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The Musical Million: The Ruebush-Kieffer Company, Singing Schools, and the Birth of Southern Gospel Manuscripts & Special Collections

The Musical Million: The Ruebush-Kieffer Company, Singing Schools, and the Birth of Southern Gospel

The close of the American Civil War brought two young men back to a devastated Shenandoah Valley and an uncertain future. Aldine Silliman Kieffer had…
Gregg Kimball
Gregg KimballDecember 3, 2018
A Greensville County Fixer Upper Archives

A Greensville County Fixer Upper

Greensville County Chancery Cause Pierce R. Farley VS Benjamin D. Tiller, etc., 1886–007 tells the tale of a business deal gone sour. With echoes of…
Louise Jones
Louise JonesNovember 28, 2018
“If They Consent to Leave Them Over There”: The European Pilgrimages of World War I Mothers and Widows From Virginia Archives

“If They Consent to Leave Them Over There”: The European Pilgrimages of World War I Mothers and Widows From Virginia

Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in slightly altered form in the Summer 2001 issue of “Virginia Cavalcade.” The images are taken from two private…
Mary Clark
Mary ClarkNovember 21, 2018
Before the Doughboys: American Volunteers in the Great War, 1914-1918 Archives

Before the Doughboys: American Volunteers in the Great War, 1914-1918

Ed. note: In honor of Veterans Day (observed), we have a guest post from Brexton O’Donnell, Tour Counselor, Virginia World War I and World War…
Guest Contributor
Guest ContributorNovember 12, 2018
"We Will Remember Them": Eleven Virginians in the Great War Archives

"We Will Remember Them": Eleven Virginians in the Great War

One hundred years ago, on “the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month,” representatives of Germany and the Allied forces met in…
Claire Radcliffe
Claire RadcliffeNovember 11, 2018
From Virginia Chronicle, One Century Ago: Three Dailies & Four Weeklies Report the End of the Great War Newspapers

From Virginia Chronicle, One Century Ago: Three Dailies & Four Weeklies Report the End of the Great War

Library of Virginia
Library of VirginiaNovember 9, 2018
Chasing Steeples through WWI France Manuscripts & Special Collections

Chasing Steeples through WWI France

The Library of Virginia’s Visual Studies Collection has a collection of German postcards depicting non-combat scenes from the Western Front. Schaar & Dathe of Trier…
Sonya Coleman
Sonya ColemanNovember 9, 2018
“Legislative Debutantes”: 95 Years of Women in Virginia’s House of Delegates Archives

“Legislative Debutantes”: 95 Years of Women in Virginia’s House of Delegates

In 2018 a record number of women took their seats in Virginia's House of Delegates, bringing the total number of women who have served in…
Mari Julienne
Mari JulienneNovember 6, 2018
Once Upon a Midnight Dreary… The Stacks

Once Upon a Midnight Dreary…

Happy Halloween! And what would Halloween be without Virginia's very own master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe? Check out these illustration from different editions…
Claire Radcliffe
Claire RadcliffeOctober 31, 2018
Carpetbagger or Reformer? Archives

Carpetbagger or Reformer?

In 1871 Massachusetts-born Edward Daniels became the editor of the state’s flagship Republican newspaper, the Daily State Journal. He had moved to Virginia just three…
Kevin Shupe
Kevin ShupeOctober 24, 2018
Early 20th Century Entertainment Comes to Virginia in a Most Unusual Way Archives

Early 20th Century Entertainment Comes to Virginia in a Most Unusual Way

In the spring of 1905, a half-mile from the Norfolk city limits, the Boer War Spectacle (also called the Transvaal Spectacle or Anglo-Boer War Historical…
Callie Freed
Callie FreedOctober 24, 2018
Library Makes New Batch of Emails from Governor Timothy M. Kaine Administration Available Online ArchivesDigital Projects

Library Makes New Batch of Emails from Governor Timothy M. Kaine Administration Available Online

The Library of Virginia is pleased to announce the release of 26,988 emails from the administration of Gov. Timothy M. Kaine (2006-2010). This latest batch…
Roger Christman
Roger ChristmanOctober 18, 2018
A Talent at the Starting Gate: Nell Blaine and the Monocle Newspapers

A Talent at the Starting Gate: Nell Blaine and the Monocle

Richmond's John Marshall High and its outstanding student newspaper, the Monocle, have had a lot to be proud of over the years and a recent…
Kelley Ewing
Kelley EwingOctober 17, 2018
Assembling The Digital Page: Team VNP Attends National Digital Newspaper Program Conference In DC Newspapers

Assembling The Digital Page: Team VNP Attends National Digital Newspaper Program Conference In DC

What’s true of most conferences was true of ours last week in Washington:  An opportunity to share a common language with people of the same mission…
Henry Morse
Henry MorseOctober 4, 2018
Andy Warhol Comes to Richmond Archives

Andy Warhol Comes to Richmond

In early 1978, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts was a stop for the traveling exhibition “Athletes by Andy Warhol.” The exhibition, comprised of silk-screen…
Nathan Verilla
Nathan VerillaOctober 3, 2018
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