While working on a project involving the Middlesex County Chancery Causes, I noticed a case that was filled with scandal and intrigue. Middlesex Chancery Cause,…
Mary Dean CarterSeptember 30, 2015
September 2015 marks the ten year anniversary of web archiving at the Library of Virginia. In the fall of 2005, the Library partnered with the…
Roger ChristmanSeptember 23, 2015
Life for African Americans in Virginia following the end of the Civil War can be described as uncertain at best. As the social balance between…
Chris SmithSeptember 16, 2015
On September 16, the Library will be taking your questions for our third year of Ask a Curator Day. You’ll be able ask curators from…
Claire RadcliffeSeptember 11, 2015
This week marks the start of the NFL’s regular season. In honor of the return of football, this week’s blog post spotlights an unusual discovery…
Claire RadcliffeSeptember 9, 2015
It’s September 16, 1873 in the sleepy town of Staunton, Virginia. You can only imagine a reader’s excitement at turning to page three of the Staunton…
Kelley EwingSeptember 2, 2015
This is the eleventh 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 ChristmanSeptember 2, 2015
This is the tenth 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 ChristmanAugust 27, 2015
The Virginia Newspaper Project is happy to announce new additions to the Library of Virginia’s Virginia Chronicle. The number of historical newspaper pages available on…
Kelley EwingAugust 25, 2015
It’s been a while, but as promised in a previous post, here’s another look at some of the plethora of letterheads and stationery found in our…
Claire RadcliffeAugust 19, 2015
Founded in 1882 by Captain Stephen Roszel Donohoe, the Democratically-affiliated Fairfax Herald was published weekly in Fairfax, Virginia, where it served as the area’s dominant newspaper for…
Anne McCreryAugust 14, 2015
Recently I was approving some transcriptions done by our virtual Library volunteers on the Making History: Transcribe website and came across a collection of letters written by…
Renee SavitsAugust 12, 2015
Editor’s note: This blog post marks the close of the grant-funded Montgomery County chancery processing project (in Civil War terms, the “Last Dispatch”). Thanks to generous support by…
Scott GardnerAugust 5, 2015
Emblematic of Cold War era America, these anti-socialist advertisements for the Virginia Electric and Power Company appear in issues of the Fairfax Herald from the 1950s.…
Anne McCreryAugust 3, 2015
