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth.” More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, scores of websites, articles, and organizations repeat claims that anywhere between 500 and 100,00...
Keep on Keeping On by Brian J. Daugherity
Virginia Historical Society Podcasts - September 16, 2019 17:56 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 58 ratingsOn September 12, 2019, Brian J. Daugherity delivered the Banner Lecture, “Keep on Keeping On: The NAACP and the Implementation of Brown v. Board of Education in Virginia.” The lecture coincided with the museum’s exhibition, "Determined: The 400-Year Struggle for Black Equality." Virginia played ...
Play ball! America's Doughboys and the National Pastime in the Great War by Alexander F. Barnes
Virginia Historical Society Podcasts - September 03, 2019 15:19 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 58 ratingsOn August 29, 2019, Alexander F. Barnes delivered the Banner Lecture, “Play ball! America's Doughboys and the National Pastime in the Great War.” In 1917, there were two kinds of men in America: professional baseball players, and men who wanted to be professional ball players. With America’s ent...
Thurgood Marshall: A Life in American History by Dr. Spencer Crew
Virginia Historical Society Podcasts - August 26, 2019 20:32 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 58 ratingsOn August 22, 2019, Dr. Spencer Crew delivered the banner lecture, "Thurgood Marshall: A Life in American History." Thurgood Marshall is best remembered as the first African American Supreme Court Justice. But to only remember him in that way is to do him an injustice. He had a remarkable and si...
Virginia Waterways and The Underground Railroad by Cassandra Newby-Alexander
Virginia Historical Society Podcasts - August 15, 2019 16:32 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 58 ratingsEnslaved Virginians sought freedom from the time they were first brought to the Jamestown colony in 1619. Acts of self-emancipation were aided by Virginian’s waterways, which became part of the network of the Underground Railroad in the years before the Civil War. Watermen willing to help escaped...
The Life and Times of Henry Stuart Foote by Ben Wynne (Chauncey Lecture 2019)
Virginia Historical Society Podcasts - August 15, 2019 16:31 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 58 ratingsOn July 1, 2019, Ben Wynne delivered the 2019 Hazel and Fulton Chauncey Lecture, "The Life and Times of Henry Stuart Foote, Southern Unionist and 'The Man Who Punched Jefferson Davis.'" This lecture presents the life of antebellum politician Henry Stuart Foote (1804–1880), one of the most vocal,...
The Jamestown Brides by Jennifer Potter
Virginia Historical Society Podcasts - June 28, 2019 17:01 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 58 ratingsOn June 25, 2019, Jennifer Potter delivered the Banner Lecture, “The Jamestown Brides: The Story of the Virginia Company's Trade in Young English Wives.” In 1621, fifty-six English women from good families crossed the Atlantic in response to the Virginia Company of London's call for maids “young ...
Scottish Stone Masons And Virginia Stone 6.5.19
Virginia Historical Society Podcasts - June 05, 2019 17:52 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 58 ratingsOn June 5, 2019, Stewart McLaurin delivered the Banner Lecture, "Scottish Stone Masons and Virginia Stone." In the 1790s, the stone harvested from Government Island in Stafford, Virginia, was used to construct the White House and the Capitol. Today, the remaining outcroppings of rock still stand ...
Daniel Morgan, Virginian
Virginia Historical Society Podcasts - May 24, 2019 20:06 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 58 ratingsOn May 23, 2019, Albert Louis Zambone delivered the Banner Lecture, "Daniel Morgan, Virginian." By the end of his life, Daniel Morgan had variously been brigadier general of the Continental Army, major general of the Virginia Militia, a winner of the Congressional Gold Medal, a congressman, and a...
George C. Marshall Foundation Lecture - FDR And Marshall The Men Who Saved D-Day
Virginia Historical Society Podcasts - May 24, 2019 20:05 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 58 ratingsOn May 14, 2019, author Nigel Hamilton delivered the George C. Marshall Foundation Lecture. In honor of the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, it is fitting we remember the men who ensured the great invasion took place: the U.S. commander in chief, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and his ch...
George C. Marshall Foundation Lecture - FDR And Marshall The Men Who Saved D-Day
Virginia Historical Society Podcasts - May 24, 2019 20:05 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 58 ratingsOn May 14, 2019, author Nigel Hamilton delivered the George C. Marshall Foundation Lecture. In honor of the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, it is fitting we remember the men who ensured the great invasion took place: the U.S. commander in chief, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and his...
