“House to Highway: Reclaiming a Community History” Symposium
Saturday, October 25, 2025 | 9:00am - 4:30pm
Free. Registration is required at
https://lva-virginia.libcal.com/event/14480337
Limited free parking is available underneath the Library at 800 East Broad Street.
The Library of Virginia will host a free symposium inspired by the exhibition “House to Highway: Reclaiming a Community History.” This day-long event will explore themes highlighted in the exhibition, including urban renewal, historic preservation and Black history. Join us for presentations from Calvin Schermerhorn, professor of history at Arizona State University and author of “The Plunder of Black America”; Warren Milteer, associate professor of history at George Washington University and author of “Beyond Slavery's Shadow: Free People of Color in the South”; and John Finn, associate professor of geography and chair of the Department of Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology at Christopher Newport University.
Additional sessions will include a workshop on historic preservation led by Latoya Gray-Sparks, community outreach coordinator for the Department of Historic Resources, and a discussion on grassroots historic preservation efforts presented by Viola Baskerville, former Virginia Secretary of Administration and former member of the Virginia House of Delegates, and Ana Edwards, a public historian and assistant professor of African American history at Virginia Commonwealth University.
View the event schedule at lva.virginia.gov/events/exhibitions/house-to-highway/symposium.
“House to Highway: Reclaiming a Community History” is on view at the Library through Feb. 28, 2026. "House to Highway" exhibition-related programming is provided with support from Virginia Humanities and the Mellon Foundation.
For more information, contact
ZWR1Y2F0aW9uIHwgbHZhICEgdmlyZ2luaWEgISBnb3Y=. Learn more about the event at lvafoundation.org/home/literaryawards
Shown in the event graphic, clockwise from upper left, are: Viola Baskerville, Ana Edwards, John Finn, Gregg Kimball, Calvin Schermerhorn, Sesha Joi Moon, Warren Milteer and Latoya Gray-Sparks.
You may also like the following events from Library of Virginia:
- This Wednesday, 15th October, 12:00 pm, Book Talk With Jody Lynn Allen | Roses in December in Richmond
- This Thursday, 16th October, 10:00 pm, Archives Month Webinar | Archiving Underrepresented Virginia History in Richmond, Virginia
- Next Saturday, 25th October, 10:00 am, Archives Month Tours of the Library of Virginia in Richmond
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