What’s true of most conferences was true of ours last week in Washington: An opportunity to share a common language with people of the same mission…
Henry MorseOctober 4, 2018
First, a pre-blog promotional announcement! The Library of Virginia has a booth of its own, 627 in the Farm Bureau Center building, at the Virginia…
Henry MorseOctober 6, 2017
On a Monday, in late May, 1900, a corner of Virginia, under clear skies, experienced not the partial eclipse we’ll experience here in the Commonwealth,…
Henry MorseAugust 18, 2017
It was Wet vs. Dry and City vs. Country and Dry Country won. It wasn’t even close. The advocates for Prohibition themselves might have been…
Henry MorseApril 11, 2017
The Newspaper Project observes Valentine’s Day with a reminder of the search capacity within Virginia Chronicle and the felicities of discovery (spend a morning reading mid…
Henry MorseFebruary 14, 2017
Each year the Newspaper Project receives papers from private collections which are generously offered as archival candidates. Many are duplicates of papers already cataloged. But…
Henry MorseAugust 5, 2016
The iron law of journalism: you can’t pursue civic virtues if you don’t make money. From our digital archive Virginia Chronicle (now at almost 700,000 pages!)…
Henry MorseApril 8, 2016
Seventy-five years ago, the media landscape was not nearly so vast, not nearly so individualized. An electronic device was not on your person, it was…
Henry MorseDecember 11, 2015
This photo was peeled off and expanded from Monterey’s Wiki page and presents to the eye a view likely little changed since the decade of…
Henry MorseOctober 30, 2015
And the Virginia Newspaper Project was there. At Chronicling America‘s start in 2007 as well as today in continuing to provide digitized Virginia imprint newspapers…
Henry MorseOctober 7, 2015
Of historical anniversaries noted large and small, what follows is of the second type and left unremarked, if not here within this very blog. Last…
Henry MorseMay 20, 2015
To review, here’s a newspaper roll call of the five daily newspapers (there were also weekly papers – four of them religious) in Richmond in…
Henry MorseApril 9, 2015
On Monday, April 3, the city burns. The following day Lincoln walks the still smoking ruins and the capital faces occupation by the Federal Army. …
Henry MorseApril 1, 2015
Between 1883 and 1909 six of the seven newspapers that ever claimed Bowling Green as home appeared, and then disappeared, after publishing for no more…
Henry MorseMarch 10, 2015
