The first meeting of the General Assembly of Virginia took place at the church building in Jamestown on 30 July 1619. The session lasted for…
Brent TarterJuly 30, 2019
Love history? Love to travel? The Virginia History Trails app is for you! Developed by the 2019 Commemoration, American Evolution, in collaboration with the Library…
John DealFebruary 27, 2019
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…
Richard KopleyJanuary 16, 2019
If you have visited the Library of Virginia in recent months, you may have noticed several new exhibit cases on the building’s second floor. These…
Mary Dean CarterJune 8, 2018
True Sons of Freedom, a photographic exhibition at the Library of Virginia, explores the stories of Virginia's African American World War I soldiers. More than…
Claire RadcliffeJanuary 17, 2018
Occasionally, we ask guest writers to share information or stories about researching in our collections, public library programming or activities, and other topics which Library…
Guest ContributorSeptember 20, 2017
Libraries and the people that staff them, fund them, and use them have a long history of civic engagement—they’re involved in their communities and make…
Sonya ColemanMay 25, 2017
From the earliest days of European settlement, Americans drank prodigious amounts of alcohol. Almost every aspect of early American economic and social life involved alcohol.…
Dana PugaMay 18, 2017
In conjunction with the Library of Virginia’s current exhibition, Teetotalers & Moonshiners: Prohibition in Virginia, the Virginia Newspaper Project has made its sole issue of…
Kelley EwingMay 5, 2017
It was Wet vs. Dry and City vs. Country and Dry Country won. It wasn’t even close. The advocates for Prohibition themselves might have been…
Henry MorseApril 11, 2017
Professor Patrick H. Breen, author of The Land Shall be Deluged in Blood: A New History of the Nat Turner Revolt, spoke at the Virginia…
Errol SomayNovember 21, 2016
The Virginia Newspaper Project would like to give a big thank you to those who transcribed the Petersburg Classical Institute manuscript newspapers on the Library…
Kelley EwingOctober 28, 2016
Every year, seemingly on cue, nature gets the message that we’ve had enough heat and humidity. October dawns and the mornings get crisper, the leaves…
Vince BrooksOctober 5, 2016
The current exhibit at the Library of Virginia, First Freedom: Virginia’s Statute for Religious Freedom, explores the meaning and evolution of this significant legislation. Written…
Kelley EwingAugust 3, 2016
