For March 2023, the Common Ground Virginia History Book Group is exploring the history of Southern baking with Rebecca Sharpless’s Grain and Fire. Sharpless explores…
Library of VirginiaFebruary 20, 2023
December 26, 1902 was, by all appearances, a slow news day for the Staunton Spectator and Vindicator. The Virginia newspaper featured such prosaic headlines as…
Rebecca SchneiderFebruary 6, 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
This is the third (and final) in a series of blog posts Jenna Gabriel wrote as part of her work as an extern in State…
Jenna GabrielJanuary 11, 2023
Behind the wheel of a stripped-down Ford Model T sits a daring race driver with wind-tousled hair, posed in front of a crowd of young…
Kevin ShupeDecember 19, 2022
When the 22nd FIFA Men’s World Cup competition commenced on November 20, 2022, in Qatar, you knew. With a flood of internet, TV, radio, and…
Angela LehmanDecember 14, 2022
In 1962, Andy Warhol, by then well known for his screen prints emphasizing iconic images of American commercialism, began a series highlighting another type of…
Anne McCreryNovember 16, 2022
Thanksgiving is right around the corner. I am sure some people are thinking about gathering together with family and friends around a big table where…
Amanda MorrellNovember 7, 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
As the Library of Virginia approaches its bicentennial next year, it is a good time to reflect on what collections the Library holds but also…
Library of VirginiaOctober 21, 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
Globally and locally, whether pregnant women have the right to choose who attends them during pregnancy and birth is a lively and often contentious topic.…
D'Anne GrahamJune 8, 2022
Wondering when to plant timothy grass? Want to learn more about Percherons? Need help with profitable wheat growing? Getting dairy cows ready to show? For…
Kelley EwingMay 11, 2022
Author's Note: The spellings of names evolved over time. In order to be consistent, names were spelled as they appeared in government records.1 On Tuesday,…
Cara GriggsMay 2, 2022
