Hampton History Museum
Life in the Reservation Community
Hampton History Museum 120 Old Hampton Lane, Hampton, VA, United StatesIn the decades before and after the Civil War, free Black landholders and entrepreneurs settled on the banks of the York River to build families and livelihoods. The community they established became known as the Reservation. In 1918, the U.S. government commandeered the land to build what is now known as the Naval Weapons Station... View Article
Remembrance Day
Hampton History Museum 120 Old Hampton Lane, Hampton, VA, United StatesFor centuries, the history of enslaved Africans was buried under skyscrapers, asphalt, and America’s amnesia. Ten to twenty-thousand unnamed skeletal remains of African men, women and mostly children lay in the heart of Wall Street in lower Manhattan while millions of other human beings drowned in the Atlantic Ocean during the massacre on the Middle... View Article
The Warmth of Other Suns Book Discussion
Hampton History Museum 120 Old Hampton Lane, Hampton, VA, United StatesHampton Roads Branch the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) in Partnership with the City of Hampton 2019 Commission Presents a Book Discussion of this award-winning Book: Warmth of Other Suns, By Isabel Wilkerson. This work tells the story of the Great Migration and the Second Great Migration, the movement... View Article
The Earth is Weeping by Peter Cozzens
Hampton History Museum 120 Old Hampton Lane, Hampton, VA, United StatesPeter Cozzens will speak and sign books at the Hampton History Museum. The Earth Is Weeping is a sweeping, definitive history of the battles and negotiations that destroyed the Indian way of life even as they paved the way for the emergence of the United States we know today. Peter Cozzens is the international-award winning... View Article
