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Disrupting Conventional Historical Wisdom
Christy Coleman is executive director of the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, an educational Virginia state agency that offers programs and resources about early American history. VEDP Senior Vice President for Marketing, Communications & Research Stephen …
Disrupting Conventional Historical Wisdom
Christy Coleman is the executive director of the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, an educational Virginia state agency that offers programs and resources about early American history through its living history museums, Jamestown Settlement and the American …
Virginia: Where the American Experiment Took Root
In the months leading up to July 1776, the Second Continental Congress entrusted a Virginian, Thomas Jefferson, to draft the formal document declaring the colonies’ independence from Great Britain. The 13 British colonies in mainland North America had …
A Proving Ground for Cutting-Edge Technology
It’s not exaggerating to say that Virginia has been part of the internet since day one. The Commonwealth’s proximity to the federal government in Washington, D.C., makes it a natural place to deploy new technology. In Northern Virginia, network …
A History of Innovation
Virginia has a long history as a site where revolutions can take root. In recent decades, that revolutionary spirit has attracted entrepreneurs and startups who see Virginia as a place where new ideas grow into powerful energy disruptors. Today’s …
Alexandria’s Light Bulb Moment
Alexandria is known for Old Town’s historic shops and homes that are as inviting as they are immaculately preserved. But it’s also home to groundbreaking, game-changing technology, including Saltenna LLC’s capability to connect with wireless signals …
A Broader Stage
Brent Ward likes challenging projects. As a co-founder of design firm Riggs Ward, his job is to help bring stories to life, through displays of artifacts, graphics, soundscapes, and interactive digital media. The Richmond-based company has created …
Southern Virginia’s Advanced Manufacturing Renaissance
Since Drake Extrusion opened a plant in Southern Virginia to make polypropylene fibers and yarns 31 years ago, the company weathered the collapse of the region’s traditional industry and global downturns and never laid off a worker. “They’ll absorb the …
Historic Virginia Companies, Then & Now
BWX Technologies, Inc., started out as a boiler manufacturer. They were top-notch boilers — no less an authority than Thomas Edison said so — but the idea that the company would one day be critical to the effort to put a man on Mars, like the …