Tag: Inside the Encyclopedia

New Words for an Old Story

In 1953, two Jesuit scholars, Clifford M. Lewis and Albert J. Loomie, published The Spanish Jesuit Mission in Virginia 1570–1572. The book is a collection of primary documents that tells… Read More»

Guest Post: Help Unearth the Secrets of Mary Richards Bowser

We’ve just published our entry on Mary Richards Bowser. Born into slavery, Bowser played an important role in the pro-Union spy ring that Elizabeth Van Lew ran in Richmond during the American Civil War. Lois Leveen, the… Read More»

Introducing Our New Mapping Tool

A guest post by Peter Hedlund, Encyclopedia Virginia Programmer One of the goals at Encyclopedia Virginia is to create intuitive and interesting ways for users to find content on our site. With… Read More»

Feedback: No, I Don’t Like!

A Facebook “friend” of Encyclopedia Virginia left the following comment on a post linking to yesterday’s blog item featuring father-daughter collaborative drawings of all the United States presidents (like the… Read More»

Sally Hemings, Again

We’re at work on our entry about Sally Hemings [see update below], and I’m pretty sure that no piece of writing in the encyclopedia has ever been so fussed over… Read More»

Up the Road a Piece

It’s worth pausing to take note of a few things we’re working on here at the encyclopedia: We’ll be launching a complete redesign of the site, perhaps as early as… Read More»

Rouse the Shire-folk!

Above is a screenshot of a very cool, interactive, digital map of Middle Earth based on J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings series of novels. You can find… Read More»

Spotlight: Indentured Servants

Our entry on indentured servants in colonial Virginia has been published for awhile, but I wanted to spotlight it now because a) it’s a really good entry, I think; and… Read More»

The Native Powhatan Massacree with Full Orchestration and Five-Part Harmony

Yesterday’s post on an epic article in the Washington Post about the “sorry fate” of Carter’s Grove, the old James River plantation built in 1750, contained this paragraph: Before the… Read More»

We Made the Society Pages!

Encyclopedia Virginia‘s programmer Peter Hedlund (left) and editor Matthew Gibson (right) at a fund-raising event for the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities on May 20, 2012, in northern Virginia. (Kyle… Read More»