This Week in Virginia History
Sure, Virginia history includes big moments, big battles, and big names. But the richer history is full of smaller events occurring in the fullness of time. The disenfranchised, the nonconformists, and just regular people making Virginia history. Week in, week out. This Week in Virginia History explores those stories, curated by Nathan Moore and culled from the vast archives at Encyclopedia Virginia.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 2 minutes
- Episodes
- 125
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2023
Week of Sept 1: Henry Box Brown publishes the story of his escape
This week in 1849... Charles Stearns and Henry Box Brown published a book with the rather long-winded title: "Narrative of Henry Box Brown, who escaped from slavery, enclosed in a box three feet long…
Week of August 25: President James and Dolley Madison and their slaves escape the White House
This week in 1814… President James and Dolley Madison and their slaves escape the White House as the British invade and burn Washington, DC. As first lady, Dolley Madison had been a much-celebrated h…
Week of August 18: Charles Venable and the Lost Cause
This week in 1865… The University of Virginia names Charles Venable chair of the mathematics department. But his concerns extended beyond mathematics... For three and a half decades, Venable played a…
Week of August 11: Lee statue and Unite the Right rally
This week in 2017... White supremacists rally around the statue of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville. One of them runs his car through a crowd of counter-protestors, killing one person and injuring at…
Week of August 4: Farmville civil rights arrests
This week in 1963... Eleven people were arrested in downtown Farmville for parading without a permit. They were demanding an end to segregation and that public schools reopen.