On March 25th, we commemorate National Medal of Honor Day, providing an opportunity to explore the stories of the fifteen Virginians who were honored with…
Lauren CaravatiMarch 25, 2024
On December 25, 1955, the Richmond Times-Dispatch ran an article titled “Decline of Penmanship.” An Associated Press piece by Arthur Edson, the article bemoaned “this…
Jessi BennettDecember 18, 2023
The World War II Separation Notices: U.S. Marine Corps collection is now up on From the Page for indexing! This collection debuted this past September…
Lauren CaravatiNovember 8, 2023
So begins the first entry in the oldest surviving volume from the Henrico Parish vestry records. That entry describes the meeting of six of the…
Guest ContributorSeptember 27, 2023
Mob violence against perceived threats to a local community has been a staple of US history, with its long tradition of vigilantism and “popular justice,”…
Guest ContributorSeptember 13, 2023
Since 2017, the Library of Virginia has partnered with Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School (MLWGS) to offer the Making History crowdsourced transcription project to students…
Sonya ColemanMay 3, 2023
We’re excited to announce that we’ve just uploaded new Virginia Untold material to our transcription platform From the Page! This Saturday, October 23, from noon…
Lydia NeurothOctober 20, 2021
In this series we introduce LVA employees and explore what they do day-to-day. If you are interested in what goes on behind the scenes entries…
Vince BrooksJuly 20, 2020
For those who enjoy the art and intricacy of transcribing historical documents, the Library of Virginia is pleased to announce that a selection of Albemarle…
Tracy HarterJune 24, 2020
Stuck at home? Need a project? We’ve got three! These three projects use crowdsourcing to help make historical materials at the Library of Virginia more…
Sonya ColemanMarch 19, 2020
My name is Chloe Staples, and I am from Richmond, Virginia. I am a rising senior at Lynchburg College with a major in United States…
Chloe StaplesAugust 1, 2017
This is the latest entry in a series of blog posts spotlighting stories and records of Virginia’s involvement in World War I. Soon after the United States…
Claire RadcliffeJuly 7, 2017
The Virginia Newspaper Project would like to give a big thank you to those who transcribed the Petersburg Classical Institute manuscript newspapers on the Library…
Kelley EwingOctober 28, 2016
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software does the amazing work of converting newspaper type into searchable text, but the task of making hand written documents searchable…
Kelley EwingOctober 22, 2016