Library of Virginia @LibraryofVA
Library of Virginia inspires learning, ignites imagination, creates possibilities, encourages understanding, and engages Virginia's past to empower its future. lva.virginia.gov Richmond, Virginia Joined August 2010-
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This video from @CBS6 News describes a "treasured piece of deaf history" and includes the Library of Virginia's efforts to help preserve and promote it. wtvr.com/news/local-new… #DeafHistoryMonth #VirginiaHistory
LVA On the Go is visiting the Eastern Shore Public Library in Parksley today! Workshops today will include Remaking Virginia - the post-Civil War Reconstruction era in Virginia at 1 p.m. Learn more at lva-virginia.libcal.com/event/12190458 #LVAOntheGo #VirginiaHistory #familyhistory
National Poetry Month 2024 With Melanie McCabe uncommonwealth.virginiamemory.com/blog/2024/04/2…
#Anthropologist Ashley Spivey, a citizen of the #Pamunkey Indian Tribe, drew a large crowd for "Union Tooth & Nail": Pamunkey Indians & the #CivilWar. View the recording youtu.be/5fSkLXg69ro?si… and see more photos flickr.com/photos/lvaeven…
Thank you to The Virginia Mercury's Samantha Willis for her column on the Library's family history research resources and Genealogy Workshop Series! @WordsByWillis virginiamercury.com/2024/04/25/who…
Taking the Helm: Librarian of Virginia Dennis T. Clark leads the agency into its third century: uncommonwealth.virginiamemory.com/blog/2024/04/2…
TODAY 12pm - LVA Lecture! "Union Tooth and Nail": #Pamunkey Indians & the #CivilWar with #anthropologist Ashley Spivey. #indigenous #indigenousPerspectivesLVA Free & open to the public. Reserve your seat at lva-virginia.libcal.com/event/11899253 #downtownRVA #RVA
Join us at noon tomorrow as #anthropologist Ashley Spivey, a citizen of the #Pamunkey Indian Tribe, discusses the Pamunkey engagement in the #CivilWar as Union veterans and supporters. Free & open to the public. Registration is required so sign up today at lva-virginia.libcal.com/event/11899253
Attn #Teachers! The Brown Teacher Research Fellowship offers #history & #socialscience #educators in #Virginia the opportunity for in-depth study at LVA. Stipends are $3,000. Learn more and apply at edu.lva.virginia.gov/brown/brown-fe…
Conservation Concentration uncommonwealth.virginiamemory.com/blog/2024/04/2…
LVA On the Go is coming to the Eastern Shore of Virginia Regional Library & Heritage Center in Parksley on Sat. Apr. 27, 10am-2pm. Activities will include intro to LVA's digital resources, #genealogy 101 and #virginiahistory on Reconstruction. Learn more lva-virginia.libcal.com/event/12190458
LVA On the Go is visiting Smyth Co Library in Marion today! Visit to learn about LVA resources & participate in activities - 11am online #research materials & 1pm Virginia Chronicle, our #newspaper database (virginiachronicle.com). lva-virginia.libcal.com/event/12216202 #thisisLVA #genealogy
TODAY 12-2pm - Make History with LVA! Join us for a #volunteer session to learn how to make historical documents more searchable & usable for researchers by reading the text & typing it into digital form. Free but registration required. lva-virginia.libcal.com/event/11563352 #transcribe
The LVA exhibition "Indigenous Perspectives" explores the voices & experiences of Virginia's tribal communities. Here, Denise Lowe Walters, artist & citizen of the Nottoway Indian Tribe of Virginia, explains how she uses her quilting skills to tell the story of planting rituals.
National Poetry Month 2024 with Laura Bylenok uncommonwealth.virginiamemory.com/blog/2024/04/1…
Jennifer McClellan @JennMcClellanVA
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Virginia Museum of Hi.. @VirginiaMuseum
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VDOT @VaDOT
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Virginia Department o.. @VDEM
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Virginia Humanities @VAHumanities
4K Followers 280 Following We are Virginia’s state humanities council. We aim to connect people and ideas, inspire cultural engagement, and deepen mutual understanding.
Madison's Montpelier @JMMontpelier
8K Followers 2K Following Home of America's 4th President, James Madison. A memorial to the Madisons & the Enslaved Community and a center for constitutional education.