Native Southerners: The Indigenous People Who Made and Remade the South
Virginia Historical Society Podcasts - May 24, 2019 20:01 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 58 ratingsOn May 9, 2019, Gregory D. Smithers delivered the Banner Lecture, "Native Southerners: The Indigenous People Who Made and Remade the South." Long before the indigenous people of southeastern North America encountered Europeans and Africans, they established communities with clear social and polit...
American Moonshot
Virginia Historical Society Podcasts - May 24, 2019 19:47 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 58 ratingsOn April 17, 2019, Douglas Brinkley delivered the 2019 Stuart G. Christian, Jr. Lecture, "American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race." On May 25, 1961, John F. Kennedy made an astonishing announcement: his goal of putting a man on the moon by the end of the decade. In American Mo...
The Calculus Of Violence
Virginia Historical Society Podcasts - April 30, 2019 15:13 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 58 ratingsOn April 25, 2019, Aaron Sheehan-Dean delivered the Banner Lecture, "The Calculus of Violence: How Americans Fought the Civil War." At least three-quarters of a million lives were lost during the American Civil War. Given its seemingly indiscriminate mass destruction, this conflict is often thoug...
The League Of Wives By Heath Hardage Lee
Virginia Historical Society Podcasts - April 30, 2019 14:59 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 58 ratingsOn April 5, 2019, Heath Hardage Lee delivered the Banner Lecture, "The League of Wives: The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the U.S. Government to Bring Their Husbands Home from Vietnam." On February 12, 1973, one hundred and fifteen men who, just six years earlier, had been high flying Nav...
Jefferson’s Treasure: How Albert Gallatin Saved the New Nation from Debt
Virginia Historical Society Podcasts - March 25, 2019 00:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 58 ratingsOn March 26, 2019, Gregory May delivered a Banner Lecture entitled “Jefferson’s Treasure: How Albert Gallatin Saved the New Nation from Debt.” The fight over how to pay for government has always been at the heart of American politics. Thomas Jefferson’s champion in that fight was Albert Gallatin....
Hampton Roads Murder and Mayhem: The Darker Side of the Tidewater
Virginia Historical Society Podcasts - March 14, 2019 17:46 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 58 ratingsOn March 14, 2019, Nancy E. Sheppard delivered the Banner Lecture, “Hampton Roads Murder and Mayhem: The Darker Side of the Tidewater.” Join two-time, award-nominated author and historian, Nancy Sheppard, as she discusses some of the darker tales from southeastern Virginia. Dive into true stories...
Breaking The Silence: League Of Wives Panel Discussion
Virginia Historical Society Podcasts - March 07, 2019 21:34 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 58 ratingsThe formation of the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia is a national story with strong ties to Virginia. Fueled by their shared frustration about the United States government’s silence regarding prisoners of war held by the North Vietnamese, Phyllis G...
Across Time: Robinson House, Its Land and People
Virginia Historical Society Podcasts - March 07, 2019 21:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 58 ratingsOn February 28, 2019, Elizabeth L. O’Leary delivered the Banner Lecture, “Across Time: Robinson House, Its Land and People.” What is that building? Just a short stroll from the Virginia Museum of History & Culture stands a tall antebellum structure with a soaring pyramidal belvedere. Robinson Hou...
Tracking Down a Confederate Deserter after Gettysburg by Peter S. Carmichael
Virginia Historical Society Podcasts - March 06, 2019 19:32 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 58 ratingsOn February 21, 2019, Peter S. Carmichael delivered the Banner Lecture, “Tracking Down a Confederate Deserter after Gettysburg.” On August 20, 1863, thirteen veteran soldiers from the 3rd North Carolina Infantry decided that they'd had enough of war. That evening, in the blackness of night, they ...
Murals Of Richmond Artist Panel
Virginia Historical Society Podcasts - January 31, 2019 21:13 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 58 ratingsOver the past decade, Richmond has seen an explosion of public artwork. Artist, muralist, and writer Mickael Broth has documented this phenomenon in his new book, Murals of Richmond. In this special edition banner lecture, held on January 10, 2019, Broth moderates a lively panel discussion about ...
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