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The Flip Side

This conventional-looking portrait of an unknown Virginian, painted about 1825, hides a rather shocking secret, one that digs deep into Virginia's slave past. Media Editor Donna Lucey explains. (Image: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)

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Managing Editor Brendan Wolfe

Casting Away

EV is partnering with WTJU radio at the University of Virginia to produce regular podcasts that narrate content from the site. The first one will be a three-part series on the truly astonishing Virginia Indian Paquiquineo. Keep your ears open for it soon.

A First

Whatever your politics, history was made this month when Hillary Clinton was named as the presumptive presidential nominee for the Democratic Party by the Associated Press—the first woman nominated for president by a major party. Read about Leslie Byrne, the first Virginia woman elected to Congress and about the fight for woman suffrage at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Detail of a League of Women Voters poster (Library of Virginia)

This Month in Virginia History

June 2, 1609: A large fleet led by the flagship Sea Venture leaves England for Virginia in hopes of saving the failing colony.

June 3, 1946: In Morgan v. Virginia, the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down Virginia's law requiring racial segregation in interstate public conveyances.

June 10, 1887: Harry F. Byrd Sr. is born in Martinsburg, West Virginia.

June 11, 1900: Belle Boyd, a Confederate spy during the Civil War, dies in Wisconsin.

June 18, 1915: A. P. Carter and Sara Dougherty marry in Scott County. With Sara's cousin Maybelle Carter, they will found the Carter Family musical group.

June 19, 1803: Meriwether Lewis invites William Clark to serve as co-commander of an expedition to explore the North American West; Clark immediate accepts.

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