On Friday, October 24th, Historian, author and cartographer, Rick Britton, joined Charlottesville Right Now to talk about The Emancipation Proclamation.
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On Friday, October 24th, Historian, author and cartographer, Rick Britton, joined Charlottesville Right Now to talk about The Emancipation Proclamation.
Charles Bryan is the President and CEO of the Virginia Historical Society. On October 3rd, 2008, Mr. Bryan appeared before the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society at the University of Virginia to discuss books that have changed history.
Dr. John Maass, an historian with the Contemporary Studies Branch of the U.S. Army Center of Military History at Fort McNair in D.C., joined Coy Barefoot to discuss Tarleton’s 1781 Raid on Charlottesville during The Revolutionary War.
The Albemarle County Historical Society is organizing a tour related to the raid on September 27, 2008.
Local cartographer and historian Rick Britton joins Coy Barefoot every Friday on WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to talk about Charlottesville and Albemarle County history. This week on the show:
Objects and ideas inform both history and contemporary thought and are the basis of the study of material culture. For Maurie McInnis, associate professor of American art and material culture and director of American Studies, understanding the antebellum South in the 19th century encompasses understanding art and objects from the perspective of class politics, social structures and hierarchies.
Working with Angela D. Mack, curator of the traveling show that originated at the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, S.C., McInnis has spent the last four years creating Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art, an exhibition on view through April 20 at the University of Virginia Art Museum. The exhibition focuses on themes of race, slavery and the plantation from the 19th century to today…
For more information about the show or to see full text, visit the Oscar Show’s blog.