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Timber Ridge Presbyterian Church, Rockbridge County, Va

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Jailing the Jerkers

Editor’s Note: The Library of Virginia, in partnership with the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, sponsored four residential fellows for the 2016-2017 academic year to conduct in-depth research…

Guest ContributorJune 21, 2017

Jacket of Application for Pardon of James Gibson, Charles Tosh

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“A Frolicsome Freak of Boyhood”

Editor’s Note: The Library of Virginia, in partnership with the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, sponsored four residential fellows for the 2016-2017 academic year to…

Guest ContributorJune 7, 2017

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The Razor’s Edge: Using the Coroner’s Inquests in Elizabeth City County

Editor’s Note: Jerry Hunt is a graduate history intern from Virginia Commonwealth University and is working on processing and indexing Depression-era coroner’s inquisitions from Elizabeth…

Guest ContributorAugust 6, 2014

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Violence in Danville: Preservation of a Civil Rights Legacy

Editor’s Note: On Sunday 4 February 2013, the Richmond Times-Dispatch ran a front page article on the 1963 Danville civil rights demonstrations. The Library of Virginia has…

Guest ContributorFebruary 5, 2013

Manuscripts & Special Collections

Maybe we can learn from doodles…

Guest contributor Tricia Noel joins us to share an interesting discovery left by an anonymous artist on some New Kent County church records. Although they…

Guest ContributorSeptember 7, 2011

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Local Editorial Contemplates Smyth County’s Cohabitation Register

Editor's Note: The following editorial is reprinted here courtesy of the Smyth County News & Messenger. It originally ran 28 July 2010. A team from…

Guest ContributorAugust 9, 2010