New Market, established 1796 in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley and settled largely by German Lutherans and Mennonites, was home to Our Church Paper, a Lutheran weekly published…
Natalie DraperJune 26, 2013
I would like to introduce you to the Mountain Laurel, a unique paper from Meadows of Dan, Virginia. The Mountain Laurel warned readers that it would “not…
Natalie DraperMarch 29, 2013
The Fall of 1918 saw the end of World War I and hundreds of thousands in America dead from a influenza pandemic that was sweeping…
Natalie DraperMarch 5, 2013
Dueling, a trend that emerged in the middle ages as a way to settle disputes among European nobility, persisted among members of the American press,…
Natalie DraperFebruary 11, 2013
The Critic was a weekly society paper bringing “news, society, drama, and history” to Richmond from September 1887 to December 1890. The paper entertained its readers…
Natalie DraperJanuary 17, 2013
