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Poe, Richmond, and the Universe Education & ProgrammingNewspapersVirginia Authors

Poe, Richmond, and the Universe

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…
Richard Kopley
Richard KopleyJanuary 16, 2019
The Elephant in the Room: Artificial Intelligence Used to Process Governor Tim Kaine’s E-mails ArchivesDigital Projects

The Elephant in the Room: Artificial Intelligence Used to Process Governor Tim Kaine’s E-mails

Editor's Note: This article first appeared in Fall 2018 issue of Broadside, the quarterly magazine of the Library of Virginia. How do you eat an elephant?…
Susan Gray Page
Susan Gray PageJanuary 9, 2019
Happy Holidays 2018 from Out of the Box! The Stacks

Happy Holidays 2018 from Out of the Box!

The editors and contributors to Out of the Box would like to wish you all a happy and peaceful holiday season. We'll take a couple…
Library of Virginia
Library of VirginiaDecember 21, 2018
Those Who Served, Those Who Fell: War and the Yearbook Digital ProjectsManuscripts & Special Collections

Those Who Served, Those Who Fell: War and the Yearbook

As the holiday season comes and goes, our thoughts turn to those who are away from home and those who will never see home again.…
Rose Schooff
Rose SchooffDecember 19, 2018
Season’s Greetings and More! Manuscripts & Special Collections

Season’s Greetings and More!

Did you know that the Library of Virginia's Visual Studies Collection has a Tumblr page for new acquisitions? It is called LOOK WHAT WE GOT,…
Vince Brooks
Vince BrooksDecember 6, 2018
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
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