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Exciting News. The Virginia Newspaper Project and the Library of Virginia invite you to visit Virginia Chronicle, the Library’s online newspaper database and repository. We have added close to 300,000...
View ArticleJohn Mitchell, Jr. Strong Men & Women Panel Discussion at LVA
Come on down to the Library of Virginia tomorrow night for what promises to be a fascinating discussion of the life and legacy of John Mitchell, Jr. For details, read the description below, taken from...
View ArticleExtra! Titles Added to Virginia Chronicle
New titles have been added to the Library of Virginia’s digital newspaper repository Virginia Chronicle, including issues of the “Monthly Journal of Mountain Life” the Mountain Laurel. As it describes...
View ArticleThe Casket and Institute Jewel
Located in Suffolk, Virginia and chartered in 1881, the Suffolk Female Institute was run by Misses Sallie Finney in what had once been the Central Hotel and offered a “thorough education. . .correct...
View ArticleAir of Gloom: Orville Wright’s Ill-Fated Test Flight at Fort Myer, 106 Years...
On 17 September 1908, five years after the first successful flight at Kitty Hawk, Orville Wright and Thomas E. Selfridge test flew the Wright Flyer in a demonstration for the U.S. Army at Fort Myer, in...
View ArticleThe Mountain Laurel
Virginia Chronicle is currently home to over 50 newspapers online. We are particularly happy to include late 20th century newspapers such as the Virginia Farm Bureau News as part of the array of titles...
View ArticleBuckingham County historian gives nod to Virginia Chronicle
The Virginia Newspaper Project will jump at any opportunity to publicize itself and Virginia Chronicle. To that end, the 2015 issue no. 1 of the Library of Virginia’s Broadside magazine (page 8) offers...
View ArticleSpanning the Commonwealth: New to Virginia Chronicle
The Virginia Newspaper Project is excited to announce several new additions to Virginia Chronicle, the Library of Virginia’s digital newspaper database. First, thanks to a generous private donation,...
View ArticleHappy Mother’s Day from the Virginia Newspaper Project
Photo of Anna Jarvis, from the Times Dispatch (Richmond), 12 May 1912 The Virginia Newspaper Project wishes mothers everywhere a very happy Mother’s Day. The idea for a Mother’s Day was originally...
View ArticleThe Princess Anne Times 1915-1918: Boosting the Beach
Of historical anniversaries noted large and small, what follows is of the second type and left unremarked, if not here within this very blog. Last Friday was the one hundredth birthday of the first...
View ArticleAdvertising the Big Top: 1870s Circus Ads from the Staunton Spectator
It’s September 16, 1873 in the sleepy town of Staunton, Virginia. You can only imagine a reader’s excitement at turning to page three of the Staunton Spectator to discover an ad for Lewis Lent’s New...
View ArticleA Bicycle Search For You
From the Times (Richmond, Va.), May 9, 1897. As the UCI World Bike Championships unfold and professional road bikers from all over the map pedal by LVA down Richmond’s Broad Street, the Virginia...
View ArticleA Genius, A Recorder, and a Growler walk into an archive: What’s New on...
The Virginia Newspaper Project is thrilled to announce the latest additions to the Library of Virginia’s free, searchable online newspaper resource, Virginia Chronicle. The recent additions to Virginia...
View ArticleText Correcting with Virginia Chronicle
Hello Virginia Chroniclers: Here’s a reminder that as a registered user of Virginia Chronicle, the Library of Virginia’s digital newspaper collection, you can assist in improving search results by...
View ArticleHorrible Butcheries at Wilmington—The Richmond Planet’s coverage of the 1898...
By Anne McCrery, Virginia Newspaper Project Volunteer On November 10, 1898, in response to the election of a biracial Fusionist government, a group of white Democrats in Wilmington, North Carolina...
View ArticleHappy Holidays from the VNP and the Rappahannock Record
The Virginia Newspaper Project is excited to announce that digitized issues of the Rappahannock Record from 1925-1958 are now available on Virginia Chronicle. Published in Kilmarnock, Virginia from...
View ArticleAlexandria in a time of war: From Mansion House to Camp Distribution
Alexandria was a lively town during the Civil War, so it’s no wonder PBS draws from the city’s history for its new drama Mercy Street. The series, inspired by real people and events, turns the lens...
View ArticleOur Back Pages: The VNP Adds Three Current Newspapers to Virginia Chronicle
Given copyright restrictions, the majority of the text searchable issues of newspapers found on Virginia Chronicle were published prior to 1923. However, thanks to two forward thinking publishers,...
View ArticleThe Planet and Beyond: an update on African American Newspapers at the...
A single extant issue of the Reformer, an African American newspaper published in Richmond from 1895-1931, was recently added to Virginia Chronicle, the Library’s free and searchable digital newspaper...
View ArticleSoldier Newspapers in the Civil War
The Virginia Newspaper Project, ever in search of timely blog entries, encourages you to read the excellent article by Ralph Canevali of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Mr. Canevali writes...
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