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Reading between the lines: the Comstock Act and ads for the treatment of “female complaints” from the Fairfax Herald. Newspapers

Reading between the lines: the Comstock Act and ads for the treatment of “female complaints” from the Fairfax Herald.

If you read a newspaper from the late 19th century, you’re liable to be bombarded by various medical advertisements—treatments for catarrh, scrofula, and “watery-blood;” cure-alls like…
Anne McCrery
Anne McCreryJuly 29, 2015
VIRGINIA’S CCRP PROGRAM PROVIDES ALMOST A MILLION DOLLARS FOR PRESERVATION GRANTS ArchivesConservationThe Stacks

VIRGINIA’S CCRP PROGRAM PROVIDES ALMOST A MILLION DOLLARS FOR PRESERVATION GRANTS

The Circuit Court Records Preservation Program (CCRP) Grant Review Board met on 11 June 2015 at the Library of Virginia to consider records preservation grant requests…
Greg Crawford
Greg CrawfordJuly 27, 2015
Be True to Your School Newspapers

Be True to Your School

Question: What do the following five quotes have in common? Answer: They are all quotes taken from high school newspapers. And while academic newspapers cover topics…
Kelley Ewing
Kelley EwingJuly 24, 2015
Not Black and White, But Different Shades of Gray Archives

Not Black and White, But Different Shades of Gray

With examples dating back to the 1750s, Norfolk County chancery causes offer an interesting set of solutions to some of the myriad problems associated with…
Callie Freed
Callie FreedJuly 22, 2015
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
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