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A Tool for Teachers: NDNP’s Race and Ethnicity Thesaurus for Chronicling America

Sites like Chronicling America, the Library of Congress’s database of over 20,000,000 digitized newspaper pages, and Virginia Chronicle, the Library of Virginia’s digital newspaper database,…

Kelley EwingSeptember 18, 2024

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Inclusive Indexing: Gabriel’s Conspiracy Documents in Virginia Untold

Editor's Note: This summer, Transforming the Future of Libraries and Archives intern Kade McGrail assisted in several different projects for the Library’s Virginia Untold project.…

Lydia NeurothAugust 28, 2024

Archives The Stacks

“Yours in Utmost Disgust”: Desegregation Letters to the Governor of Virginia

How do archivists describe documents that reflect years of trauma and oppression with sensitivity? What if these documents are inflammatory letters written during an era…

Library of VirginiaJune 5, 2024

Archives The Stacks

Description for All Virginians: Inclusive Description Efforts at the Library of Virginia

Since its establishment in 1823, the Library of Virginia has been managed and staffed largely by white, middle class, cisgender people. Consequently, the collections stored…

Library of VirginiaMarch 6, 2024