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- Happy Virginia Archives Month 2025!
- New Books – September 2025
- “From Whence They Came:” The Richard Forrester Family of Jackson Ward
- London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Richmond: The Cosmopolitan Sensibility of the 1890 Lee Monument
- Do You Want to Join the Gallon Club?
- Attics and Basements and Bell Towers, Oh My!
- Tough Times for the Treasury Department
- “A Rumbling Disagreeable Noise:” Complaints about Bowling in Alleghany County
- Disaster Preparedness Workshops Support Seniors Through Library Outreach
- Location is Everything
- A Virginia Untold Update
- New Books – August 2025
- Virginia’s Minorities in World War II: Armenian American Soldiers & the History of MENA Immigration
- Fugitive Data Portraits: Self-Emancipation in Virginia
- House to Highway: Reclaiming a Community History
- “A Fashionable Suit of Tar and Feathers”
- Samuels Public Library’s Party of the Year
- Banditti of Brothers: Irregulars and Plunderers During the Revolution
- The Ginter Park Citizen: Community-Building at the Community Building
- The Legality Around a Remarkably Painful Societal Issue
- New Books – July 2025
- Of ‘Maters and Mayo: Hot Tomato Summer and the History of Duke’s
- How to Become a Lawyer in Virginia
- How the Bicycle Boom of the 1970s Prepared the Way for the Bikecentennial
- Hikers’ Corner at the Waynesboro Public Library
- Copy That!: Reproducing Documents in the Pre-Digital Age
- Oh Say, Can You Sing?
- New Books – June 2025
- Freed From the Archives: The Life of Emanuel Jones of Surry
- Rolling into Richmond
- Picturing Family
- Until Freedom Comes: Newport News Public Library’s Black History Exhibit
- The Denim Decade
- From Richmond to SĂŁo Paulo: International Art Collaboration on the Eve of World War II
- “One of the Most Unique Papers”: Documenting Chinese American Citizenship in Virginia
- New Books – May 2025
- Newly-Available Archival Accessions, January 1-March 31, 2025
- “A Very Excellent Trip” : Governor Linwood Holton’s Trade Mission to Japan and Australia
- “The best for military purposes of any map available”: The Ludwig von Buchholtz revisions to the Wood–Bőÿe map and the Civil War
- Was the First Filipino American Citizen Naturalized in Norfolk County?
- IMLS, LSTA, and Public Libraries
- “It’s Gonna Be A Gosh Darn Good Affair”: The Lackey USO Club
- “Combustible Rubbish:” Colonel Blanton Duncan and Confederate Currency
- Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month 2025
- Searching for Nelly, Harriet, and Juno – Part 2
- New Books – April 2025
- “She is supposed to be his daughter”: Making Historical Connections in Albemarle County
- Making History: Celebrating Student Transcribers for National Volunteer Week
- Navigating Methods of Map Making: A Feud Between Surveyors in the Enquirer
- Happy Birthday, Edna Lewis
