The Virginia Historical Society was first organized in 1831, with Chief Justice John Marshall, its first president. Jump forward to 2018 and the VHS announced a new vision and a new name for its headquarters facility — The Virginia Museum of History and Culture.
This room of grandiose murals originally dedicated to bolstering the Confederate cause now tells a more even-handed story and demonstrates that being true to history is telling the whole story, the good, the bad and the ugly.
