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Facing Our History, Forging Our Future

George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. Ahmaud Arbery. Jacob Berryman. Cato. Dinah. Three names from current headlines. Three names from Virginia’s history found in our records.Their names,…

Library of VirginiaJune 11, 2020

Newspapers

Finding Asian Pacific Islander Desi Americans (APIDAs) in Virginia Newspapers

The Library of Virginia has an extensive collection of historical and current newspapers, with more than one million pages digitized. Newspapers can be a direct…

Emma ItoMay 22, 2020

Archives Newspapers

In Between: Japanese and Japanese Americans In Jim Crow Virginia

The Library of Virginia is closed to the public, but we can still observe Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month virtually! Let’s explore the…

Emma ItoMay 8, 2020

Archives Newspapers

Random Reference: Celery and Olives – A True Story

This is the first entry in our new "Random Reference" series, which will feature interesting discoveries made and reference questions answered by our Archives &…

Amanda MorrellApril 6, 2020

Education & Programming Manuscripts & Special Collections Newspapers

“Virginia Ready for Women to Vote”: The General Assembly Authorizes Women to Vote in 1920

Ed. Note: The health and safety of our visitors, employees, volunteers, and community are top priorities at the Library of Virginia. To help contain the…

Brent TarterMarch 25, 2020

Digital Projects Newspapers

New to Virginia Chronicle

The Library of Virginia has added several titles to the growing list of digitized historical newspapers accessible on Virginia Chronicle. Recent additions include: Alexandria Herald…

Kelley EwingMarch 24, 2020

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“A condition which is inevitable”: F. E. Alexander and the Struggle for Desegregation

In 1941, Fleming Emory Alexander, printer, journalist, minister, and civic leader, began publishing the Roanoke Tribune, an African American newspaper still in publication today. Issues…

Kelley EwingFebruary 26, 2020

Digital Projects Newspapers

“Lindomania” Sweeps Richmond

Jenny Lind, September 1850 (Image courtesy of the Library of Congress). Before there was Hamilton, before Beatlemania, before Elvis, there was Lindomania; and in 1850…

Jessi BennettDecember 18, 2019

Newspapers

“I hope to know a new and meaningful freedom”: A Crusading Newspaperman Moves On

Writing about Bruce Crawford’s 1935 departure from the newspaper industry, Louis Jaffe, the Pulitzer Prize-winning editor of Norfolk’s Virginian-Pilot, penned what amounted to a eulogy:…

Guest ContributorDecember 11, 2019

Newspapers

Yes, The Titanic

The Virginia Newspaper Project cannot resist the compelling story that is the Titanic. On April 16, 1912, the Richmond Times Dispatch issued its Tuesday morning paper…

Errol SomayAugust 21, 2019

Newspapers

St. Catherine’s School Newspapers on Virginia Chronicle

The Virginia Newspaper Project is happy to announce its collaboration with St. Catherine’s School in Richmond to film and digitize three of the historic school’s newspapers—The…

Kyle RogersAugust 7, 2019

Newspapers

Stealing Freedom: The Fairfax Slave Who Liberated Himself and His Son

During my research so far this summer for the Virginia Newspaper department’s continuing project in collaboration with Cornell University, Freedom on the Move, I have…

Kyle RogersJune 13, 2019

Newspapers

D-Day 75th Anniversary – The Bedford Boys

Thursday, June 6, marks the 75th anniversary of the Allied invasion of the beaches of Nazi-occupied France on D-Day. In honor of the sacrifices made…

Kyle RogersJune 5, 2019

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Strike! The Covington Pioneer

Settled in the Allegheny Mountains midway between Lexington and White Sulphur Springs, Covington is Virginia’s third smallest city with just under 6,000 residents. Today, the…

Kelley EwingMay 23, 2019

Archives Newspapers

Martha Ann Hobson: A Mother’s Day Story

While processing some City of Richmond court records from the Civil War era, I came across the remarkable narrative of a mother named Martha Hobson.…

Greg CrawfordMay 8, 2019