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Christopher Leahy talked about John Tyler, the first vice president to succeed a president who died in office--and who was ejected from his own political party. The Virginia Museum of Histor…

In the fall of 1841, the slave ship Creole left Richmond, Virginia, en route to New Orleans with just over 130 slaves on-board. When it arrived, the ship’s captain was gone as well as most o…

Ric Murphy talked about his book Arrival of the First Africans in Virginia, which profiles the “20 and odd” Africans who arrived in the Jamestown colony in 1619. This group included Murphy’s…