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Virginia Untold: Requisitions for Public Use Archives

Virginia Untold: Requisitions for Public Use

This is the third in a series of blog posts on the record types found in the forthcoming Library of Virginia research database: Virginia Untold: The…
Greg Crawford
Greg CrawfordJanuary 20, 2016
Virginia Untold: Certificates of Importation American Anti-Slavery SocietyArchives

Virginia Untold: Certificates of Importation

This is the second in a series of blog posts on the record types found in the forthcoming Library of Virginia research database: Virginia Untold: The…
Greg Crawford
Greg CrawfordJanuary 13, 2016
Virginia Untold: Freedom Suits ArchivesDigital Projects

Virginia Untold: Freedom Suits

This is the first in a series of blog posts on the record types found in the forthcoming Library of Virginia research database: Virginia Untold: The…
Chris Smith
Chris SmithJanuary 6, 2016
Happy Holidays from Out of the Box! The Stacks

Happy Holidays from Out of the Box!

Season’s Greetings from all of us at Out of the Box. We’re taking a holiday break, but enjoy the photos below from the U.S. Army…
Library of Virginia
Library of VirginiaDecember 23, 2015
Happy Holidays from the VNP and the Rappahannock Record Newspapers

Happy Holidays from the VNP and the Rappahannock Record

The Virginia Newspaper Project is excited to announce that digitized issues of the Rappahannock Record from 1925-1958 are now available on Virginia Chronicle. Published in Kilmarnock, Virginia…
Kelley Ewing
Kelley EwingDecember 22, 2015
An “Arena of a Spirited Intellectual Tournament.” Herbert Ezekiel’s Jewish South Newspapers

An “Arena of a Spirited Intellectual Tournament.” Herbert Ezekiel’s Jewish South

Published weekly in Richmond, Virginia, from 1893 through at least 1899, save for a five-month period in 1896, the Jewish South professed itself “a journal devoted to…
Library of Virginia
Library of VirginiaDecember 17, 2015
A Knight Unlike Any Other: John Mitchell Jr. & The Knights of Pythias Archives

A Knight Unlike Any Other: John Mitchell Jr. & The Knights of Pythias

While processing Nottoway County chancery causes several years ago, Local Records Archivist Louise Jones came across a most unusual item fastening several papers together:  a…
Sarah Nerney
Sarah NerneyDecember 16, 2015
Radio Days: The Norfolk News Index and A Posting From the Electric Front, 1939-1940 Newspapers

Radio Days: The Norfolk News Index and A Posting From the Electric Front, 1939-1940

Seventy-five years ago, the media landscape was not nearly so vast, not nearly so individualized. An electronic device was not on your person, it was…
Henry Morse
Henry MorseDecember 11, 2015
Modern Love: Two Wrights and a Wrong Archives

Modern Love: Two Wrights and a Wrong

Many a modern day love rat has been outed by a spouse’s discovery of telling photos posted to Facebook or illicit text messages. But what…
Vince Brooks
Vince BrooksDecember 9, 2015
Attention Enquiring Minds! Richmond Enquirer now available on Virginia Chronicle Newspapers

Attention Enquiring Minds! Richmond Enquirer now available on Virginia Chronicle

The Virginia Newspaper Project is happy to announce additions to the growing list of newspapers available on Virginia Chronicle, the Library of Virginia’s free, searchable digital newspaper database. Now,…
Kelley Ewing
Kelley EwingDecember 3, 2015
A Disregard of Freedom: Burwell versus Pilson’s Administrators Archives

A Disregard of Freedom: Burwell versus Pilson’s Administrators

What does it mean to be free? Some might define freedom as having no obligations to a particular thing or person. A free person cannot…
Sherri Bagley
Sherri BagleyDecember 2, 2015
"We Give Thanks for Thanksgiving" Manuscripts & Special Collections

"We Give Thanks for Thanksgiving"

As a holiday, Thanksgiving has a long history in Virginia. Arguably the first Day of Thanksgiving intended to serve as an annual holiday was celebrated…
Claire Radcliffe
Claire RadcliffeNovember 25, 2015
The Art of Mapping War Manuscripts & Special Collections

The Art of Mapping War

New ideas are sometimes birthed out of tragedies. In 1864, President Abraham Lincoln signed a bill passed by both houses of Congress authorizing an ambitious…
Joanne Porter
Joanne PorterNovember 18, 2015
Blood Brothers: the Virginia World War II Separation Notices Archives

Blood Brothers: the Virginia World War II Separation Notices

In observance of Veteran’s Day, Out of the Box would like to spotlight the Virginia World War II Separation Notices (accession 23573). Part of the records of…
Roger Christman
Roger ChristmanNovember 11, 2015
Horrible Butcheries at Wilmington—The Richmond Planet’s coverage of the 1898 insurrection in Wilmington, North Carolina Newspapers

Horrible Butcheries at Wilmington—The Richmond Planet’s coverage of the 1898 insurrection in Wilmington, North Carolina

On November 10, 1898, in response to the election of a biracial Fusionist government, a group of white Democrats in Wilmington, North Carolina organized a mob, attacking…
Anne McCrery
Anne McCreryNovember 10, 2015
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