A First for Us
Last night may have been a first in the history of Encyclopedia Virginia: our resource appeared onscreen during one of the late-night shows. Trevor Noah of the Daily Show quoted from our… Read More»
How a Louisiana Plantation Museum Is Helping Us Think about Our Slavery Content
This blog post was written by Miranda Bennett, assistant editor of Encyclopedia Virginia. John Little, who escaped to Canada from bondage in Tennessee, told an interviewer, “Tisn’t he who has… Read More»
Updating the Daughters
Back on August 30, I posted an open letter to the Virginia Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in response to their complaints about our entry on the… Read More»
United Daughters of the Confederacy & White Supremacy
Two days ago, Ginger R. Stephens, the president of the Virginia Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, wrote a letter to her “ladies.” “It has been brought to… Read More»
Different, but How Different?
We received a comment from Robert Glisson today on an old blog post about slavery. This comment calls to mind a whole “debate” over whether Irish indentured servants were, in fact,… Read More»
Crazy Bet & Mary Jane
In Season 2, Episode 6, of Not Even Past, host Brendan Wolfe tells the story of Elizabeth Van Lew and Mary Richards Bowser, two mysterious women with deep connections to the… Read More»
A Most Savage Tale
In Season 2, Episode 5, of Not Even Past, host Brendan Wolfe investigates the life of Thomas Savage, a Jamestown colonist who, as a boy, was given over to the Indians.… Read More»
Keeping House with Marion Harland
In Season 2, Episode 4, of Not Even Past, host Brendan Wolfe reads Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery (1871) by Marion Harland. The Virginian brought cookbooks to the… Read More»
Another Man’s Property
In Season 2, Episode 3, of Not Even Past, host Brendan Wolfe marvels at Anthony Johnson, a slaveholder on the Eastern Shore who, earlier in life, had been known only as… Read More»
A Monstrous Tongue of Flame
In Season 2, Episode 2, of Not Even Past, host Brendan Wolfe remembers one of the strangest and most heartbreaking of Civil War battles: the Battle of the Crater. It began… Read More»
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