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[Webinar] Civic Capital Initiative

Wednesday, December 2, 2026
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The Launch of Lincoln's March

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Sailfest, hosted by @virginiahistory is an exciting and important opportunity for us to learn, reflect, and act on the history embedded in these vessels.

Visit the ships and take in their scale.

Then come nearby to the Shockoe Institute at Main Str

This summer, make room for a visit that invites you to slow down, look closer, and ask deeper questions.

Experience Expanding Freedom at Shockoe Institute, an exhibit that explores the long and unfinished struggle to define freedom in Virginia and i

At the Shockoe Institute, history is not held at a distance. It is researched, interpreted, experienced, and brought into conversation with the present.

Through the Expanding Freedom exhibit, The Lab, Our Library, and Shockoe Presents, we create spa

Shockoe Institute is proud to have Gregg Kimball, Ph.D., Senior Historian in Residence, present at the 91st Annual Meeting & Regulators Training Symposium in Richmond.

At Shockoe, we often say, let's "put history to work", meaning that we can use the lessons of history to improve our civic life today. This Memorial Day, let's learn from Powhatan Beaty, whose life shows us that American history is rarely s

Today is International Museum Day, organized by @icomofficiel , and recognizes the role cultural institutions play in preserving, interpreting, and sharing history.

The Shockoe Institute is not a museum alone. It is a think tank, an arts organizatio

Thank you to the @bigdipperexperience hosts and organizers for a powerful gathering and a thoughtful conversation.

It is always great to talk about the Shockoe Institute on stages large and small, and to be in rooms where people are thinking deeply

In her published narrative, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs documented motherhood under slavery, showing how family life was shaped by law, surveillance, violence, and the constant threat of separation.

What makes her writing s