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Cats are a Job Requirement: 7 Questions with Wendy Hupp

This is a series introducing LVA employees and exploring what they do day-to-day. If you are interested in what goes on behind the scenes entries…

Vince BrooksNovember 16, 2020

Education & Programming

Virginia in Jeopardy!

In memory of Alex Trebek we would like to start your weekend off with some actual questions (ahem...answers) about Virginia from Jeopardy! Just hover your…

Library of VirginiaNovember 13, 2020

Manuscripts & Special Collections

“Banded together for civic betterment”: The Virginia League of Women Voters

With the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment and the achievement of woman suffrage, the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia closed down its operations in the…

Mari JulienneNovember 11, 2020

Education & Programming Manuscripts & Special Collections

Unfinished Business: How Young is Too Young to Vote?

The 26th Amendment, the last in a series of amendments which expanded constitutional protection for voting rights, provided that “the right of citizens of the…

Catherine Fitzgerald WyattNovember 9, 2020

Election Daze: How Long Do Our Elections Really Take?

In this year's election, nearly 2.8 million of the commonwealth’s approximately 5.9 million registered voters voted early or by mail-in ballot. Having voted before the…

Vince BrooksNovember 6, 2020

Education & Programming

Unfinished Business: Indigenous Voters in Virginia

This blog post is being written on the lands of Virginia’s Indigenous people, Cheroenhaka (Nottoway), Chickahominy, East Chickahominy, Mattaponi, Monacan, Nansemond, Nottoway, Pamunkey, Patawomeck, Upper…

Ashley CraigNovember 4, 2020

Archives Education & Programming Manuscripts & Special Collections

“A day of triumph and dignity”: Virginia Women Vote in 1920

Virginia women went to the polls for the first time on 2 November 1920, a cool and cloudy day across the commonwealth. After the Nineteenth…

Mari JulienneNovember 2, 2020

Education & Programming

Unfinished Business: Disenfranchisement of People Currently or Formerly Incarcerated in Virginia

CONTENT WARNING: Materials in the Library of Virginia’s collections contain historical terms, phrases, and images that are offensive to modern readers. These include demeaning and…

Emma ItoOctober 30, 2020

What’s Your Excuse? : 1793 Mecklenburg County Election Excuses

With election season upon us, a recent find in Local Records seems particularly timely. While exploring a box of unprocessed Mecklenburg County records, archivists noticed…

Tracy HarterOctober 29, 2020

Manuscripts & Special Collections

Unfinished Business: The Fate of the Equal Rights Amendment

Although woman suffrage became part of the Constitution with the passage of the 19th Amendment, thousands of men and women in the United States were…

Claire RadcliffeOctober 28, 2020

Virginia Authors

New Books – October 2020

The Library of Virginia is now open by appointment only. During this initial reopening phase, researchers will be able to use the collections by appointment…

Donna PletcherOctober 26, 2020

Education & Programming

Happy Archives Month, Virginia!

Though Virginia Archives Month arrives every autumn, there is truly no season of the year where you cannot find an archival item or collection to…

Sonya ColemanOctober 9, 2020

Manuscripts & Special Collections

An Unusual Tool in Wartime

Like many collections in the Library of Virginia’s holdings, the Yount Family Papers (Acc. 52191) include wartime correspondence between family members at home in Virginia…

Samantha WayOctober 7, 2020

Manuscripts & Special Collections

Random Reference: Monkeying Around at the Library of Virginia

Who doesn’t like a great photo of a queen and a giant peanut, with a couple of monkeys thrown in for good measure? I know…

Amanda MorrellOctober 5, 2020

Digital Projects

Happy Birthday To Us!

On September 25, 2019 the UncommonWealth Blog (the combination of our previously two separate blogs, Fit-to-Print and Out of the Box) was born! We couldn't…

Library of VirginiaOctober 2, 2020