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• Up, Up and Away: Civil War Ballooning in Hampton Roads

  • Civil War
  • Hampton Roads History
  • Military Conflict
  • Technology

  November 12, 2020

  The Civil War introduced many new technologies to achieve victory in a total war.

  

• 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.

  

• Coastal Ironclads Other Than Monitors

  • Civil War
  • Military
  • Military Conflict

  January 24, 2022

  The American Civil War is often considered the first modern industrial war. Both North and South endeavored to mobilize their resources to wage total war. This experience revolutionized naval warfare, and in doing so, forever changed America’s political, social, and economic fabric.

  

• The Lost Story of the Marcus Garvey Movement in Newport News

  • Black History
  • Cultural Heritage
  • Hampton Roads History

  February 22, 2023

  Who was Marcus Garvey? Learn more about his significance not only to Black history and the world, but specifically to Newport News.

  

• Battle of Port Royal Sound

  • Black History
  • Civil War
  • Military Conflict

  November 5, 2020

  The Civil War’s second major amphibious operation was the capture of Port Royal Sound on November 7, 1861.

  

• Battle of Galveston

  • Civil War
  • Military Conflict
  • Shipbuilding

  October 23, 2020

  Major General John Bankhead Magruder arrived in Texas in late October 1862 and immediately sought to regain the laurels he had earned on the Virginia Peninsula.