Several new newspapers were added to Virginia Chronicle in May, bringing the newspaper page count to over 4.3 million! Recent additions include community weeklies, additional…
Kelley EwingJuly 31, 2024
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
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
The newspaper page count has officially surpassed two million on Virginia Chronicle! An array of new titles have been added to the Library’s growing digital…
Kelley EwingDecember 1, 2021
The Virginia Newspaper Project is happy to announce its collaboration with St. Catherine’s School in Richmond to film and digitize three of the historic school’s newspapers—The…
Kyle RogersAugust 7, 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
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
In 2017, a generous patron of the Library of Virginia donated several issues of the Patrician, the student newspaper of Richmond’s St. Patrick’s School. The…
Kelley EwingMarch 23, 2018
Question: What do the following five quotes have in common? Answer: They are all quotes taken from high school newspapers. And while academic newspapers cover topics…
Kelley EwingJuly 24, 2015
The Virginia Newspaper Project recently added issues to three titles that are currently available on Virginia Chronicle. The Monocle. Peninsula Enterprise. Alexandria Gazette. The added…
Errol SomayNovember 4, 2014
Readers of Fit To Print know of the Newspaper Project’s growing enthusiasm for preservation microfilming and archiving college as well as some high school student…
Henry MorseFebruary 6, 2013
The Virginia Newspaper Project has cataloged over 7,000 newspapers, most of them local dailies and weeklies that you all grew up reading.But the Newspaper Project…
Errol SomaySeptember 10, 2012
While the Library of Virginia’s historical newspaper collection is extensive and varied, it has a genre of newspaper that may be surprising to some: twentieth…
Kelley EwingMay 11, 2012
