Virginia History

The Virginia Writers Project includes essays on historical aspects of our state. We invite historians and authors with an interest to get involved. Each topic below links to that topic in the electronic copy. 

 
Volume 1 Spring 2023  (stories linked below)

• A Letter to the Citizens of Virginia Beach

• Fiercest of Fires: the Great Orange Fires of 1889, 1908, and 1909

• Samuel Scollay Moore

• Through the Shadow: A Boy’s Memories of the Civil War

• The 1809 Slave Hanging in Montgomery County

• The Marion Democrat 1893-1895

• The Hampton Poorhouse

• The Unwritten law & the 1907 Trial of W. G. Loving

• The Lee Camp for the Civilian Conservation Corps

• The McCue Murder

• The Commonwealth of VA v. James A. and Philip J. Strother

• Images of Wythe County

• “Out of the Ashes We will Rise Again”: The Wytheville Fire of 1924

• The Virginia Guide
   

Volume 1 Summer 2023  (stories linked below)

• Illustration “The Underground Railroad”

• CCC 357 Damascus, Washington County

• The Temperance Cause in Southampton County

• Aubrey E. Strode, Amherst Judge and State Senator

• Alvin Harris vs Commonwealth of Virginia

• Charles Tyler Botts–Printer & Adventurer

• Camp A.A. Humphreys, then Ft. Belvoir, VA

• “Uncle Ned”

• Briscoe Bouldin’s Life on the Randolph Plantation

• Splendid Demonstration of Patriotism: Boy Scout Potato Camps of WWI 

• Who “Ruled” Carroll County in 1912: The Law or the Allen Family?

• Glendon Boyd ~ Master Craftsman
   

Volume 1 Winter 2023  (stories linked below)

• Treasures Beneath Philpott Lake

• “Jack” Lynch Lee, Jr. ~ Lynchburg Attorney

• The 1919 Cadet John Fox Hazing at V.P.I.

• Cottolene

• The Circus in Virginia

• Circus Freaks Turn Faces Homeward

• Mary Randolph & The Virginia House-Wife

• The Patrick/Henry County CCC 1389 

• Rev. Philip Slaughter & Randolph Fairfax

• Gold Dust

• Humpback Bridge in Allegheny County

• Virginia’s First Eagle Scouts

• The Goochland Trial of Asa Wayne Chamberlain

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Volume 2 Spring 2024  (stories linked below)

• The Nut Cracker

• American Press Association

• Standard Sanitary and the Occanock Gas Company

• The Whitaker Ridge  Murders in Tazewell County

• The Chautauqua Movement in Virginia

• The Henry Clay Beattie Murder Trial & Beulah Binford

• Afton Mountian Car Accident 

• Silent Films in Richmond Theaters

• Dixon's "The Clansman" & "Birth of a Nation"

• Senator Craig R. Deeds

• Senator Ghazala F. Hashmi

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Volume 2 Summer 2024  (stories linked below)

• Revenge is Sweet (1890 with historical context)

• Domestic Happiness & Biographical Note (1827)

• Captain Edwin Anderson Fulcher  (Staunton)

• The Woman’s Club of Richmond 

• The Clark Gas Stove 

• African Folk Stories 

• Isle of Wight County’s Confederate Monument 

• Carr’s Hill and Henry Martin, 1890 College Topics

• Steps Toward Equality (Fluvanna Rosenwald Schools)

 

V​olume 2 Winter 2024 (stories linked below)

• The Massie Store, Tyro Virginia

• The Life of the Rev. John Jasper

• John Jasper’s Sermon “The Sun Does Move”

• The Ministry of the Rev. Richard Wells

• History of the Richmond Community Hospital

• Newspaper Resources for the Richmond Community Hospital

• Dr. Fergie Reid: a Legacy

• Edyth Carter Beveridge,Richmond Photographer

• The Lunenburg Trials

• Newspaper Resources for the Lunenburg Trials