This course illustrates life in Virginia between 1800 and late 1990s through critical analysis of oral histories. Examines interviews with former slaves from the 1920s and 1930s, with displaced residents of the Shenandoah Hollows from the 1930s and 1940s, and with Albemarle/Charlottesville residents from the 1980s and 1990s. Taught by Dr. Lynn Rainville, an anthropologist and historian.