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  • Celebrating 10 years of History Bites

    • Cultural Heritage
    • Recreation

    What’s History Bites, you ask? It is a fabulous food event that has served as the finishing touch of the Museum’s annual Commemoration of the Battle of Hampton Roads for the past 10 years!

  • Spirits on USS Monitor: A Daily Dose of Grog

    • Civil War
    • Cultural Heritage
    • Military
    • USS Monitor

    Grog was first introduced in the 18th century, eventually a mix of rum, gin, or whiskey with water, sugar, and lime or lemon.

  • The fruitful earth: A brief tale of the talented Janet Taylor

    • Women's History

    During the Victorian period in England, a famous astronomer and mathematician named Janet Taylor (formerly Jane Ann Ionn), made her indelible mark in the male-dominated field of science and navigation

  • He was, above all, a Mariner

    • Cultural Heritage
    • Recreation

    Most everyone knows Hal Holbrook as a quintessential actor of television, movies, and the stage. Most everyone knows Hal Holbrook as a quintessential actor of television, movies, and the stage.

  • Marcus Garvey’s Black Star Line

    • Black History
    • Photography

    Marcus Garvey believed in the power of ships and transportation to change the lives of Black people all over the world.

  • African Americans and the Newport News Port of Embarkation in World War I

    • Black History
    • Collections

    Dressed in a high-collared wool uniform with a corporal’s rank insignia sewn on his right sleeve, Benjamin Harrison Splowne had reason to beam.

  • Behind the Scenes on the SS United States with Albert Durant

    • Black History
    • Collections
    • Photography

    Photographer Albert Durant approached the opportunity to be on board the SS United States during its trial run to focus on fellow people of color whose service made the passengers’ journey pleasurable.

  • A World War II Camp Hill Mystery…

    • Black History
    • Collections
    • Hampton Roads History
    • Military

    Discovering the history of Camp Hill, a staging camp in Newport News for black troops.

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