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Smithsonian Libraries.. @SILibraries
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ACLU of Virginia @ACLUVA
25K Followers 3K Following Defending civil rights & civil liberties in Virginia.
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Monticello @TJMonticello
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What Up, Richmond? @WhatUpRichmond
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Realistic Poetry @RealisticPoetry
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Serve Virginia @serve_virginia
1K Followers 1K Following Building a culture of service in Virginia by inspiring action, connecting resources, and celebrating impact.
ON ONE CONSULTING @ononeconsulting
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The Patowmack Packet @PatowmackPacket
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1 Followers 41 Following An Adult (sometimes) with nonspecific Learning Disability sharing adventures & more uncensored. Clapper: @Rumples4vr.
J Duh Yuh @jwcat757
138 Followers 354 Following Independent journalist. Coding against the machine. Williamsburg, VA. https://t.co/VpBe5rZVKh
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Tallyn Mccauley @TallynM
1K Followers 55 Following Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving
Reed Bradenstone 🇵.. @jrrbradenstone
69 Followers 227 Following RVA-05 City Council Candidate / Pastor, Richmond's First Church of Atheism / I studied religion in college, and now you have to deal with me. 🐀
Jefferson Smith @SpinSpotlight
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Jennifer McClellan @JennMcClellanVA
44K Followers 4K Following Congresswoman in VA04. Wife of @davemillsva. Mom. Attorney. Former State Senator/Delegate. 🔺 Congressional account: @RepMcClellan
Carla Hayden @LibnOfCongress
86K Followers 12 Following Official account of the 14th Librarian of Congress. Let's explore @LibraryCongress & make history together. All Library accounts: https://t.co/omng4mnVAa
Virginia Museum of Hi.. @VirginiaMuseum
20K Followers 17K Following Connecting people to America's past and inspiring future generations w/ 9 million+ artifacts & 16k+ years of Virginia history. 428 N Arthur Ashe Boulevard
VDOT @VaDOT
82K Followers 2K Following The Virginia Department of Transportation @VaDOTNOVA @VaDOTHR @VaDOTRVA @VaDOTFRED @VaDOTStaunton @VaDOTCULP @VaDOTSalem @VaDOTBristol @VaDOTLynchburg
Christy S Coleman @ChristySColeman
10K Followers 1K Following #Museum CEO tackling US history&culture w/scholarship, passion, & a little irreverence. Documentary talking head, movie consults, #screenwriter, & fan girl
Virginia Department o.. @VDEM
45K Followers 1K Following VDEM coordinates Virginia's emergency preparedness, response, and recovery. (Account not monitored 24/7. Please call 9-1-1 to report emergencies).
Ian M. Stewart @VPM_IanStewart
4K Followers 5K Following Award winning reporter & World Music Show host/producer on NPR member station https://t.co/CPHRZCgC1w. Send Tips/Music/beer/bikes to [email protected] RT ≠ support
Mount Vernon @MountVernon
53K Followers 1K Following Official Twitter feed for George Washington's Mount Vernon, home of our first president. Use #gwmountvernon to be featured on our account! | IG: mount_vernon
The Virginian-Pilot @virginianpilot
139K Followers 121 Following Breaking news and reporting for Hampton Roads and Virginia since 1865.
WTVR CBS 6 Richmond @CBS6
148K Followers 2K Following Local news and beyond. We’d love to hear your story. Please note content tagged @CBS6 may be used by WTVR and Scripps Co. in both on-air and online reporting.
Virginia Humanities @VAHumanities
4K Followers 280 Following We are Virginia’s state humanities council. We aim to connect people and ideas, inspire cultural engagement, and deepen mutual understanding.
Virginia Public Acces.. @vpapupdates
21K Followers 159 Following We elevate public understanding of VA politics by organizing and presenting public information in ways that are accessible to all and free of partisan bias.
Madison's Montpelier @JMMontpelier
8K Followers 2K Following Home of America's 4th President, James Madison. A memorial to the Madisons & the Enslaved Community and a center for constitutional education.
Richmond Public Libra.. @rvalibrary
2K Followers 682 Following Our mission is to inform, enrich, and empower!
