Charlottesville (City) – The UncommonWealth

10 Holiday Gifts Worth Time-Traveling For!

Everyone has a holiday gift guide now so here are our favorites from the 1956 Miller & Rhoads Christmas Catalog. Or if you don't care…

Library of VirginiaDecember 22, 2021

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

Digital Projects Manuscripts & Special Collections

Those Who Served, Those Who Fell: War and the Yearbook

As the holiday season comes and goes, our thoughts turn to those who are away from home and those who will never see home again.…

Rose SchooffDecember 19, 2018

The Legacy of John Henry James

On 12 July 1898, an Albemarle County grand jury met to hear evidence against an African American man named John Henry James accused of assaulting…

Greg CrawfordJune 6, 2018

Manuscripts & Special Collections

The Art of the Annual: The Virginia Yearbook Digitization Project

In 2015, I started the Library’s yearbook digitization project to scan yearbooks from all around Virginia on behalf of public libraries. Thanks to funds from…

Rose SchooffApril 18, 2018

"Breeding Places of Drunkenness:" Prohibition Crackdowns and UVA Football

College students have never been known for their avoidance of alcohol, and it was no different in the 1930s, despite the fact that alcohol was…

Claire RadcliffeAugust 30, 2017

Newspapers

Be True to Your School

Question: What do the following five quotes have in common? Answer: They are all quotes taken from high school newspapers. And while academic newspapers cover topics…

Kelley EwingJuly 24, 2015

Newspapers

Anti-Liquor, College, and Charlottesville papers donated to LVA

Recently, the Library of Virginia received generous gifts of historical Virginia newspapers from the Tennessee State Library and Archives and Christopher Newport University.The Tennessee State Library and…

Kelley EwingAugust 17, 2012