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»
Tag: Around the State
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»
History Writ Aright
What does that even mean, history writ aright? Aside from it being a quotation from a speech I recently read, I mean. It’s a question I’ve wondered about, and worried about, as… Read More»
Tim Kaine, Syria, and Jamestown
Yesterday Tim Kaine spoke on the Senate floor in favor of allowing Syrian refugees into the United States. He invoked Virginia history in making his argument: My state of Virginia began… Read More»
RIP, Robert E. Simon Jr.
Robert E. Simon Jr., the founder of Reston—a city that takes its name from his initials—died this week at the age of 101. Our entry notes that Reston, established in… Read More»
RIP, Alan Cheuse
The novelist and critic Alan Cheuse died last week. Best known as a book reviewer for the NPR program All Things Considered, he wrote several novels and collections of fiction, and… Read More»
A Catholic Conspiracy at Jamestown?
It doesn’t look like much, does it? But this little silver box, now turned green with age, could change a lot of what we understand about early Jamestown. According to… Read More»
This Day (Statues Coming Down Edition)
On this day in 1776, an angry mob, incited by a public reading of the Declaration of Independence, pulled down a statue of King George III in Bowling Green Park in… Read More»
From a Lamp-Post
I happened upon some story on NPR this week about how we Americans remember—or perhaps choose not to remember—our history of lynching. It first ran in February, and maybe it… Read More»
Making the Best of the Starving Time
The colonial historian Andrew Schwartz says it’s no big surprise that cannibalism existed at Jamestown. (Note: I think more caution is due here.) And he uses the occasion of a… Read More»
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