It’s ‘Shuh-ree’ @SheriShannon27
4K Followers 2K Following Director: @ShannonStrategy. Co-founder: @SouthsideReLeaf. Sports fan. Penn Stater. I watch a lot of TV. She/her
Smithsonian Libraries.. @SILibraries
81K Followers 925 Following A system of 21 libraries and an institutional archives (@SmithsonianArch) that support @Smithsonian & researchers worldwide. Legal: https://t.co/KPNY7JC8mf
Schuyler VanValkenbur.. @ScVanValkenburg
8K Followers 2K Following Senator for the 16th District. Parent of three pretty cool kids, teacher of the Constitution, Democrat, and #Henrico homer.
Henrico County Govern.. @HenricoNews
16K Followers 48 Following News and information from Henrico County government. Social Media Policy: https://t.co/erW5VWMm4O…
Graham Moomaw @gmoomaw
14K Followers 2K Following Virginia politics + policy reporter for @MercuryVirginia. Previously: @RTDNews Email: [email protected] https://t.co/2WFGcogq95
Newberry Library @NewberryLibrary
24K Followers 866 Following Research library + portal to more than 600 years of human history. Free + open to all since 1887.
Augusta Free Press @AugFreePress
49 Followers 183 Following Augusta Free Press launched on July 2, 2002. The site serves as a portal into life in the Shenandoah Valley, Central Virginia and beyond.
VLBC @VaBlackCaucus
5K Followers 275 Following The VLBC is committed to improving the econ., educational, political, & social conditions of African Americans & underrepresented groups in VA. RT≠endorsement
Americana Corner @americanacorner
401 Followers 706 Following Informative stories of the great events, founding documents, and inspirational leaders who helped create and shape our country.
Cardinal News @CardinalNewsVA
4K Followers 791 Following A nonpartisan, nonprofit news site covering Southwest and Southside Virginia. Sign up for our daily email: https://t.co/vPG0ye6yiS…
Greg Schneider @SchneiderG
4K Followers 2K Following Staff writer for The Washington Post covering Virginia; former business editor; father of four; collector of old books and good music. W&M grad.
Congresswoman Jennife.. @RepMcClellan
6K Followers 617 Following Proud Mom, Democrat, and First Black Congresswoman from Virginia. Representing VA-04 in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Dennis Clark @dennistclark
2K Followers 5K Following Librarian of Virginia @LibraryOfVA. Libraries & archives, Virginiana, choral music, higher ed, transit, ECUSA. Alabama ex-pat. MLIS/ @BamaSLIS. Tweets are mine.
David Heath @davidhth
7K Followers 3K Following Author of Longshot: The Inside Story of the Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine. Former @CNN, @publicintegrity. See me in Netflix’s Dirty Money.
Virginia American Rev.. @VARevolution250
289 Followers 158 Following Celebrating the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, the Revolutionary War, and US Independence in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
LCPCurator @LCPCurator
246 Followers 304 Following Linda Kimiko August. Curator of Art & Artifacts and Visual Materials Cataloger at the Library Company of Philadelphia
ASIS&T @asist_org
7K Followers 2K Following Association for Information Science & Technology https://t.co/dRQYoOhUez
American Ancestors @AncestorExperts
12K Followers 768 Following Official Twitter account of American Ancestors. A national center for family history, heritage & culture.
Dr. Colleen Shogan @AOTUS11_Shogan
3K Followers 37 Following Official account of Dr. Colleen Shogan, 11th Archivist of the United States, head of @usnatarchives.
Center for Digital Hu.. @DHatUSM
327 Followers 248 Following Digital Humanities education, projects, and more at the University of Southern Mississippi.
Maggie Walker Governo.. @MaggieWalkerGS
428 Followers 0 Following Maggie L. Walker Governor's School for Government and International Studies
LISNews.org @LISNews
13K Followers 764 Following Blake Carver's LISNews - News For Librarians Since 1999
Bunk @bunkhistory
2K Followers 868 Following Highlighting connections between American history stories from across the web. Powered by @urichmond. Partnered w/ @myhnn. Subscribe: https://t.co/IOLlmPd0nu
National Archives at .. @NARiverside
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project:HOMES @projectHOMES
803 Followers 662 Following Central VA Housing Non-Profit in Richmond with a mission of Improving Lives by Improving Homes.
