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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»
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»
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»
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»
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»
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»
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»
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»
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»
We are at work editing our entry on the Maryland Campaign, which culminated in the titanic Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862. Perhaps strangely, we didn’t include this on… Read More»
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