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Charlottesville author Mary E. Lyons chronicles the history of the Blue Ridge Tunnel and the slave labor that built it in her new book. She’s our guest…
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Studying the history of Southern migration is a great way to understand the history of the nation – that’s according to author and historian Ed Ayers. His…
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The flu pandemic of 1918 lasted from January of that year till about December of 1920, and it infected roughly 500 million people. But what was life like…
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When indigenous people living in the valley and Central Virginia first encountered Europeans they had already established communities with social and…
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WMRA and James Madison University present The John Grisham Writers Hour with special guest Jon Meacham, an award-winning historian and biographer who…
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Historian Jon Meacham says the United States’ current political division is nothing new. In his new book, The Soul of America, Meacham examines times when…