About Virginia Museum of History & Culture Podcast
This series contains audio from lectures given in person or online at the Virginia Museum of History & Culture by renowned authors on historical topics. The content and opinions expressed by guest lecturers in these presentations are solely those of the speaker and not necessarily of the Virginia Museum of History & Culture.To view a video of the lecture, visit VirginiaHistory.org/video.
The Virginia Museum of History & Culture is owned and operated by the Virginia Historical Society — a private, non-profit organization. The historical society is the oldest cultural organization in Virginia, and one of the oldest and most distinguished history organizations in the nation. For use in its state history museum and its renowned research library, the historical society cares for a collection of nearly nine million items representing the ever-evolving story of Virginia.
Step into the vaults of history with "Treasures of Virginia," a podcast series that delves deep into the stories behind the remarkable objects on display at the Virginia Museum of History & Culture's (VMHC). Each episode is a journey through time, guided by the artifacts that have shaped Virginia's rich and diverse history. Interviews with expert historians and curators offer listeners a comprehensive understanding of Virginia's past and its enduring impact on the present.
Join us on a voyage of discovery as we unlock the secrets of Virginia's past, one artifact at a time. "Treasures of Virginia" invites you to explore history in a whole new light and gain a profound appreciation for the enduring legacy of the Commonwealth.
1 Aug 2024
The Lead Plate that Started a World War
Step into the vaults of history with "Treasures of Virginia," a podcast series that delves deep into the stories behind the remarkable objects on display at the Virginia Museum of History & Culture's (VMHC). Each episode is a journey through time, guided by the artifacts that have shaped Virginia's rich and diverse history. Interviews with expert historians and curators offer listeners a comprehensive understanding of Virginia's past and its enduring impact on the present.
Join us on a voyage of discovery as we unlock the secrets of Virginia's past, one artifact at a time. "Treasures of Virginia" invites you to explore history in a whole new light and gain a profound appreciation for the enduring legacy of the Commonwealth.
12 Mar 2024
Untold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson
On March 7, 2024, biographer Rebecca Boggs Roberts provided an unflinching look at First Lady Edith Bolling Galt Wilson.
While this nation has yet to elect its first female president—and though history has downplayed her role—just over a century ago a woman became the nation’s first acting president. In fact, she was born in 1872, and her name was Edith Bolling Galt Wilson. She climbed her way out of Appalachian poverty and into the highest echelons of American power and in 1919 effectively acted as the first female president of the United States when her husband, Woodrow Wilson, was incapacitated. Beautiful, brilliant, charismatic, catty, and calculating, she was a complicated figure whose personal quest for influence reshaped the position of First Lady into one of political prominence forever. Rebecca Boggs Roberts offered an unflinching look at the woman whose ascent mirrors that of many powerful American women before and since, one full of the compromises and complicities women have undertaken throughout time in order to find security for themselves and make their mark on history.
Rebecca Boggs Roberts is an award-winning educator, author, and speaker, and a leading historian of American women’s suffrage and civic participation. She is currently deputy director of events at the Library of Congress and serves on the board of the National Archives Foundation, on the Council of Advisors of the Women’s Suffrage National Monument Foundation, and on the Editorial Advisory Committee of the White House Historical Association. Her books include the award-winning The Suffragist Playbook: Your Guide to Changing the World; Suffragists in Washington, D.C.: The 1913 Parade and the Fight for the Vote; and Untold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson.
The content and opinions expressed in these presentations are solely those of the speaker and not necessarily of the Virginia Museum of History & Culture.
Inside a recent episode
Pocahontas Symposium: Session 3
Published 31 Jan 2019 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Those children are coming away with something that perhaps generation before did not. I would also like to suggest that Native people tell our story, tell her story. If there's any way to tell the story differently, is to let the indigenous people of Virginia reframe the story, tell the story. I really appreciate all of the academic study and all of those kinds of things. But we have to live in this time and get funding. Part of that is getting the ability for Native people to tell their story and funding to have those whatever its movies or, however it's reframed, it needs to come from a Native voice. […]
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