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Kaine Email Project @ LVA: Tim Butcher’s Hurricane Katrina Story

This is the eleventh in a series of posts spotlighting recently released email from Governor Tim Kaine’s administration. These posts are not meant to be comprehensive but to…

Roger ChristmanSeptember 2, 2015

Archives Digital Projects

Kaine Email Project @LVA: 10th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina

This is the tenth in a series of posts spotlighting recently released email from Governor Tim Kaine’s administration. These posts are not meant to be comprehensive but to…

Roger ChristmanAugust 27, 2015

A Few of Our Favorite Things: Letterhead in the Archive Part 4

It’s been a while, but as promised in a previous post, here’s another look at some of the plethora of letterheads and stationery found in our…

Claire RadcliffeAugust 19, 2015

Archives Digital Projects

Howdy!: The Letters of John R. Morris

Recently I was approving some transcriptions done by our virtual Library volunteers on the Making History: Transcribe website and came across a collection of letters written by…

Renee SavitsAugust 12, 2015

Archives Conservation

Montgomery County in the Civil War

Editor’s note: This blog post marks the close of the grant-funded Montgomery County chancery processing project (in Civil War terms, the “Last Dispatch”). Thanks to generous support by…

Scott GardnerAugust 5, 2015

Archives Digital Projects

Sometimes You DO Find a Needle in a Haystack: The Augusta Co. Cohabitation Register

Cohabitation registers are among the most important genealogical resources for African-Americans attempting to connect their family lines back through the murky past to their enslaved…

Sarah NerneyJuly 29, 2015

Archives Conservation The Stacks

VIRGINIA’S CCRP PROGRAM PROVIDES ALMOST A MILLION DOLLARS FOR PRESERVATION GRANTS

The Circuit Court Records Preservation Program (CCRP) Grant Review Board met on 11 June 2015 at the Library of Virginia to consider records preservation grant requests…

Greg CrawfordJuly 27, 2015

Not Black and White, But Different Shades of Gray

With examples dating back to the 1750s, Norfolk County chancery causes offer an interesting set of solutions to some of the myriad problems associated with…

Callie FreedJuly 22, 2015

Archives Digital Projects

Education Is A Virtue: Patrick County Chancery Causes

A lack of education and a trusting heart caused many minorities to lose their property in the early 20th century. A perfect example is the case…

Sherri BagleyJuly 15, 2015

Archives Digital Projects Education & Programming

Hampton Roads Group Features Kaine Emails in Open Government “Hack-a-Thon”

Editor’s Note: This article first appeared in the July 2015 Library of Virginia Newsletter. One of the Library of Virginia’s newest online collections was recently hacked,…

Susan Gray PageJuly 8, 2015

Archives Education & Programming

Remaking Virginia: “To Secure Justice for Ourselves”

This is the fourth in a series of four blog posts concerning post-Civil War Virginia and the lives of freedpeople after Emancipation. The posts precede the…

Mari JulienneJuly 1, 2015

Archives Education & Programming

Remaking Virginia: A New Labor System

This is the third in a series of four blog posts concerning post-Civil War Virginia and the lives of freedpeople after Emancipation. The posts precede…

Greg CrawfordJune 24, 2015

Archives Digital Projects

Kaine Email Project @LVA: Oliver Hill

This is the ninth in a series of posts spotlighting recently released email from Governor Tim Kaine’s administration. These posts are not meant to be comprehensive but to…

Roger ChristmanJune 22, 2015

Archives Education & Programming

"There is yet enough left of the old barbarism of slavery": Violence in Post-Emancipation Virginia

This is the first in a series of four blog posts concerning post-Civil War Virginia and the lives of freedpeople after Emancipation. The posts precede…

Gregg KimballJune 10, 2015

A Wedding, a Death, and a Pension: Charles and Sarah Butler’s Story

Portsmouth, Virginia, occupied by the Union army, was the scene of a wedding in November 1863. The happy couple was Charles “Charley” Butler, a private…

Bill BynumJune 3, 2015