April is a special time of year: the first full month of Spring; the beginning of baseball season (Hallelujah!) and the month designated as Poetry…
Errol SomayApril 26, 2019
The following titles are now on Virginia Chronicle:Virginia Beach WeeklyThe Musical Advocate and Singer’s FriendAlexandria Daily Gazette, Commercial & PoliticalAlexandria Gazette & Daily AdvertiserAlexandria Gazette,…
Kelley EwingApril 5, 2019
Recently, while researching a totally unrelated topic in the Richmond Times Dispatch, I stumbled upon an intriguing article from Dec. 2, 1928 titled, “Ninth Woman…
Kelley EwingMarch 8, 2019
And we're not talking about Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio! In advance of our soon to be released new and improved Titanic web site and…
Errol SomayFebruary 14, 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
Richmond's John Marshall High and its outstanding student newspaper, the Monocle, have had a lot to be proud of over the years and a recent…
Kelley EwingOctober 17, 2018
What’s true of most conferences was true of ours last week in Washington: An opportunity to share a common language with people of the same mission…
Henry MorseOctober 4, 2018
On February 19, 1887, the Afro-American Churchman published an obituary for Reverend Samuel V. Berry. From this entry, we learn how Rev. Berry received his…
Kim BowmanSeptember 5, 2018
As the start of the K-12 school year looms, and college students gear up for their fall semester, the Library of Virginia peers back at…
Kyle RogersAugust 14, 2018
In recognition of the centennial anniversary of the Allies' victory in World War I, the Newspaper Project remembers the "Queens of the Spy World Whose…
Kyle RogersAugust 1, 2018
Recently, the Library of Virginia acquired two Baptist newspapers, the Primitive Baptist and the Tazewell Baptist, both from Tazewell, Virginia. The two papers share more…
Kelley EwingJuly 23, 2018
Virginia Chronicle has surpassed a major milestone: 1,000,000 pages! Thanks to grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, agreements with publishers, cooperative projects, generous…
Kelley EwingJuly 9, 2018
As part of an ongoing effort to give voice to nineteenth-century African Americans through digital projects like Virginia Untold and Virginia Chronicle, the Virginia Newspaper…
Kyle RogersJune 26, 2018
