Today is National Squirrel Appreciation Day. While the clever little rodents are ubiquitous in urban and suburban settings today, that was not always so. According…
This northern Shenandoah Valley county is named for John Page, Governor of Virginia from 1802-1805. Land from Rockingham and Shenandoah counties created the county in…
The Circuit Court Records Preservation Program (CCRP) Grant Review Board met on 16 December 2021 at the Library of Virginia to consider records preservation grant…
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…
Editor’s Note: The Library of Virginia, in partnership with Virginia Humanities, sponsors residential fellows during the academic year to conduct in-depth research in the Library’s collections.…
The Division of Motion Picture Censorship existed as a section of the Department of Law (now the Office of the Attorney General) from 1922-1966. Originally…
From its exterior, the Leesburg United Methodist Church, Loudoun County, Virginia, appears to be like any other church building scattered across the country. However, a…
The Library of Virginia is pleased to announce that the Warwick County Chancery Causes, 1860-1912, are available online through the Chancery Records Index on Virginia…
As the original inhabitants and caretakers of the land known today as Virginia, the influence of indigenous communities on the land, history, and culture of…