College Newspapers – The UncommonWealth

Newspapers

New to Virginia Chronicle!

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

Digital Projects Newspapers

New Titles on Virginia Chronicle

Virginia Chronicle, the Library of Virginia’s freely accessible digital newspaper database, has recently added a notable assortment of new titles, including school newspapers, labor newspapers,…

Kelley EwingFebruary 8, 2023

Newspapers

The Beautiful Game in Virginia: The Rise of Soccer

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

Newspapers

Devoted to the Industrial Classes of the South: The Southern Workman on Virginia Chronicle

Along with a list of many new newspapers, a nearly complete run of the Southern Workman, a monthly published from 1872-1939 by the Hampton Normal…

Kelley EwingMarch 25, 2022

Newspapers

A Talent at the Starting Gate: Nell Blaine and the Monocle

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

Newspapers

Virginia Chronicle and Chronicling America

If you read this blog, you might know that the Virginia Newspaper Project (VNP) contributes digitized newspapers to two websites, Chronicling America and Virginia Chronicle.…

Olin JohnsonMay 7, 2018

Newspapers

The Casket and The Institute Jewel

Located in Suffolk, Virginia and chartered in 1881, the Suffolk Female Institute was run by Misses Sallie Finney in what had once been the Central…

Kelley EwingMay 20, 2014

Newspapers

Anti-Liquor, College, and Charlottesville papers donated to LVA

Recently, the Library of Virginia received generous gifts of historical Virginia newspapers from the Tennessee State Library and Archives and Christopher Newport University.The Tennessee State Library and…

Kelley EwingAugust 17, 2012