Virginia Historical Society

Richmond

The Virginia Historical Society in Richmond

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Martha (Dandridge) Custis Washington, 1795

The Virginia Constitutional Convention, c. 1830

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Four of the first five presidents were from Virgina (Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe), influencing 32 — of the first 36 — years of the early American Republic.
The museum includes several paintings, each, by Charles Willson Peale, Thomas Sully, and Jean Leon Gerome Ferris.

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The Virginia Historical Society is both a museum and a library. The signature exhibition, The Story of Virginia, features objects and artifacts that guide a visitor through more than 16,000 years of Virginia history, from prehistoric times to the present.

Gives focus to Virginia’s impact during colonial times, Revolutionary times, and during the early Republic. (Includes significant coverage of the Civil War, as well.)

The British red coat (which gave the British soldiers the soubriquet of lobsterback) had been instituted in 1660 and was not to leave the battlefield until 1882. It was the national corporate logo, and arrayed beneath it were subordinate brands — the regiments with their facing colors (the contrast color of the lapel and cuff), connected to the mother brand but differentiated.

— Michael Stephenson

Patriot Battles: How the War of Independence Was Fought (2007)