The Death of George Wythe
In Season 1, Episode 2, of Not Even Past, host Brendan Wolfe tells the story of how the Founding Father George Wythe met his gruesome end. Thirty years earlier he’d signed… Read More»
‘If you think about it, why?’
This morning, in a radio interview, President Trump took a moment to contemplate the American Civil War. “People don’t realize, you know, the Civil War, if you think about it, why?”… Read More»
New Sheriff
We know him around here as Gibby, or MSG2D, or Dr. Sweeg, or just “Hey!” as in “Hey, can you trouble shoot this XML issue?” And we offer the above… Read More»
The Flight of Henry Box Brown
In Season 1, Episode 1, of Not Even Past, host Brendan Wolfe introduces listeners to Henry Brown, of Richmond. Enslaved, his wife and family having been sold away, he climbed inside… Read More»
The Politics of Sex; or Some Things Haven’t Changed
Steve King, a congressman from my home state of Iowa, made the news this weekend when he tweeted support of a right-wing, anti-immigrant Dutch politician named Geert Wilders. “Wilders understands… Read More»
The Podcast Is Here!
We’ve just released the first six episodes of our new podcast, Not Even Past. Hosted by our managing editor, Brendan Wolfe—which is to say, me—it will be for history lovers but… Read More»
Virginia History to Scale
Since the first days of Encyclopedia Virginia we’ve thought of our audience in a couple of different ways. In one sense, it’s anyone in the world with an Internet connection. And most… Read More»
Fake News in Old Virginny
I was reading an otherwise excellent history the other day when I came across mention of an event I’d never heard of before: a slave revolt in the Richmond area… Read More»
A Tail-Wagging Time Traveler
Our entry on domesticated animals in early Virginia Indian society begins with dogs: Virginia Indians did not domesticate animals, in large part, because good candidates for domestication did not live… Read More»
CORRECTIONS: Hyphens and Gender Roles
We made a couple of corrections in the encyclopedia today. First, we had the name of one of our biographical subjects wrong. Well, sort of wrong. Sarah-Patton Boyle, a white… Read More»
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