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October 26, 2020
Public Executions in Lynchburg, Part 2
We are one week closer to that scariest of seasons, Halloween, and that brings us the second in our literary…
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October 22, 2020
Public Executions in Lynchburg, Part 1
As October rolls around once again, we find ourselves in a very different place than even one year ago. We…
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September 2, 2020
Remembering the End of World War II
September 2 marks the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, the greatest global conflict of the modern…
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August 1, 2020
Edgar Doswell, Jr.: Lynchburg’s Tuskegee Airman
Few residents of Lynchburg know that a member of the famed “Tuskegee Airmen” lived and worked in the Hill City…
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May 29, 2020
Women’s Suffrage Blog, Part 6: Twentieth Century
In celebrating the monumental—and consequential—American woman’s right to vote, with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, we have…
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April 28, 2020
Indigenous Peoples’ Voting Rights
During Reconstruction in 1868, the 14th Amendment was passed granting citizenship rights to anyone born in the United States. Unfortunately,…
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April 3, 2020
Women’s Suffrage Blog, Part 5: Into a Progressive New Century
The Industrial Revolution turned the world, as people knew it, upside down. Urbanization, mass migrations, cross-continental travel, new technologies, and…
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March 31, 2020
Treney Tweedy: Lynchburg’s First African American Female Mayor
On July 2, 2018, the Lynchburg City Council elected Council Member Treney Tweedy to become Mayor, Lynchburg’s first African American…
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March 27, 2020
Women’s Suffrage Blog, Part 4: Post-Civil War America and the Turn of the Century
The principle of “one person, one vote” is such an axiom in modern American thinking and discourse, it is hard…
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March 19, 2020
Women’s Suffrage Blog, Part 3: The Industrial Revolution Opens the Door to Woman’s Suffrage in Pre-Civil War-Era America
Until the 1830s, America was primarily an agrarian society. Cities were becoming hubs of thriving commerce—as the steam engine, spinning…
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