I went to work in the Virginia State Library (now the Library of Virginia) on July 1, 1974, in the capacity of an assistant to…
Brent TarterJuly 5, 2024
Visitors to the Library of Virginia's exhibition, We Demand: Women's Suffrage in Virginia, have been drawn to a large display of index cards filled with…
Brent TarterSeptember 30, 2020
After founding the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia in November 1909, eager suffragists had managed to organize a few local leagues, but in 1912 the…
Brent TarterMay 13, 2020
Ed. Note: The health and safety of our visitors, employees, volunteers, and community are top priorities at the Library of Virginia. To help contain the…
Brent TarterMarch 25, 2020
In June 1919, Congress sent the proposed Nineteenth Amendment, guaranteeing women's right to vote, to the states for ratification. By the end of the year,…
Brent TarterFebruary 12, 2020
The first meeting of the General Assembly of Virginia took place at the church building in Jamestown on 30 July 1619. The session lasted for…
Brent TarterJuly 30, 2019
During the night of 23 April 1829, six African American men made a daring escape from the Norfolk County jail. One of them was William…
Brent TarterMarch 6, 2019
The official enrolled parchment of 16 January 1786, An Act for Establishing Religious Freedom, is one of the most important archival records preserved in the…
Brent TarterApril 13, 2016
A small slip of paper on display in the Library of Virginia’s latest exhibition You Have No Right: Law and Justice in Virginia, running 24 September 2012-18…
Brent TarterSeptember 26, 2012
Editor’s Note: Guest contributor Brent Tarter offers the following post, pointing out some interesting finds made by the creators of the Library of Virginia’s Union or Secession exhibition.…
Brent TarterMarch 30, 2011
