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The Ginter Park Citizen: Community-Building at the Community Building Newspapers

The Ginter Park Citizen: Community-Building at the Community Building

Every word committed to stone or paper is temporary. A small newspaper printed by and for a neighborhood community association in 1923 has a bleak…
Billy Bearden
Billy BeardenAugust 4, 2025
The Legality Around a Remarkably Painful Societal Issue Archives

The Legality Around a Remarkably Painful Societal Issue

On November 21, 1910, Roxie Annie Bauers (née Bumgarner) lost her life in a tragic murder-suicide at the Lewis Hotel in Detroit (now known as…
Callie Freed
Callie FreedJuly 30, 2025
New Books – July 2025 Virginia Authors

New Books – July 2025

The Library of Virginia's first-floor lobby and Exhibition Gallery are open Monday-Saturday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The second-floor Reading Rooms are open Tuesday-Friday, 9:00…
Jessi Bennett
Jessi BennettJuly 28, 2025
Of ‘Maters and Mayo: Hot Tomato Summer and the History of Duke’s Manuscripts & Special CollectionsNewspapers

Of ‘Maters and Mayo: Hot Tomato Summer and the History of Duke’s

It’s that special time of year, when it’s too dang hot to do anything but sit back and enjoy a tomato sandwich. And what’s a…
Sonya Coleman
Sonya ColemanJuly 25, 2025
How to Become a Lawyer in Virginia Archives

How to Become a Lawyer in Virginia

Practicing law in Virginia has not always been a straightforward process. The Virginia Board of Bar Examiners was established by an act of the General…
Renee Savits
Renee SavitsJuly 23, 2025
How the Bicycle Boom of the 1970s Prepared the Way for the Bikecentennial Newspapers

How the Bicycle Boom of the 1970s Prepared the Way for the Bikecentennial

Fifty years ago, a front page photograph in the February 28, 1974 issue of Southwest Times, published in Pulaski, Virginia, showed Dr. David Stanley, a…
Guest Contributor
Guest ContributorJuly 16, 2025
Hikers’ Corner at the Waynesboro Public Library Public Libraries

Hikers’ Corner at the Waynesboro Public Library

The Waynesboro Public Library is located just three miles from the Appalachian Trail, placing us in a unique position to support thru-hikers traveling the nearly…
Guest Contributor
Guest ContributorJuly 14, 2025
Copy That!: Reproducing Documents in the Pre-Digital Age The Stacks

Copy That!: Reproducing Documents in the Pre-Digital Age

One of the little things that anyone born in the last 60 years has come to take for granted is the ease and convenience of…
Vince Brooks
Vince BrooksJuly 9, 2025
Oh Say, Can You Sing? Newspapers

Oh Say, Can You Sing?

"Difficult, impossible, and beautiful” is how The Star-Spangled Banner, our national anthem, was described in a 1986 USA Today Opinion piece.1 It is a long-held…
Jessi Bennett
Jessi BennettJuly 2, 2025
New Books – June 2025 The StacksVirginia Authors

New Books – June 2025

The Library of Virginia's first-floor lobby and Exhibition Gallery are open Monday-Saturday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The second-floor Reading Rooms are open Tuesday-Friday, 9:00…
Jessi Bennett
Jessi BennettJune 30, 2025
Freed From the Archives: The Life of Emanuel Jones of Surry Archives

Freed From the Archives: The Life of Emanuel Jones of Surry

In January 2025, Mr. Thomas Baxter reached out to Virginia Untold Project Manager Lydia Neuroth to share about research he had conducted on an enslaved…
Guest Contributor
Guest ContributorJune 25, 2025
Rolling into Richmond Newspapers

Rolling into Richmond

When you work with old newspapers, to say you stumble across a lot of bizarre stories is an understatement. Headlines like “Dog Shoots Man,” and…
Kelley Ewing
Kelley EwingJune 18, 2025
Picturing Family Manuscripts & Special Collections

Picturing Family

Editor’s Note: A version of this article first appeared in Broadside, the magazine of the Library of Virginia, Issue No. 1, 2024. Whether displayed on household…
Dale Neighbors
Dale NeighborsJune 11, 2025
Until Freedom Comes: Newport News Public Library’s Black History Exhibit Public Libraries

Until Freedom Comes: Newport News Public Library’s Black History Exhibit

On Juneteenth 2021, the Newport News Public Library unveiled a local history exhibit titled Until Freedom Comes: The African American Experience in Newport News, viewable…
Guest Contributor
Guest ContributorJune 9, 2025
The Denim Decade Digital Projects

The Denim Decade

In early 1971 students in Nansemond County petitioned the school board to change the dress code, specifically that "the female students be allowed to wear…
Jessi Bennett
Jessi BennettJune 4, 2025
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