NewsEliza! Eliza!
By Nora Pehrson Karen Chase is a 2019 Virginia Humanities Fellow in residence at the Library of Virginia in Richmond. She is working on a forthcoming book, Eliza! Eliza! A …
NewsSea Change
As Tangier disappears, Virginia Humanities thinks about how to preserve the island and why that’s important.
NewsIn Pursuit of Truth
On March 24, 2018, during the twenty-fourth annual Virginia Festival of the Book, 2017 National Book Awards finalists Erica Armstrong Dunbar (Never Caught) and David Grann (Killers of the Flower Moon) …
NewsLife for Me Ain’t Been No Crystal Stair
David Bearinger remembers Frances Latimer and the important contribution she made to telling the story of African Americans on Virginia’s Eastern Shore.
NewsThe Life of a ’57 Chevy
There are thirteen people packed between the covers of Earl Swift’s book-in-progress, but the star is a ’57 Chevrolet Townsman wagon. Auto Biography tells the true story of the car and its many owners.
