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Education Is A Virtue: Patrick County Chancery Causes ArchivesDigital Projects

Education Is A Virtue: Patrick County Chancery Causes

A lack of education and a trusting heart caused many minorities to lose their property in the early 20th century. A perfect example is the case…
Sherri Bagley
Sherri BagleyJuly 15, 2015
Newsies! Not the Movie! Newspapers

Newsies! Not the Movie!

Richmond’s Style Weekly published an engaging cover story about “Children of the Streets of Richmond, 1865-1920,” a book recently published by local writer, Harry Ward.We’ll let…
Errol Somay
Errol SomayJuly 13, 2015
Hampton Roads Group Features Kaine Emails in Open Government “Hack-a-Thon” ArchivesDigital ProjectsEducation & Programming

Hampton Roads Group Features Kaine Emails in Open Government “Hack-a-Thon”

Editor’s Note:  This article first appeared in the July 2015 Library of Virginia Newsletter. One of the Library of Virginia’s newest online collections was recently hacked,…
Susan Gray Page
Susan Gray PageJuly 8, 2015
Remaking Virginia: “To Secure Justice for Ourselves” ArchivesEducation & Programming

Remaking Virginia: “To Secure Justice for Ourselves”

This is the fourth in a series of four blog posts concerning post-Civil War Virginia and the lives of freedpeople after Emancipation. The posts precede the…
Mari Julienne
Mari JulienneJuly 1, 2015
Remaking Virginia: A New Labor System ArchivesEducation & Programming

Remaking Virginia: A New Labor System

This is the third in a series of four blog posts concerning post-Civil War Virginia and the lives of freedpeople after Emancipation. The posts precede…
Greg Crawford
Greg CrawfordJune 24, 2015
Kaine Email Project @LVA: Oliver Hill ArchivesDigital Projects

Kaine Email Project @LVA: Oliver Hill

This is the ninth in a series of posts spotlighting recently released email from Governor Tim Kaine’s administration.  These posts are not meant to be comprehensive but to…
Roger Christman
Roger ChristmanJune 22, 2015
Jacob Yoder and Educating Virginia’s Freedpeople after the Civil War Education & ProgrammingManuscripts & Special Collections

Jacob Yoder and Educating Virginia’s Freedpeople after the Civil War

This is the second in a series of four blog posts concerning post-Civil War Virginia and the lives of freedpeople after Emancipation. The posts precede…
Joseph M. Thompson
Joseph M. ThompsonJune 17, 2015
"There is yet enough left of the old barbarism of slavery": Violence in Post-Emancipation Virginia ArchivesEducation & Programming

"There is yet enough left of the old barbarism of slavery": Violence in Post-Emancipation Virginia

This is the first in a series of four blog posts concerning post-Civil War Virginia and the lives of freedpeople after Emancipation. The posts precede…
Gregg Kimball
Gregg KimballJune 10, 2015
American Pharoah: Will he Make it a Dozen? Newspapers

American Pharoah: Will he Make it a Dozen?

The last of the Triple Crown’s three stakes races will be run at Belmont Park tomorrow.  In the history of the Triple Crown, its winners…
Kelley Ewing
Kelley EwingJune 5, 2015
A Wedding, a Death, and a Pension: Charles and Sarah Butler’s Story Archives

A Wedding, a Death, and a Pension: Charles and Sarah Butler’s Story

Portsmouth, Virginia, occupied by the Union army, was the scene of a wedding in November 1863.  The happy couple was Charles “Charley” Butler, a private…
Bill Bynum
Bill BynumJune 3, 2015
“Lafayette, we are here!” Archives

“Lafayette, we are here!”

Twenty years ago, a small group of businessmen and former diplomats conceived a plan to build an authentic replica of the French frigate Hermione, the…
Sandra Treadway
Sandra TreadwayMay 27, 2015
The Conscientious Objector: Desmond T. Doss Archives

The Conscientious Objector: Desmond T. Doss

In keeping with Out of the Box’s recent anniversary theme, today’s post spotlights Lynchburg native Desmond T. Doss (1919-2006), the first conscientious objector to receive…
Roger Christman
Roger ChristmanMay 21, 2015
The Princess Anne Times 1915-1918: Boosting the Beach Newspapers

The Princess Anne Times 1915-1918: Boosting the Beach

Of historical anniversaries noted large and small, what follows is of the second type and left unremarked, if not here within this very blog.  Last…
Henry Morse
Henry MorseMay 20, 2015
From Small Things (Big Things One Day Come): Five Years of Out of the Box Digital Projects

From Small Things (Big Things One Day Come): Five Years of Out of the Box

Anniversaries have been a theme in recent entries on Out of the Box. Today’s post is no exception.  May 14 is the 5th anniversary of…
Roger Christman
Roger ChristmanMay 13, 2015
Happy Mother’s Day from the Virginia Newspaper Project Newspapers

Happy Mother’s Day from the Virginia Newspaper Project

The Virginia Newspaper Project wishes mothers everywhere a very happy Mother's Day.The idea for a Mother's Day was originally conceived by Anna Jarvis, after her…
Kelley Ewing
Kelley EwingMay 10, 2015
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