In February 1909, an unusual death notice appeared in a monthly magazine. Thirty-six-year-old Elizabeth Neely Warrington of Norfolk, Virginia, had died a few months earlier,…
Rebecca SchneiderAugust 19, 2024
I was fortunate enough to be able to visit family living in the path of totality for the solar eclipse on April 8. The day…
Nathan VerillaJune 3, 2024
When I began processing a portion of the Richmond City Chancery Causes, I did not know the name “Gilbert Hunt.” I had not known about…
Jennifer TaylorMay 15, 2024
As soon as English colonizers established themselves in Virginia, one of their main concerns was the education of Indigenous people. The education implemented by the…
Ashley CraigApril 17, 2024
Earlier this year, several new titles were added to Virginia Chronicle, the Library of Virginia’s digital newspaper database. Among the latest additions are the earliest…
Kelley EwingApril 15, 2024
Archivists recently discovered a previously unknown photograph in some unprocessed Civil War-era state government records. The records concerned President Abraham Lincoln’s April 1865 visit to…
Library of VirginiaApril 1, 2024
Occasionally we have researchers who want to know what fashion was like in a certain place in Virginia during a certain time. It might be…
Ginny DunnMarch 4, 2024
When I received a request to find information in newspapers about a game warden in Wise County during the 1920s, I didn’t expect to find…
Annie HattonFebruary 5, 2024
Virginia Chronicle, the Library of Virginia’s database of digitized newspapers, has reached a page count of nearly 4.2 million! Since October, many new titles, spanning…
Kelley EwingJanuary 10, 2024
A new pop-up exhibit near the circulation desk at the Library of Virginia looks at the hidden history of LGBTQ+ Virginia 100 years ago. One…
Anne McCreryNovember 22, 2023
When discussing the topic of high-quality newspapers in Richmond, Virginia, many titles come to mind, like the Richmond Times-Dispatch and the Richmond News Leader. What…
Elena CarioNovember 15, 2023
Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series of blog posts regarding Virginia female newspaper editors by our Transforming the Future of Libraries and…
Elena CarioOctober 23, 2023
This is a condensed excerpt is from a longer article, "From Berkeley to Beloved: Race and Sexuality in the History of Book Censorship in Virginia”,…
Guest ContributorOctober 6, 2023
"For Love and For Life, We’re Not Going Back.” These words appeared as the banner heading in the October 1987 issue of Richmond Pride above…
Mary Ann Mason, They/ThemSeptember 22, 2023
