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LVA Partners with American Experience to Populate the Abolitionist Map of America: Interactive Map Explores the Legacy of the Anti-Slavery Movement

How did views on slavery evolve in the decades leading up to the Civil War? What different concerns did Quakers, soldiers, and revolutionaries express about…

Sonya ColemanJanuary 8, 2013

Newspapers

Playing it Safe With The Safety News

The most recent Ebay acquisition for the Library of Virginia’s newspaper collection is the Safety News of Omar, West Virginia. Published “monthly for employees of the West Virginia Coal…

Kelley EwingJanuary 3, 2013

The Stacks

Happy Holidays from the Editors

The editors are taking some time off for the holidays. We’ll see you next year! In the meantime, checkout our letter to Santa post and a…

Library of VirginiaDecember 21, 2012

Archives

All I Want For Christmas Is…

On 16 December 1895, 12-year-old Mamie M. Yates wrote a letter to Santa Claus. It read: Dear Santa Claus, I will write to you to…

Greg CrawfordDecember 19, 2012

Newspapers

Happy Holidays from the Virginia Newspaper Project

Similar to our friends at the Mecklenburg Times in 1941, above, the Virginia Newspaper Project is taking some time off for the holidays. Best wishes to…

Silver PersingerDecember 19, 2012

Archives

The Legacy of Virginia State Senator William B. Hopkins

Former Virginia state Senator William B. Hopkins Sr. died on 11 December 2012 at the age of 90. During World War II, Hopkins joined the…

Roger ChristmanDecember 17, 2012

Newspapers

The more things change, well, the more things change.

If you need proof, simply compare today’s copy of the Richmond Times-Dispatch to an issue of The North American, a newspaper published in Philadelphia in the late…

Errol SomayDecember 14, 2012

Education & Programming Manuscripts & Special Collections The Stacks

New resource for Civil War research at the Library of Virginia

The Civil War experiences of Virginians from all walks of life and all corners of the state can be found at the Library of Virginia.…

Trenton HizerDecember 14, 2012

Archives

“Woke Up Election Day”: The Virginia Electoral College

On 6 November 2012, Barack Obama and Joe Biden were re-elected President and Vice President of the United States. Or were they? As we all…

Roger ChristmanDecember 12, 2012

Archives

The Correct Answer Is, "I Do"

At first glance the story of George Kiner and Diana Bumgardner is one of love triumphing over the tragedies of slavery and war. But documents…

Bari HelmsDecember 5, 2012

Digital Projects Newspapers

Virginia Farm Bureau News Goes Digital

The article below was published in the Fall 2012 issue of the Library of Virginia’s Broadside. Check out Broadside for all things LVA related. . . In a welcome…

Errol SomayDecember 4, 2012

Newspapers

Newly Established Union Newspaper in Richmond on the Assassination of Lincoln

The Library of Virginia does have the Saturday, April 15, 1865 issue of The Richmond Whig, but the paper made no mention of the assassination…

Silver PersingerNovember 29, 2012

Photos of Virginia Lee Minor and Robert B. Roosevelt Jr.

Manuscripts & Special Collections

"I really love you in my funny selfish way"

You have no idea how awfully much I hated to leave you…Even if I can’t hear from you just now I feel sure you are…

Jessica Tyree BurgessNovember 28, 2012

Newspapers

Eye Witness Account of Lincoln’s Assassination and Funeral Preparations

From the Richmond Times dated April 21, 1865, Volume 1, Number 1. The first edition of this newly established newspaper was published a full week after…

Silver PersingerNovember 21, 2012

Newspapers

Newspaper Accounts on the Death of Lincoln

With the renewed interest in President Abraham Lincoln due to Steven Spielberg’s latest movie, I thought it would be interesting to take a look at…

Silver PersingerNovember 19, 2012