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Random Reference: Esperanto in Progressive Era Virginia Newspapers

Random Reference: Esperanto in Progressive Era Virginia

In February 1909, an unusual death notice appeared in a monthly magazine. Thirty-six-year-old Elizabeth Neely Warrington of Norfolk, Virginia, had died a few months earlier,…
Rebecca Schneider
Rebecca SchneiderAugust 19, 2024
A Quick Guide to Records Management ArchivesThe Stacks

A Quick Guide to Records Management

This post acts as a mini-FAQ on some of the essentials of records management in Virginia, including hot topics like physical storage, retention schedules, and…
Library of Virginia
Library of VirginiaAugust 14, 2024
Partnership Breathes New Life into Local Juvenile Detention Home Public Libraries

Partnership Breathes New Life into Local Juvenile Detention Home

What began as an outreach opportunity between the Chesterfield County Public Library (CCPL) and the Chesterfield Juvenile Detention Home (CJDH) has evolved into a year-round…
Guest Contributor
Guest ContributorAugust 12, 2024
Whatever Happened to Virginia’s Black Patriots? Stories from the Declarations for Revolutionary War Pensions Archives

Whatever Happened to Virginia’s Black Patriots? Stories from the Declarations for Revolutionary War Pensions

Crispus Attucks, Peter Salem, James Lafayette. The first person to die in the American Revolution at the Boston Massacre, a soldier responsible for killing a…
McKenzie Long
McKenzie LongAugust 7, 2024
Ride the Waves! Fight Pirates! In the Oyster Navy! ArchivesManuscripts & Special Collections

Ride the Waves! Fight Pirates! In the Oyster Navy!

Virginia’s Tidewater region has long been associated with the U.S. Navy, but did you know that the Commonwealth also had an Oyster Navy? Better yet,…
Vince Brooks
Vince BrooksAugust 5, 2024
Breaking News for Virginia Chronicle! Newspapers

Breaking News for Virginia Chronicle!

Several new newspapers were added to Virginia Chronicle in May, bringing the newspaper page count to over 4.3 million! Recent additions include community weeklies, additional…
Kelley Ewing
Kelley EwingJuly 31, 2024
New Books – July 2024 The StacksVirginia Authors

New Books – July 2024

The Library of Virginia's first-floor lobby and Exhibition Gallery are open Monday-Saturday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The second-floor Reading Rooms are open Tuesday-Friday, 9:00…
Donna Pletcher
Donna PletcherJuly 29, 2024
Distributing the Law Archives

Distributing the Law

Recently I came across a collection from the Secretary of the Commonwealth that was still folded and in its original boxes. It seems that no…
Renee Savits
Renee SavitsJuly 24, 2024
Records Rooms Road Trips: Day Tripping Through May ArchivesConservationThe Stacks

Records Rooms Road Trips: Day Tripping Through May

Regular readers of The Uncommonwealth may notice that blogs for Records Rooms Road Trips are published about every three weeks, alternating between the experiences of…
Tracy Harter
Tracy HarterJuly 22, 2024
The Impact of the Act to Preserve Racial Integrity on Virginia’s Indigenous Tribes ArchivesEducation & Programming

The Impact of the Act to Preserve Racial Integrity on Virginia’s Indigenous Tribes

March 20, 1924, is a moment in Virginia’s history when the governor, the General Assembly, state officials, and some in the general public believed that…
Ashley Craig
Ashley CraigJuly 17, 2024
Finding Connections in African American Genealogy: The Bressie Family of Norfolk County Archives

Finding Connections in African American Genealogy: The Bressie Family of Norfolk County

The Library of Virginia, like many similar institutions, has seen a large uptick in genealogical researchers interested in tracing their lines to Black families before…
Kevin Shupe
Kevin ShupeJuly 15, 2024
The Wrong Deed Archives

The Wrong Deed

A common refrain in real estate is location, location, location.  Sometimes however, the name is just as important, especially if the divine is involved. Such…
Sherri Bagley
Sherri BagleyJuly 10, 2024
Quiet Spaces in Loud Places Public Libraries

Quiet Spaces in Loud Places

Roughly 20% of the population is neurodivergent, meaning that over 6,000 individuals in Halifax County, Virginia, have a neurodivergent condition. These children and adults had…
Guest Contributor
Guest ContributorJuly 8, 2024
Unfinished Business from the Bicentennial of Independence Left to the 250th Anniversary ArchivesEducation & Programming

Unfinished Business from the Bicentennial of Independence Left to the 250th Anniversary

I went to work in the Virginia State Library (now the Library of Virginia) on July 1, 1974, in the capacity of an assistant to…
Brent Tarter
Brent TarterJuly 5, 2024
“We Can Do It.”: Women Who Served in World War II ArchivesDigital Projects

“We Can Do It.”: Women Who Served in World War II

Watch some fireworks and turn on the barbeques, but let’s also celebrate by highlighting Virginia women veterans of World War II, helping protect our country…
Lauren Caravati
Lauren CaravatiJuly 3, 2024
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