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Black Businesses in Antebellum Virginia Archives

Black Businesses in Antebellum Virginia

During the antebellum period in Virginia, enslaved men and women who gained their freedom did have the potential to enter into their own business and…
Robert Hines
Robert HinesJuly 15, 2020
The Pandemic Pivot Public Libraries

The Pandemic Pivot

Public libraries are nothing if not resourceful. We’ve done it for centuries, moving from a space which required a membership to being a place for…
Reagen Thalacker
Reagen ThalackerJuly 13, 2020
Transferring Knowledge: An Audio-Visual Digitization Internship Digital ProjectsThe Stacks

Transferring Knowledge: An Audio-Visual Digitization Internship

In the fall semester of 2019, which seems like years ago these days, I was lucky enough to wrap up my MLIS program with an…
Ben Steck
Ben SteckJuly 8, 2020
Finding Family in Transcribe Archives

Finding Family in Transcribe

This is an entry in our “Random Reference” series, which features interesting discoveries made and reference questions answered by our Archives & Library Reference Services…
Bill Bynum
Bill BynumJuly 6, 2020
What’d I Miss?: Diving Deeper into the History Behind Hamilton Education & Programming

What’d I Miss?: Diving Deeper into the History Behind Hamilton

While Lin Manuel Miranda’s blockbuster musical hit Hamilton takes some artistic liberties with our American Colonial past, there is a lot of history packed into…
Library of Virginia
Library of VirginiaJuly 1, 2020
A Book List on Racism and Resistance in Virginia History Education & Programming

A Book List on Racism and Resistance in Virginia History

Evidence of the past appears in many forms. We find history in manuscript records, old newspapers, artifacts in a plowed field. But history is also…
Rebecca Schneider
Rebecca SchneiderJune 29, 2020
Early Albemarle County Judgments to be Transcribed and Placed on Virginia Untold ArchivesDigital Projects

Early Albemarle County Judgments to be Transcribed and Placed on Virginia Untold

For those who enjoy the art and intricacy of transcribing historical documents, the Library of Virginia is pleased to announce that a selection of Albemarle…
Tracy Harter
Tracy HarterJune 24, 2020
New Books – June 2020 Virginia Authors

New Books – June 2020

At the time of this posting, we remain closed to the public as part of the effort to contain the spread of COVID-19. However, these…
Donna Pletcher
Donna PletcherJune 22, 2020
Why Juneteenth? Newspapers

Why Juneteenth?

In mid-October of 1899, Richmond's Black Community prepared to have a three day celebration of the Emancipation Proclamation complete with a large downtown parade. The Richmond…
Jessi Bennett
Jessi BennettJune 19, 2020
“Woman Suffrage — The Vanguard of Socialism” ArchivesEducation & ProgrammingManuscripts & Special Collections

“Woman Suffrage — The Vanguard of Socialism”

"DANGER! WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE THE VANGUARD OF SOCIALISM" blared a broadside published around 1913 by the Virginia Association Opposed to Woman's Suffrage. It warned women that…
John Deal
John DealJune 17, 2020
“It’s Usually the Dungeons and Dragons that takes people by surprise”: 7 Questions with Emeline Alexander seven questionsThe Stacks

“It’s Usually the Dungeons and Dragons that takes people by surprise”: 7 Questions with Emeline Alexander

This is one in a series of blog entries introducing LVA employees and exploring what they do day-to-day. These posts are collected under the tag…
Vince Brooks
Vince BrooksJune 15, 2020
Facing Our History, Forging Our Future ArchivesDigital ProjectsNewspapers

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 Virginia
Library of VirginiaJune 11, 2020
“Freedom, justice and true democracy”: The Virginia Branch of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage ArchivesEducation & Programming

“Freedom, justice and true democracy”: The Virginia Branch of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage

Thousands of Virginia women joined the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia to fight for their voting rights after it was organized in 1909. A few…
Mari Julienne
Mari JulienneJune 10, 2020
“Physically distant but still connected”: Public Library Programming During Quarantine Public Libraries

“Physically distant but still connected”: Public Library Programming During Quarantine

Recent global circumstances have forced us all to change and adapt quickly. It is hard to adapt to a new situation without information, but libraries…
Jessi Bennett
Jessi BennettJune 8, 2020
Signed, Sealed and Proved: The Last Will and Testament of Robert, 7th Lord Fairfax Archives

Signed, Sealed and Proved: The Last Will and Testament of Robert, 7th Lord Fairfax

This entry is part of our new "Random Reference" series, which features interesting discoveries made and reference questions answered by our Archives & Library Reference…
Dawn Tinnell
Dawn TinnellJune 1, 2020
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