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History in Your Hands: The Smartest Way to Explore 400 Years of History

Love history? Love to travel? The Virginia History Trails app is for you! Developed by the 2019 Commemoration, American Evolution, in collaboration with the Library…

John DealFebruary 27, 2019

Archives Digital Projects The Stacks

Library of Virginia and Virginia Museum of History & Culture Merge Databases of Records of Enslaved Virginians

The Virginia Museum of History & Culture (VMHC) and the Library of Virginia are cooperating to provide greater access to African American history and genealogy…

Greg CrawfordFebruary 21, 2019

Newspapers

A Titanic Love Affair

And we're not talking about Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio! In advance of our soon to be released new and improved Titanic web site and…

Errol SomayFebruary 14, 2019

Manuscripts & Special Collections

Ich Liebe Dich! Vintage Valentines

Happy Valentine’s Day to our Out of the Box readers! Valentine’s Day is perhaps the most critiqued of any holiday for being “made-up,” but as…

Claire RadcliffeFebruary 14, 2019

Archives

From Lancaster to Lunenburg: Betty Chapman’s Story in Virginia Untold

In 1788, the Virginia General Assembly reformed the state judicial courts in order alleviate congestion in the General Court, which had caused unreasonable delays in…

Greg CrawfordFebruary 11, 2019

Archives

The Cost of Freedom: A Campbell County Story

The Campbell County court ordered the sale of Louisa Alexander and her daughter, Eliza, because as enslaved persons, Virginia law considered them part of Louisa’s…

Mary Dean CarterFebruary 6, 2019

Archives Digital Projects

Library Makes New Batch of Emails from Governor Timothy M. Kaine Administration Available Online

The Library of Virginia is pleased to announce the release of 100,343 emails from the administration of Governor Timothy M. Kaine (2006-2010). This latest batch…

Roger ChristmanJanuary 30, 2019

Archives

What a Difference a Day Makes: Serendipity in the Reading Room

The Library of Virginia employs both reference archivists and processing archivists. Reference archivists work exclusively with the public—the Library’s front line. Processing archivists work behind-the-scenes…

Callie FreedJanuary 24, 2019

Education & Programming Newspapers Virginia Authors

Poe, Richmond, and the Universe

Editor's Note: The Library of Virginia, in partnership with Virginia Humanities, sponsors residential fellows during the academic year to conduct in-depth research in the Library's…

Richard KopleyJanuary 16, 2019

Archives Digital Projects

The Elephant in the Room: Artificial Intelligence Used to Process Governor Tim Kaine’s E-mails

Editor's Note: This article first appeared in Fall 2018 issue of Broadside, the quarterly magazine of the Library of Virginia. How do you eat an elephant?…

Susan Gray PageJanuary 9, 2019

The Stacks

Happy Holidays 2018 from Out of the Box!

The editors and contributors to Out of the Box would like to wish you all a happy and peaceful holiday season. We'll take a couple…

Library of VirginiaDecember 21, 2018

Digital Projects Manuscripts & Special Collections

Those Who Served, Those Who Fell: War and the Yearbook

As the holiday season comes and goes, our thoughts turn to those who are away from home and those who will never see home again.…

Rose SchooffDecember 19, 2018

Manuscripts & Special Collections

Season’s Greetings and More!

Did you know that the Library of Virginia's Visual Studies Collection has a Tumblr page for new acquisitions? It is called LOOK WHAT WE GOT,…

Vince BrooksDecember 6, 2018

Manuscripts & Special Collections

The Musical Million: The Ruebush-Kieffer Company, Singing Schools, and the Birth of Southern Gospel

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

Archives

A Greensville County Fixer Upper

Greensville County Chancery Cause Pierce R. Farley VS Benjamin D. Tiller, etc., 1886–007 tells the tale of a business deal gone sour. With echoes of…

Louise JonesNovember 28, 2018