STEMfem @STEMfem
4K Followers 1K Following STEMfem | History of Women + Girls in Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics | Sister archives @Wikipatia + @Feministory
VDOE TEAL @VDOE_TEAL
47 Followers 78 Following
Douglass Day @DouglassDayorg
1K Followers 1K Following Join us to celebrate the birthday of Frederick Douglass every February 14th. #DouglassDay
GullahMuseumSC @GullahSc
16K Followers 541 Following We seek to preserve Gullah Geechee history & culture by educating the public about how we shaped America. Open Mon. - Sat. 11 am - 4 pm. Closed Sundays. #BLM
Florida Freedom to Re.. @FLFreedomRead
17K Followers 800 Following Citizens of Florida who believe school libraries & curriculum should be a place for all children to access information & ideas #FReadom #LetFloridaRead
RVA Eviction Lab @RVAEvictionLab
2K Followers 67 Following We focus on data to understand the eviction crisis in Richmond and Virginia and to support those who are most affected by the crisis to drive change
Kathryn Howell @Kate_Howell_Phd
2K Followers 751 Following assoc. prof @umd_MAPPD, Director @smartgrowth_umd. Author of Affordable Housing Preservation in DC https://t.co/c03oHHmLS4
LibCrowds @LibCrowds
1K Followers 1K Following Crowdsourcing projects at the British Library @BL_DigiSchol @LivingwMachines. Our newsletter https://t.co/zH4HpsjRbB @[email protected] https://t.co/3CECnqC9Nj
Catherine Baab-Muguir.. @CatBaabMuguira
3K Followers 3K Following Overgrown English major. My book, POE FOR YOUR PROBLEMS, is out now: https://t.co/H4LN0yHuv1 Signed copies: https://t.co/iIq8YJQCwZ
National Museum of th.. @USLatinoMuseum
11K Followers 344 Following Official account of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Latino. The first #AmericanLatinoMuseum exhibit is now open! https://t.co/RnS5EyVJAO
The Wolf Law Library @wolflawlibrary
150 Followers 192 Following Tweets from the Wolf Law Library, @WMLawSchool, in Williamsburg, Virginia.
JMJ-on-break @jmjafrx
36K Followers 2K Following "...a smoldering cloud of a woman, a burning spirit." (Jesmyn Ward) | More likely to find me on IG as @jmjafrx_ 🌊
AMERICA HAS A PROBLEM @CrystalNEddins
2K Followers 4K Following Black studies historical sociologist. Author of Rituals, Runaways, and the Haitian Revolution (Cambridge University Press).
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2K Followers 3K Following A literary press dedicated to writers from DC, Maryland and Virginia. Read/Subscribe WWPH Writes, our little lit magazine! https://t.co/NvvlHsMSKs
Lucinda Roy @LRoyAuthor
178 Followers 78 Following Novelist, poet, artist, prof of creative writing. #TheFreedomRace from @torbooks, out now in pbk. #FlyingtheCoop out in hardcover from Tor Books. Agent: @JVNLA.
EnslavedOrg @EnslavedOrg
1K Followers 2K Following Open access, open source online discovery platform to reconstruct the lives of enslaved persons, enslavers, and slave societies.
John Woodrow Cox @JohnWoodrowCox
13K Followers 1K Following @washingtonpost enterprise | CHILDREN UNDER FIRE: An American Crisis (order below) | @UFJSchool, @UFWarrington alum | [email protected]
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VITA @VITAagency
2K Followers 1K Following We connect, protect & innovate technology for the Commonwealth of Virginia, serving 65 executive branch agencies, 55,000 employees and 8.6 million Virginians.
Jonna Yarrington @AnthroJonna
145 Followers 306 Following Momx2 | Anthropologist Ethnographer Historian Linguist | Interested in humans everywhere |AsstProf @coloradostateu |PhD @uarizona |BA @williamandmary | Go Rams!
Basic Books @BasicBooks
14K Followers 4K Following Renowned publisher of serious nonfiction by leading intellectuals, scholars, and journalists. An imprint of @hachetteUS
AAHA of Fauquier Coun.. @IAahafauquier
50 Followers 33 Following The Afro-American Historical Association of Fauquier County, Virginia
Citizen Scholar @ScholarVa
72 Followers 101 Following Creating a more perfect union through the cultivation of virtue, knowledge, and skill.
Archive of the Past @Archive_Past
562 Followers 1K Following Archive of the Past is a site covering all things historical, including forgotten stories, artifacts, notable images, and book reviews. Run by @andrew_bramlett
Family Tree Magazine @FamilyTreeMag
35K Followers 908 Following Providing inspiration and instruction to genealogy enthusiasts for over 20 years.
