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Virginia’s Minorities in World War II: Armenian American Soldiers & the History of MENA Immigration Archives

Virginia’s Minorities in World War II: Armenian American Soldiers & the History of MENA Immigration

My internship is with the Digital Initiatives & Web Presence division of the Library of Virginia, a department responsible for the Library’s digital collections and…
Maria Habibi
Maria HabibiAugust 22, 2025
Fugitive Data Portraits: Self-Emancipation in Virginia Digital ProjectsEducation & Programming

Fugitive Data Portraits: Self-Emancipation in Virginia

Richard Slaughter was born on January 9, 1849, on Eppes Island in City Point, Virginia. He and his family were enslaved by Richard Eppes until…
Tev'n Powers
Tev'n PowersAugust 20, 2025
House to Highway: Reclaiming a Community History Education & Programming

House to Highway: Reclaiming a Community History

House to Highway: Reclaiming a Community History (July 17, 2025 – February 28, 2026) highlights the history of Richmond’s Jackson Ward neighborhood and explores the…
Ashley Craig
Ashley CraigAugust 18, 2025
“A Fashionable Suit of Tar and Feathers” Education & Programming

“A Fashionable Suit of Tar and Feathers”

One August day in 1775, Anthony Warwick found himself surrounded by a group of patriots angered by his refusal to stop importing and selling British…
Mari Julienne
Mari JulienneAugust 13, 2025
Samuels Public Library’s Party of the Year Public Libraries

Samuels Public Library’s Party of the Year

What can I say about A Taste for Books? At Samuels Public Library in Warren County, Virginia, it's more than a fundraiser — it’s the…
Your Local Public Librarian
Your Local Public LibrarianAugust 11, 2025
Banditti of Brothers: Irregulars and Plunderers During the Revolution ArchivesNewspapers

Banditti of Brothers: Irregulars and Plunderers During the Revolution

During armed conflicts, there are some participants who recognize the opportunities for ill-gotten gains. In the upheaval of the American Revolution, combatants from both sides…
Vince Brooks
Vince BrooksAugust 6, 2025
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…
Your Local Public Librarian
Your Local Public LibrarianJuly 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
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