Virginia’s “Last” Duel
Dueling, a trend that emerged in the middle ages as a way to settle disputes among European nobility, persisted among members of the American press,…
Natalie DraperFebruary 11, 2013
The Arcadian: Prep School Paper Prepped For Preservation
Readers of Fit To Print know of the Newspaper Project’s growing enthusiasm for preservation microfilming and archiving college as well as some high school student…
Henry MorseFebruary 6, 2013
The Critic, Facebook for the 1880s
The Critic was a weekly society paper bringing “news, society, drama, and history” to Richmond from September 1887 to December 1890. The paper entertained its readers…
Natalie DraperJanuary 17, 2013
Playing it Safe With The Safety News
The most recent Ebay acquisition for the Library of Virginia’s newspaper collection is the Safety News of Omar, West Virginia. Published “monthly for employees of the West Virginia Coal…
Kelley EwingJanuary 3, 2013
Happy Holidays from the Virginia Newspaper Project
Similar to our friends at the Mecklenburg Times in 1941, above, the Virginia Newspaper Project is taking some time off for the holidays. Best wishes to…
Silver PersingerDecember 19, 2012
The more things change, well, the more things change.
If you need proof, simply compare today’s copy of the Richmond Times-Dispatch to an issue of The North American, a newspaper published in Philadelphia in the late…
Errol SomayDecember 14, 2012
Virginia Farm Bureau News Goes Digital
The article below was published in the Fall 2012 issue of the Library of Virginia’s Broadside. Check out Broadside for all things LVA related. . . In a welcome…
Errol SomayDecember 4, 2012
Newly Established Union Newspaper in Richmond on the Assassination of Lincoln
The Library of Virginia does have the Saturday, April 15, 1865 issue of The Richmond Whig, but the paper made no mention of the assassination…
Silver PersingerNovember 29, 2012
Eye Witness Account of Lincoln’s Assassination and Funeral Preparations
From the Richmond Times dated April 21, 1865, Volume 1, Number 1. The first edition of this newly established newspaper was published a full week after…
Silver PersingerNovember 21, 2012
Newspaper Accounts on the Death of Lincoln
With the renewed interest in President Abraham Lincoln due to Steven Spielberg’s latest movie, I thought it would be interesting to take a look at…
Silver PersingerNovember 19, 2012
Big Thanks to the Halifax Public Library
Recently, while visiting the Halifax County Public Library as part of a cooperative digitizing effort, Carl Childs, Local Records Services Director at LVA, was given…
Kelley EwingNovember 9, 2012
VNP Acquires Pages and Pages of Page County Newspapers
An auction purchase is but an occasional means of adding to the VNP archive but this was an occasion difficult to resist: some 100 copies…
Henry MorseOctober 23, 2012
When in Our Nation’s Capitol
There was a story on yesterday’s Morning Edition about an exhibit at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The exhibit is called “Shock of…
Silver PersingerSeptember 26, 2012
