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Click? Clack? KABOOM!

Rachel Quimby, Associate Producer of the new history-focused radio show BackStory, has submitted this description of the program. Readers of the Encyclopedia Virginia blog should check it out . .… Read More»

Around the State, News & Updates

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'I don't see color'

Several days ago I patched together a few thoughts on race-mixing. The writer Steven Augustine has since commented on the piece (on another blog where the essay was also posted),… Read More»

Virginia History

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George Garrett (1929-2008)

George Garrett died on Sunday at the age of 78. He was, in the words of the Virginia Quarterly Review’s blog, a “prolific author, screenwriter, professor, and beloved Charlottesville figure.”… Read More»

Around the State, Virginia Literature

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'Only in the shadowland of myths'

Meriah L. Crawford has written a great entry for us on the Virginia novelist Mary Spear Tiernan (1836–1891). Because I’ve been dwelling on Nat Turner of late, I was interested… Read More»

Inside the Encyclopedia, Virginia Literature

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See what happens when you are on Encyclopedia Virginia's Editorial Advisory Board?

First it was Ed Ayers. Soon after he joined Encyclopedia Virginia‘s Editorial Advisory Board he was named the ninth president of the University of Richmond. Then it was Sandy Treadway.… Read More»

Around the State, Inside the Encyclopedia, News & Updates

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He May Have Been Cool Looking . . .

The other day I was editing an entry about Ambrose E. Burnside, a Union general during the Civil War.* As you can tell from the photograph, this is the same… Read More»

Inside the Encyclopedia, Virginia History

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Was Our Liberty Born in Slavery?

I was reading Henry Wiencek’s 2003 book about George Washington and slavery, An Imperfect God, and came across a provocative idea about the relationship between American democracy and slavery. We’re… Read More»

George Washington, Virginia History

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It's a Complicated Story

. . . by which I mean race in America. I know, this is hardly a penetrating insight, but it’s on the mind regardless, what with Barack Obama reminding us… Read More»

Virginia History

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Oh the Irony

If my math is correct, then yesterday was the one hundred sixty-second anniversary of the start of the Mexican War. Not that this sort of anniversary requires a parade or… Read More»

Robert E. Lee, Virginia History

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Mr. Lincoln and the Picketts

I took Michael Shaara’s The Killer Angels (1974) off the shelf on Friday and idly opened to the foreword. I’ve always loved how it includes dramatic biographical sketches of the… Read More»

Virginia History

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