Anne McCrery – The UncommonWealth

Happy Birthday, Edna Lewis

“…the asparagus and wild greens and quail and tomatoes on the vines and little peas in spring and half runners in early summer and all…

Anne McCreryApril 16, 2025

Manuscripts & Special Collections Newspapers Virginia Authors

“Authors of all four sexes:” Hunter Stagg, The Reviewer, and Richmond’s Literary Renaissance

A new pop-up exhibit near the circulation desk at the Library of Virginia looks at the hidden history of LGBTQ+ Virginia 100 years ago. One…

Anne McCreryNovember 22, 2023

Newspapers

Death and Disaster in the Bull Mountain Bugle

In 1962, Andy Warhol, by then well known for his screen prints emphasizing iconic images of American commercialism, began a series highlighting another type of…

Anne McCreryNovember 16, 2022

Newspapers

His pistols within his reach: the volatile history of the Examiner

The Examiner, published semi-weekly in Richmond, Virginia from 1798 to 1804, held a prominent place in the incendiary world of early American politics. An organ for…

Anne McCreryApril 13, 2016

Newspapers

Horrible Butcheries at Wilmington—The Richmond Planet’s coverage of the 1898 insurrection in Wilmington, North Carolina

On November 10, 1898, in response to the election of a biracial Fusionist government, a group of white Democrats in Wilmington, North Carolina organized a mob, attacking…

Anne McCreryNovember 10, 2015

Newspapers

A History of the Fairfax Herald

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

Newspapers

Seeing the light of capitalism–Virginia Electric and Power Company ads in the McCarthy era.

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

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 McCreryJuly 29, 2015