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Nat Turner Re-examined Education & Programming

Nat Turner Re-examined

Professor Patrick H. Breen, author of The Land Shall be Deluged in Blood: A New History of the Nat Turner Revolt, spoke at the Virginia…
Errol Somay
Errol SomayNovember 21, 2016
The Virginia Newspaper Project on TV, Live, and in Print NewspapersThe Stacks

The Virginia Newspaper Project on TV, Live, and in Print

On October 28, 2016, a WTVR story aired about the Virginia Newspaper Project’s very own, Errol Somay. Greg McQuade, investigative reporter and history buff, visited…
Errol Somay
Errol SomayNovember 16, 2016
Mug Shot Monday: John Henry Green, No. 44916 Archives

Mug Shot Monday: John Henry Green, No. 44916

This is the latest entry in a series of posts highlighting inmate photographs in the records of the Virginia Penitentiary. John Henry Green, known as the…
Roger Christman
Roger ChristmanNovember 14, 2016
Three Elections That Remade Virginia Manuscripts & Special Collections

Three Elections That Remade Virginia

Editor’s note: Tomorrow is Election Day! Get out and vote! This blog post was written by Senior Manuscripts Archivist Trenton Hizer, adapted from a talk…
Trenton Hizer
Trenton HizerNovember 7, 2016
Dry Voters, Wet Drinkers: The Anniversary of Virginia’s Prohibition ArchivesManuscripts & Special CollectionsNewspapers

Dry Voters, Wet Drinkers: The Anniversary of Virginia’s Prohibition

Today marks the hundredth anniversary of the first day of Virginia’s state-wide prohibition. To see more about the build-up to the referendum that dried up…
Claire Radcliffe
Claire RadcliffeNovember 1, 2016
Settling the Liquor Question: The 1914 Referendum and Prohibition in Virginia Archives

Settling the Liquor Question: The 1914 Referendum and Prohibition in Virginia

Talk about spooky! Although the 18th Amendment didn’t institute nation-wide prohibition in the U.S. until January 1920, Virginia banned alcohol at the stroke of midnight on…
Claire Radcliffe
Claire RadcliffeOctober 31, 2016
Transcribe Postscript: Big Thanks to All of Those Who Helped Transcribe the PCI Newspapers! Digital ProjectsEducation & ProgrammingNewspapers

Transcribe Postscript: Big Thanks to All of Those Who Helped Transcribe the PCI Newspapers!

The Virginia Newspaper Project would like to give a big thank you to those who transcribed the Petersburg Classical Institute manuscript newspapers on the Library…
Kelley Ewing
Kelley EwingOctober 28, 2016
57 Channels (And Nothin’ On)? Governor Tim Kaine’s YouTube Channel Videos Released ArchivesDigital Projects

57 Channels (And Nothin’ On)? Governor Tim Kaine’s YouTube Channel Videos Released

The Library of Virginia is pleased to announce a new digital collection:  Governor Tim Kaine’s YouTube Channel Videos, 2008-2010. Accessible as a playlist from the…
Roger Christman
Roger ChristmanOctober 26, 2016
Now on Transcribe: the Manuscript Newspapers of Petersburg Classical Institute Digital Projects

Now on Transcribe: the Manuscript Newspapers of Petersburg Classical Institute

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software does the amazing work of converting newspaper type into searchable text, but the task of making hand written documents searchable…
Kelley Ewing
Kelley EwingOctober 22, 2016
No Retreat No Surrender? Not so Much: Yorktown Day Manuscripts & Special Collections

No Retreat No Surrender? Not so Much: Yorktown Day

Yorktown Day marks the anniversary of the 19 October 1781 surrender of British forces to General George Washington ending the Revolutionary War. To celebrate, the…
Cassandra Farrell
Cassandra FarrellOctober 19, 2016
Portraits of a Prophet: 100 Years of Nat Turner in Print Newspapers

Portraits of a Prophet: 100 Years of Nat Turner in Print

CONTENT WARNING: Materials in the Library of Virginia’s collections contain historical terms, phrases, and images that are offensive to modern readers. These include demeaning and…
Kelley Ewing
Kelley EwingOctober 13, 2016
"Nat’s War": The Southampton Slave Rebellion of 1831 ArchivesThe Stacks

"Nat’s War": The Southampton Slave Rebellion of 1831

On 23 August 1831, Governor John Floyd received a hastily written note from the Southampton County postmaster stating “that an insurrection of the slaves in…
Sonya Coleman
Sonya ColemanOctober 12, 2016
ThroTTle is Here. Newspapers

ThroTTle is Here.

It is said that companies from Apple, Amazon, and Google to Disney and Harley Davidson began in a garage. For the alternative journal, ThroTTle, it…
Errol Somay
Errol SomayOctober 7, 2016
October Is Pumpkin-Spice Archives Month ArchivesEducation & ProgrammingManuscripts & Special Collections

October Is Pumpkin-Spice Archives Month

Every year, seemingly on cue, nature gets the message that we’ve had enough heat and humidity. October dawns and the mornings get crisper, the leaves…
Vince Brooks
Vince BrooksOctober 5, 2016
‘It’s a Southern Sun That Shines Down on This Yankee Boy’: The E. L. Molineux Collection Digital ProjectsManuscripts & Special Collections

‘It’s a Southern Sun That Shines Down on This Yankee Boy’: The E. L. Molineux Collection

The Edward L. Molineux collection, 1861-1915, was scanned as part of the CW150 Legacy Project and recently added to the Library of Virginia’s Transcribe web site.…
Renee Savits
Renee SavitsSeptember 28, 2016
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