2014 has been a special year filled with special events for Stafford County. Celebrating its 350th anniversary, the county held numerous community-based historical celebrations to mark the…
Callie FreedNovember 26, 2014
Here in Virginia, there are some pretty strong views on history. It isn’t merely in the past, it is occurring in the present as well. …
Sonya ColemanJanuary 22, 2013
In some cases, failing extravagantly can work in favor of your cause. Go big or go home, as it were. John Brown was an American abolitionist who…
Sonya ColemanJanuary 15, 2013
How did views on slavery evolve in the decades leading up to the Civil War? What different concerns did Quakers, soldiers, and revolutionaries express about…
Sonya ColemanJanuary 8, 2013
On 3 March 2011 the University of Virginia’s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library announced that it recently purchased a copy of David Walker’s anti-slavery “Appeal…
Roger ChristmanMarch 4, 2011
David Walker, a free black man from Boston, wrote to Thomas Lewis in Richmond on 8 December 1829 enclosing thirty copies of the first edition…
Craig MooreFebruary 9, 2011