Maryland Civic Educat.. @mdcivics
363 Followers 681 Following We are committed to ensuring that all Maryland students have access to meaningful, hands-on, comprehensive #civiceducation and service-learning opportunities.#VA250 was honored to attend a ceremony commemorating the 311th anniversary of the Spotswood Treaty! 🪶 This historic treaty, signed in 1713, established a relationship between the historic Nottoway Tribe and the colonial government.
Love this academic library - public library partnership. "Community Seed Library a partnership between James Madison University Libraries and Massanutten Regional Library" @ALA_ACRL @LibraryofVA @JMUlibraries dnronline.com/news/jmu-mrl-s…
More Tribal Truths being unveiled this afternoon @LibraryofVA
All this week we’re joining with the @NationalParkFdn and @NatlParkService to celebrate #NationalParkWeek! Let’s start by heading on down the road at @GreatSmokyNPS in this excerpt from a 1957 architectural drawing found in our holdings!
The CCC was a great example of good that can be done. Plus, CCC cabins are the best.
On this day in history, April 17, 1933, Camp Roosevelt, the nation’s first Civilian Conservation Corps camp, opened in Shenandoah County, in the @GWJNF. LVA has digitized numerous CCC newspapers & made them available on Virginia Chronicle.uncommonwealth.virginiamemory.com/blog/2017/06/1… #NationalParks
A HUGE thank you to @VAHumanities for their continued support of our podcast. We are working on a second season this year. We are so honored to have tribal elders and scholars sharing knowledge of their Tribe's history and culture. Stay tuned for posts from episodes in the works!
Thanks to you at @HenricoLibrary and @CCPLVA and @rvalibrary and @LibraryofVA for all you do.
Today is National Library Workers Day! Part of National Library Week, this is a day to celebrate the hard work of library support staff and librarians. Are there library workers and librarians that have helped you, over the course of your reading life? librarything.com/tag/librarians
Sometimes, in a colonial-era court record book from a rural Virginia county, you find the most interesting bits of debate as marginalia.
This upcoming week is National Library Week. We will be sharing some old newspaper articles (thanks to @LibraryofVA 's Virginia Chronicle database!) of hour history this week! In 1996, it was announced that our Claremont branch would move into the old Town Hall building:
You don't need to tackle the dunes of Arrakis to see a sandworm! On April 1, our Animal Lab is getting spicier with a special extraterrestrial creature borrowing the bearded dragon's tank for the day. It must be viewed! Come see Shai-Hulud!😉 #Dune #sandworm #AnimalScience
TR was no stranger to love
This morning, we are thrilled to announce that our archivists have uncovered a long lost love letter from Theodore Roosevelt to his dear wife Edith!
Happy #AprilFoolsDay2024! We hope you don't fall for too many tricks today, and remember the Library is here to provide everyone with reliable information and research resources.
Do not play dice with geese. They cheat. #NoJoke
In a final effort to keep Benjamin Franklin Gates away from the Declaration of Independence, the National Archives has allowed two massive security owls to roost in the Rotunda of the National Archives Building in Washington, DC. 🦉🦉
We discovered this dusty 1984 memo in our records of the Environmental Protection Agency (@EPA) - don’t do it Walter! #AprilFoolsDay #Ghostbusters
BREAKING NEWS! We’ve made an astonishing discovery within our audiovisual archives: never-before-seen footage of the first ever Canadian Rubik’s Cube champion. Watch this historic moment now!
We're often asked why there's a color change in the stone of the Washington Monument. The color change marks how far the towering monument was lowered underground every night in the 1940s to help planes avoid it after National Airport opened on the Potomac. #WashingtonDC
Today at @BlkPerspectives, Sabrina G. Watson analyzes legal documents in the collection "Virginia Untold: The African American Narrative" at @LibraryofVA, shedding light on the post-manumission life for African Americans in Antebellum Virginia. Read more: aaihs.org/free-blacks-in…
@AlexandriaNow Not really AFD employees but members of the federal fire brigade present in Alexandria during the Civil War. (Newspaper item courtesy of @LibraryofVA and photo courtesy of @librarycongress )
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