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Facing Our History, Forging Our Future

George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. Ahmaud Arbery. Jacob Berryman. Cato. Dinah. Three names from current headlines. Three names from Virginia’s history found in our records.Their names,…

Library of VirginiaJune 11, 2020

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Happy Holidays 2018 from Out of the Box!

The editors and contributors to Out of the Box would like to wish you all a happy and peaceful holiday season. We'll take a couple…

Library of VirginiaDecember 21, 2018

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From Virginia Chronicle, One Century Ago: Three Dailies & Four Weeklies Report the End of the Great War

Library of VirginiaNovember 9, 2018

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Happy Holidays from Out of the Box!

Season’s Greetings from all of us at Out of the Box. We’re taking a holiday break, but enjoy the photos below from the U.S. Army…

Library of VirginiaDecember 23, 2015

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An “Arena of a Spirited Intellectual Tournament.” Herbert Ezekiel’s Jewish South

Published weekly in Richmond, Virginia, from 1893 through at least 1899, save for a five-month period in 1896, the Jewish South professed itself “a journal devoted to…

Library of VirginiaDecember 17, 2015

Archives Digital Projects

"Nothing but…"

The Runkle family of Greene County, Virginia, had seven children, among them three sons who all served in the Confederate army. The Civil War 150 Legacy…

Library of VirginiaDecember 3, 2014

Digital Projects

"Half way across the river"

Robert Cromwell (1838-1918) was a Union soldier serving in the 10th Illinois Infantry Regiment, Company A. For several months during the spring and summer of 1864…

Library of VirginiaNovember 4, 2014

Digital Projects

A "Passport for Any-Where"

Recently I stumbled upon one of the more interestingly-worded government documents that I have ever encountered. Housed in the papers of Confederate soldier G.B. Lamar,…

Library of VirginiaSeptember 24, 2014

Digital Projects

Wartime musings on God and nature

In my work for the Civil War 150 Legacy Project, I recently came across the diary of Aquilla Peyton (1837-1875). A private in the Confederate Army,…

Library of VirginiaAugust 27, 2014

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Dwight D. Sunderlin, 1944-2014

Our valued colleague in the Imaging Services Section, Dwight Sunderlin, passed away on February 8 after a brief illness. He will be laid to rest…

Library of VirginiaMay 16, 2014

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Happy Holidays from the Editors

The editors are taking some time off for the holidays. We’ll see you next year! In the meantime, checkout our letter to Santa post and a…

Library of VirginiaDecember 21, 2012

Archives Digital Projects

Loudoun County Chancery Now Available Online!

Did you ever wonder where “Egypt” was in Loudoun County or how the Civil War affected the settlement of estates when legatees lived outside of…

Library of VirginiaApril 21, 2011