Quote of the Day
From Ta-Nehisi Coates, who just finished a history of the Second World War by Antony Beevor: This is what is ultimately most troubling for me about Beevor’s work. He—all at… Read More»
Tag: Life Magazine
This Day (A Most Gratifying Edition)
So much of it begins, really, on this day in 1606, when King James I granted the Virginia Company of London a royal charter. “Go west, young men,” he proclaimed, more or less, “and bring me back… Read More»
This Day (Crazy Edition)
Fifty years ago today the great country singer and Winchester native Patsy Cline died in a plane crash near Camden, Tennessee, at the age of twenty-nine thirty. She was flying… Read More»
Say It Again!
An advertisement for Virginia Dare wine, from the December 14, 1942, issue of Life magazine.
From Point Comfort to Poitier
In June 1969 Ebony magazine celebrated the 350th anniversary of “The Birth of Black America” by remembering the arrival, in 1619, of the first Africans: In August when the shadows… Read More»
Pairing Up
Consecutive pages from the March 18, 1966, issue of Life magazine, featuring Richard and Mildred Loving.
Carry Me Back
An advertisement for Colonial Williamsburg, from the May 22, 1944, issue of Life magazine.
Harry Byrd’s Legacy
From the November 4, 1966, issue of Life magazine, an editorial on the legacy of United States Senator Harry F. Byrd, who had died the previous month. First, bad Harry… Read More»
You Horrible Creatures!
From the February 11, 1946, issue of Life magazine: the return to Virginia of Nancy Langhorne Astor, the Virginian who became Britain’s first woman to sit in Parliament. “Oh, there… Read More»
A Nation at War
A party at the Virginia Military Institute, from the December 22, 1941, issue of Life magazine. The caption reads: Cadets and girls sit one out in Jackson Memorial hall under… Read More»
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