Traveling Exhibit, "Reimagining America: The Maps of Lewis and Clark"
This traveling exhibit from the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation uses large-scale reproductions of historic maps, photos, and explanatory text to show how America looked before the journey of ...Lewis and Clark, and what it looked like after. Using cutting-edge scientific techniques and methods as old as humanity, they created a new portrait of America so persuasive we still recognize it today. This exhibit shows how they did it.[+] Show More
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Traveling Exhibit, "Reimagining America: The Maps of Lewis and Clark"
This traveling exhibit from the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage ...
This traveling exhibit from the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation uses large-scale reproductions of historic maps, photos, and explanatory text to show how America looked before the journey of ...Lewis and Clark, and what it looked like after. Using cutting-edge scientific techniques and methods as old as humanity, they created a new portrait of America so persuasive we still recognize it today. This exhibit shows how they did it.[+] Show More
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Traveling Exhibit, "Reimagining America: The Maps of Lewis and Clark"
This traveling exhibit from the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage ...
This traveling exhibit from the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation uses large-scale reproductions of historic maps, photos, and explanatory text to show how America looked before the journey of ...Lewis and Clark, and what it looked like after. Using cutting-edge scientific techniques and methods as old as humanity, they created a new portrait of America so persuasive we still recognize it today. This exhibit shows how they did it.[+] Show More
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Traveling Exhibit: Who Can Vote? A Brief History of Voting Rights in the US
This traveling banner exhibition--from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of ...
This traveling banner exhibition--from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History --examines voting rights with an emphasis on the role of the US Constitution and the interplay between the states ...and federal government in determining who is allowed to vote. Beginning with the founding era and going up to the election of 2000, this exhibition explores the complex history of the right to vote that forms the core of our nation’s democracy. Topics include voting as a constitutional right, women’s suffrage, Reconstruction and Jim Crow era voting rights, the Civil Rights Movement, and the enfranchisement of Indigenous peoples.[+] Show More
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Book Talk: Black Communities of Fairfax: A History
Five local authors of "Black Communities of Fairfax: A History" spoke ...
Five local authors of "Black Communities of Fairfax: A History" spoke on a panel discussion at Historic Blenheim. They shared their deep-rooted stories from the communities in and around present ...day Fairfax City. Co-sponsored by the Historical Society of Fairfax County.[+] Show More
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Meet Frederick Douglass as portrayed by Nathan M. Richardson
Mr. Richardson is a published author, performance poet and Frederick ...
Mr. Richardson is a published author, performance poet and Frederick Douglass historian. His living history performance of Frederick Douglass captures completely the physical, spiritual and intellectual essence of the former ...slave, writer, orator and abolitionist.[+] Show More
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Jermantown Cemetery Legacy Day
On August 19, the Jermantown Cemetery Preservation Society held the ...
On August 19, the Jermantown Cemetery Preservation Society held the second annual Jermantown Cemetery Legacy Day, an occasion to celebrate Jermantown Cemetery, a 155-year-old historical African American cemetery in the ...city and honor the 138+ people buried there. Attendees gathered together as descendants and friends to celebrate the legacy of the Jermantown Cemetery.[+] Show More
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Remembering Etta Bowles Richards-Strozier
Etta Bowles Richards-Strozier of Fairfax, Va., died Jan. 27, 2023, at ...
Etta Bowles Richards-Strozier of Fairfax, Va., died Jan. 27, 2023, at the age of 106. In 2011, she provided her oral history for a series of videos about Fairfax City ...history.[+] Show More
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True Sons Of Freedom Exhibit
To commemorate World War I, True Sons of Freedom uses photographs of ...
To commemorate World War I, True Sons of Freedom uses photographs of African American soldiers from Virginia who fought overseas to defend freedoms they were denied at home.
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History Talk: Civil War Veterans and Opioid Addiction in the Postwar Decades
Dr. Jonathan S. Jones gives an in-depth presentation on how Opioids ...
Dr. Jonathan S. Jones gives an in-depth presentation on how Opioids affected the lives of Civil War Veterans.
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Fairfax Museum and Visitor Center's 30th Anniversary
The Fairfax Museum and Visitor Center celebrated its 30th anniversary ...
The Fairfax Museum and Visitor Center celebrated its 30th anniversary July 4. Matthew Dodd presented Songs of the Red, White, and Blue, and current and retired volunteers were recognized for ...their service. Visitors enjoyed free food and activities on the lawn.[+] Show More
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Historic Resources Volunteers
Every person, place, and object of interest in Fairfax City has a ...
Every person, place, and object of interest in Fairfax City has a story to tell. If you’d like to help the Office of Historic Resources tell those stories, please complete ...the application available at fairfaxva.gov/historic-resources/volunteer[+] Show More
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Celebrating 122 Years: Mount Calvary Baptist Church’s Original Pulpit and Chairs
Mount Calvary Baptist Church is a historical church, founded in 1870 ...
Mount Calvary Baptist Church is a historical church, founded in 1870 by freed slaves "who thought first to build a place of worship before attending to their own needs." ...Visit the exquisite original pulpit and chairs that represent a place of solace, worship, hope, and community for former enslaved people. Donated to the Fairfax City Collection from Mount Calvary Baptist Church.[+] Show More