Editor’s Note: A version of this article first appeared in Broadside, the magazine of the Library of Virginia, Summer 2008. Approached by MGM to record a…
Don GunterFebruary 16, 2022
The close of the American Civil War brought two young men back to a devastated Shenandoah Valley and an uncertain future. Aldine Silliman Kieffer had…
Gregg KimballDecember 3, 2018
When Mollie Durango Does the Irish Tango from the March 7, 1915 issue of the Richmond Times Dispatch https://youtu.be/td-8tJ-t5L4
Kelley EwingMarch 17, 2016
Welcome to Mug Shot Monday! This is the latest entry in a series of posts highlighting inmate mug shots in the records of the Virginia Penitentiary. In April…
Roger ChristmanOctober 10, 2011
Editor’s Note: The short scene linked below from Downton Abbey, part of PBS’s Masterpiece, though an English period drama, is set only weeks after the trial…
Dale DulaneyJuly 27, 2011
