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Equal Suffrage League of Virginia Records are coming to Making History: Transcribe Archives

Equal Suffrage League of Virginia Records are coming to Making History: Transcribe

The Library of Virginia is excited to make the records of the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia available in Making History: Transcribe. As part of…
Mari Julienne
Mari JulienneAugust 21, 2019
Grants Awarded to Circuit Courts for Records Preservation Conservation

Grants Awarded to Circuit Courts for Records Preservation

The Circuit Court Records Preservation Program (CCRP) Grant Review Board met on 26 July 2019 at the Library of Virginia to consider records preservation grant requests…
Greg Crawford
Greg CrawfordAugust 14, 2019
Money Money Money: Running Up Student Debts in Brunswick County Archives

Money Money Money: Running Up Student Debts in Brunswick County

The start of August brings with it the excitement and anticipation of numerous young men and women as they prepare for their first year in…
Tracy Harter
Tracy HarterAugust 7, 2019
St. Catherine’s School Newspapers on Virginia Chronicle 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 Rogers
Kyle RogersAugust 7, 2019
Four Hundredth Anniversary of the Founding of the General Assembly of Virginia Education & Programming

Four Hundredth Anniversary of the Founding of the General Assembly of Virginia

The first meeting of the General Assembly of Virginia took place at the church building in Jamestown on 30 July 1619. The session lasted for…
Brent Tarter
Brent TarterJuly 30, 2019
Out of Character: A Middlesex County Divorce Suit Archives

Out of Character: A Middlesex County Divorce Suit

Inviting a man of the cloth to live in your home seems like it should be a good idea. You might expect a resident clergyman…
Sherri Bagley
Sherri BagleyJuly 24, 2019
The Kindness of Strangers: A Story From the Montgomery County Chancery Causes Archives

The Kindness of Strangers: A Story From the Montgomery County Chancery Causes

The bedrock of the Library of Virginia’s chancery causes collection is the personal story. While most causes share similar documents, topics, and resolutions, each story…
Callie Freed
Callie FreedJuly 3, 2019
A Few of Our Favorite Things: Letterhead in the Archives, Great Seal Edition Archives

A Few of Our Favorite Things: Letterhead in the Archives, Great Seal Edition

The design of the Seal of the Commonwealth of Virginia was adopted by the Virginia Convention on 5 July 1776, based on the work of…
Vince Brooks
Vince BrooksJune 26, 2019
Glimpses of History: Henrico County Court Order Books Archives

Glimpses of History: Henrico County Court Order Books

As we have often seen in this blog, even the driest local records can lead to the most interesting stories. Such is the case with…
Tracy Harter
Tracy HarterJune 19, 2019
Stealing Freedom: The Fairfax Slave Who Liberated Himself and His Son 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 Rogers
Kyle RogersJune 13, 2019
A Virginian, a Tomahawk, & the American Revolution in the Old West Manuscripts & Special Collections

A Virginian, a Tomahawk, & the American Revolution in the Old West

Editor’s Note: The Library of Virginia, in partnership with Virginia Humanities, sponsors residential fellows during the academic year to conduct in-depth research in the Library’s collections. Gregory…
Guest Contributor
Guest ContributorJune 12, 2019
“These are the Men Who Took the Cliffs”: Virginians on D-Day Manuscripts & Special Collections

“These are the Men Who Took the Cliffs”: Virginians on D-Day

Seventy-five years ago today, Allied forces landed on the Normandy beaches of France, launching the invasion that would push the Nazis out of France and…
Claire Radcliffe
Claire RadcliffeJune 6, 2019
D-Day 75th Anniversary – The Bedford Boys 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 Rogers
Kyle RogersJune 5, 2019
Strike! The Covington Pioneer Newspapers

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 Ewing
Kelley EwingMay 23, 2019
The Man Who Killed Richard Whichello: A Henrico County Legend Archives

The Man Who Killed Richard Whichello: A Henrico County Legend

At the end of the 1962 John Ford classic The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, a reporter remarks, “When the legend becomes fact, print the…
Vince Brooks
Vince BrooksMay 22, 2019
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