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A stone’s throw from madness

“I send you two patients to the mad stone. They are natives of this place and had their children bitten today.” -J. Reuben Richerson to R.…

Trenton HizerAugust 20, 2014

Manuscripts & Special Collections

All’s Fair in…

The smell of deep-fried pickles and cotton candy. The sounds of music and laughter. The sights of the midway. For well over a century and…

Trenton HizerOctober 3, 2013

Manuscripts & Special Collections

Everything I know about the Constitution, I learned from Chester the Crab (and Star Trek)

Not long ago, I caught ”The Omega Glory” episode of Star Trek on television. Kirk, Spock, and McCoy are trapped on a planet very similar to…

Trenton HizerMay 29, 2013

Manuscripts & Special Collections

Yearbook marks one chapter in a pioneering life

With 2011 marking the 70th anniversary of the United States’ entry into World War II, the Library of Virginia undertook a concerted effort to collect the…

Trenton HizerJanuary 23, 2013

Education & Programming Manuscripts & Special Collections The Stacks

New resource for Civil War research at the Library of Virginia

The Civil War experiences of Virginians from all walks of life and all corners of the state can be found at the Library of Virginia.…

Trenton HizerDecember 14, 2012

Manuscripts & Special Collections

This is the house that Jack built

Another presidential election year is upon us, and we are already bombarded with television ads touting the two candidates and proclaiming their positions on every…

Trenton HizerJune 13, 2012

Manuscripts & Special Collections

Buy Me Some Peanuts And Cigarettes: Baseball Cards in the Archive

Tucked away in the Business Records Collections at the Library of Virginia are five 2.5 x 1.5 inch baseball cards issued by the American Tobacco…

Trenton HizerAugust 3, 2011

Manuscripts & Special Collections

Introducing… the Organization Records Guide

Fraternal orders. Military regiments. Agricultural societies. Women’s organizations. Religious associations. Political parties. Schools. The Library of Virginia houses more than 650 collections of organization records…

Trenton HizerMarch 9, 2011

Manuscripts & Special Collections

The secession crisis: A Frenchman’s view of the "whirlwind"

"The indecision and the absence of energy in the convention of Virginia which does not dare proclaim itself either for or against secession have ended…

Trenton HizerJanuary 19, 2011

Manuscripts & Special Collections

A surveyor’s view of wartime Virginia

Editor's Note: Hopefully the captured notebook, referenced in the first paragraph of this article, survived its stay at the Herald and has now found a home…

Trenton HizerSeptember 29, 2010

Manuscripts & Special Collections

Sulphur, scams, and sketches

Wracked by tuberculosis (or consumption as it was then called), 23 year-old Martin Duralde spent a month and a half during the summer of 1846…

Trenton HizerAugust 11, 2010