In celebration of Women's History Month, the Library of Virginia is excited to announce that the records of the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia are…
Mari JulienneMarch 1, 2023
In 1966, Charles City County was the kind of place that big city newspapers found easy to overlook. Entirely rural, with an estimated population of…
Angela LehmanFebruary 1, 2023
It's a new year, and Virginia Untold has a new look!Starting today, when you go to www.virginiamemory.com/collections/aan, you’ll see our new landing page, which offers…
Lydia NeurothJanuary 4, 2023
We continue to process more records from the Richmond City Hustings Court as a part of our NHPRC grant for Virginia Untold. As we do…
Lydia NeurothNovember 30, 2022
So you just burned through half an hour on Google’s FrightGeist where you found out that rabbits, pigs, and Jennifer’s Body costumes are among the…
Angela LehmanOctober 31, 2022
The past few months have seen some great progress on our NHPRC grant for our Virginia Untold project so we thought we’d share a few…
Lydia NeurothOctober 26, 2022
Virginia Chronicle, the Library of Virginia’s digital newspaper database, has reached an impressive milestone, surpassing 3,000,000 pages!Recently added to the growing list of digitized Virginia…
Kelley EwingOctober 19, 2022
Each fall, high school students search for a “room of their own.” They seek out places away from teachers and parents where they can process…
Jessi BennettOctober 17, 2022
When Liza Mundy’s book Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II was published in October 2017, one…
Library of VirginiaSeptember 23, 2022
Next month, the Common Ground History Book Group, LVA’s virtual non-fiction book club, will return for a discussion with Kathryn Miles, author of Trailed: One…
Library of VirginiaAugust 26, 2022
Summer 2022 marked the first cohort of the Transforming the Future of Libraries & Archives Internship Program. With great excitement and anticipation, we welcomed six…
Sonya ColemanAugust 22, 2022
The Library of Virginia is pleased to announce that digital images for the Albemarle County (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1768-1850, are now available online through the…
Library of VirginiaAugust 17, 2022
This is a series introducing LVA employees and exploring what they do day-to-day. If you are interested in what goes on behind the scenes entries…
Vince BrooksAugust 15, 2022
In 2018, we shared a blog post detailing the World War I experience of James P. Spencer, a Black soldier in the 370th Infantry of…
Jessi BennettJuly 6, 2022
