Kevin Shupe – The UncommonWealth

Finding Connections in African American Genealogy: The Bressie Family of Norfolk County

The Library of Virginia, like many similar institutions, has seen a large uptick in genealogical researchers interested in tracing their lines to Black families before…

Kevin ShupeJuly 15, 2024

Manuscripts & Special Collections Newspapers

At the Races

Behind the wheel of a stripped-down Ford Model T sits a daring race driver with wind-tousled hair, posed in front of a crowd of young…

Kevin ShupeDecember 19, 2022

Archives Virginia Authors

The Mysterious Dr. Howard and the Gunston Hall Scandal of 1894

Nineteenth-century newspapers were often filled with tales of fraud. Stories of credit scams, dubious identities, duplicitous lovers, and a myriad of other reported confidence schemes…

Kevin ShupeDecember 15, 2021

Slavery, Madness, and the 1840 Census

Today we bring you a story in recognition of Census Day, April 1. Learn more about the 2020 United States Census (and submit your response!),…

Kevin ShupeApril 1, 2020

Carpetbagger or Reformer?

In 1871 Massachusetts-born Edward Daniels became the editor of the state’s flagship Republican newspaper, the Daily State Journal. He had moved to Virginia just three…

Kevin ShupeOctober 24, 2018