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• Money Makes the World Go ‘Round: Ancient Greek Coin

  • Collections
  • Cultural Heritage

  January 30, 2021

  On this coin that is well over 2300 years old, we see a floating galley on the reverse and a curious figure on the obverse. Some records of similar coins from the Phoenician city of Arados label their male figure as Poseidon, or sometimes Zeus, but these are Greek deities.

  

• Brittle Fracture: When Ships Split in Two

  • Technology

  January 28, 2021

  Profound respect and undying gratitude are owed to the merchant mariners who operated these ships even when they knew the work could be extremely dangerous.

  

• Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation During World War I

  • Collections
  • Hampton Roads History
  • Military
  • Military Conflict

  January 21, 2021

  The Virginia Peninsula was already engaged in wartime work when President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war against Germany on April 6, 1917. Local military bases, shipyards, air fields, ports, and people turned their faces toward the nation’s crusade to make the world safe for democracy.

  

• IRONCLADS STRIKE: CSS PALMETTO STATE AND CSS CHICORA

  • Civil War
  • Military
  • Military Conflict

  January 14, 2021

  Something unusual occurred in the early morning darkness of January 31, 1863, when the Confederate ironclad rams, CSS Chicora and CSS Palmetto State, crossed the Charleston Bar and struck the Union ships guarding that blockade runners’ haven.

  

• What Can You Do with a Ship When It’s Retired?

  • Collections

  January 7, 2021

  Ships can be repurposed in many ways, some become museums, some get scrapped for parts. Dive into some of these ships and how their stories continue today!

  

• The Pilot Boats of George Steers

  • Collections
  • Technology

  January 5, 2021

  George Steers designed boats that changed the face of naval architecture forever.

  

• A Snapshot of Love from our Collection, to Celebrate Engagement Season!

  • Collections

  January 4, 2021

  What all of these artifacts have in common is that they show that love is timeless.

  

• The Emancipation Proclamation: What did it actually say and mean for African Americans in the 1860s?

  • Black History
  • Collections

  January 3, 2021

  The Emancipation Proclamation did not free all enslaved African Americans but it was a start in that direction. It would be another two years before the war ended and with it, the ratification of the 13th Amendment, which abolished the institution of slavery in the United States forever.