History Preservation Inc

Name: History Preservation Inc
Address: Washington D.C., DC, US
Telephone: +12026189876

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For all of your historical matters such as historical consulting, grant writing, museum support, private collections, personal tours and historical research. You will also get historic trivia on Tuesdays and historic photos on Thursdays.

02/22/2026

On 22 Feb. 1960, 34 Virginia Union University students, 11 women and 23 men, refused to leave the segregated dining facilities here at Thalhimers department store and were arrested. Charged with trespassing, they were later convicted and fined.

This sit-in was part of a wave of protests across the South inspired by recent sit-ins in Greensboro, North Carolina. The arrests of the Richmond 34 sparked the Campaign for Human Dignity which organized boycotts and picketed Richmond businesses. Thalhimers and other retailers subsequently desegregated. In June 1963, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the convictions of the Richmond 34 in the case, Randolph v. Virginia.

DEPARTMENT OF HISTORIC RESOURCES, 2009

02/09/2026

Last week was , a day to raise global awareness, improve education, and catalyze personal, collective, and government action to reduce the impact of cancer. In honor of this, all this week I'll be sharing images from the Cancer Survivors Park in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.

The first in the series is a large scale sculpture. The plaque reads,

“This sculpture, ‘Cancer... There’s Hope’ is the last work of the world renowned sculptor, Victor Salmones. He claimed it to be his finest, a labor of love.

The back five figures are cancer patients and their supporters [entering or] preparing to enter treatment, represented by the maze. Notice the fear, determination and hope on their faces in contrast to the joy of the front three, signifying successful treatment.” 📷: 7 ~

02/02/2026

The current featured exhibit at the VCU hospital celebrates Black History Month with pieces by native-born Black Virginian artists on display. 🖼️: 4 ~

🎨 P. Muzi Branch
3. Bathing Beauties
4. African Mask
5. The Good Book

01/16/2026

For National Hat Day, enjoy this collection of hats from Ms. Elgie Ramsey Duncan, owner of the Brown-Lanier House for nearly forty years. Ms. Duncan's father, William T. Ramsey, purchased the house in 1920 from the person who purchased it from the Laniers about 10 years prior. After her parents' deaths, Ms. Duncan purchased her siblings' shares of the house in 1958 and lived there until she died in 1986. The hats were sold with the house in 1993 when the last residential owners purchased the property. The house is now part of Mill Springs Battlefield National Monument. ~

12/25/2025

A blessed Christmas Eve to all*. Sharing the nativity scene from a church in Henrico County, just across the city line. This is just a point in the scene that began the first Sunday of Advent and continues through Epiphany. Sending peace and warm wishes for the new year. 🙌🏾 ~

11/17/2025

Anyone else been stuck with this horrible new interface? The button in the prominent bottom middle is now for DMs. WHY?? Why swap the location of the search and the reels buttons? Why make it so that you have to scroll all the way back to the top of the screen to post? Completely unnecessary and unusable. 🤬 (..) ~

11/15/2025

Have you ever wondered why Veteran's Day is not a "Monday" holiday like most of the other Federal holidays? Surely this weekend or last should have been a three-day weekend, right? The reason traces the holiday back to its roots. Veteran's Day was once known as Armistice Day as a commemoration of the actual armistice reached with Germany that stipulated "at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month" of 1918, all troops from all countries were to lay down their arms wherever they were and the Great War would be over.

The day was much acknowledged yearly, though unofficially celebrated around the country as a day to not only remember the armistice, but also to honor those who had served in the Great War. It became a national holiday in the US in 1938, *just* before World War II began, after which, in 1954, it was renamed Veteran's Day to honor all who had served.

So while the name, Armistice Day, may have changed, the November 11 date for Veteran's Day still commemorates the original event and is shared with nations around the world. 📸: 3 ~

[Side note: notice the dates on the three memorials: the National World War I Memorial in Washington, DC, the World War I Memorial in Nashville's Centennial Park, and the War Memorial to the memory of railroad workers in Belgium, the length of the Great War varied from about 18 months for the US and greater than four years for Europe.]

[Also, since we are only a few years on the other side of the Covid-19 pandemic, it is worth noting that the so-called Spanish Influenza of 1918 began during World War I. Because Spain was neutral, they were the only ones willing to acknowledge and report on the growing outbreak instead of gaslighting their citizens to keep morale levels up.]

11/06/2025

Follow my story for today's visit to Poplar Forest, retirement home to third president, Thomas Jefferson.

11/05/2025

It's ArtobeRVA. Prompt 5: a local podcast. My favorite local podcast is called "History Reinvented". In the first season, the podcast focused on the past, present, and future of Mayo Island, an island in the James River, and the Mayo Bridge, which crosses over the island as it connects both sides of the city. The podcast host, Ian Stewart, interviews historians, locals, planners, and environmentalists. The second season focuses on an old tuberculosis hospital complex on Richmond's Northside.

Stewart also has another local podcast called "The Mechanics of Transportation" which goes into detail on various local transportation subjects from the free bus program to the history of certain routes through town to the future planning of bike lanes.

I recommend the second season of "History Reinvented" to anyone, even if you aren't local, because the story of this complex is fascinating, but if you *are* local, you should definitely listen to both seasons of HR as well as check out "The Mechanics of Transportation". Both are available wherever you get your podcasts. ~

10/30/2025

It's ArtobeRVA. Prompt 4 is a local library. This one is stretching *just* a little bit 🤏🏾, but here in the state capital, one of my local libraries happens to be the Library of Virginia. It also happens to be Virginia Archives Month so perfect time to share.

The LVa is the mothership of the public library system in Virginia and the life blood of rural systems. It's been around for a little over two hundred years and has a collection of books, documents, artifacts, and maps, not just on Virginia, but states that were once part of the colony and state like Kentucky and West Virginia. Symposia, exhibits, and lectures make it accessible to anyone even if you aren't doing research. ~

10/24/2025

Step inside Washington National Cathedral on this National Color Day for a glimpse of Seeing Deeper, a multimedia light show and sound bath. The event, typically held in February, is one part of a week that has included yoga, an adult prom, and a family movie night. Seeing Deeper is designed to connect the Cathedral to the DC community and the DC community to the awe that is National Cathedral. 📸: 9 ~

10/17/2025

It's ArtobeRVA. Prompt 3: A book by a local author or on a local subject. Here is my list of books on Richmond subject matter. From a brochure by Historic Richmond outlining buildings built by Black Richmonders to the fictionalized tale of the Richmond Theater Fire, The House is on Fire, there is no lack of information out there on Richmond history and this doesn't even count the myriad out there on Richmond in the American Revolution and Civil War. I even have a book about how Richmond streets were named that my dentist had displayed in his office. What is your favorite history book about your hometown or state, fiction or non-fiction? ~

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For all of your historical matters such as historical consulting, museum support, private collections, personal tours, house histories and other historical research. Like my page to keep up with my latest projects. Also available to provide AIA Continuing Education data entry support.