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The Ordinance of Secession Coverage From the Richmond Times-Dispatch

Editor's Note: This media is no longer available. Check out this video of our own Tom Camden, Special Collections Director, discussing a rarely seen copy of…

Dale DulaneyApril 18, 2011

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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

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David Walker’s "Appeal" in the News

On 3 March 2011 the University of Virginia’s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library announced that it recently purchased a copy of David Walker’s anti-slavery “Appeal…

Roger ChristmanMarch 4, 2011

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Ensuring quality education for all

Editors Note: This post is a modified version of an article that originally appeared in the former “Virginiana” section of Virginia Memory. The Watkins Family Papers (Accession…

Renee SavitsFebruary 16, 2011

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David Walker’s Appeal: Anti-Slavery Literature in the Executive Communications

David Walker, a free black man from Boston, wrote to Thomas Lewis in Richmond on 8 December 1829 enclosing thirty copies of the first edition…

Craig MooreFebruary 9, 2011

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CW 150 in Print and on Television.

In case you missed it the CW 150 Legacy Project ‘s visit to the Campbell County courthouse in Rustburg was featured recently in the Richmond Times-Dispatch and on…

Dale DulaneyJanuary 25, 2011

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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

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Season’s Greetings, We Will Be Back 5 January 2011!

Dale DulaneyDecember 22, 2010

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What’s New in the Archives

Interested in what’s new in the archives at the Library of Virginia? You can find out in two reports compiled quarterly by LVA staffers: The Library of Virginia…

Roger ChristmanDecember 2, 2010

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Hope, Grief, Despair: The Emotional Impact of the Civil War

Next year marks the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War. The war’s effect on the people of Virginia was immense – especially to…

Jim GreveOctober 20, 2010

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October is Archives Month!

October is Archives Month! The theme of this year’s celebration in Virginia is Making Connections: Archives and Imagination. Archives Month celebrates those institutions and individuals…

Dale DulaneyOctober 1, 2010

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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

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What’s New in the Archives

Interested in what’s new in the archives at the Library of Virginia? You can find out in two reports compiled quarterly by LVA staffers: The Library of Virginia…

Roger ChristmanAugust 16, 2010

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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

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Ripped From the Family Bible

When I found an unopened envelope labeled “Exhibit A” among the papers of a Rockingham County Chancery cause, I was curious to see what could…

Dale DulaneyAugust 4, 2010