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Primary Sources: Virginia History
A guide to finding and using primary sources.
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Finding Sources
Online Primary Documents
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Virginia History
Online Audio/Visual
Online Maps
Grafton's History Microform Collection
Historic Newspapers
Virginia's Historical Newspapers
Full text newspapers from the state of Virginia covering the time of colonial development to World War I.
Richmond Daily Dispatch
November 1860-December 1865. There are currently 1384 issues of the paper available online,
Chronicling America
American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection
Early American magazines and journals from 1684-1921 that document society and culture from the Colonial Era through the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Images
Photographs from the Library of Virginia
Archival photos from the Library of Virginia's Flickr account.
Virginia Specific
Voices of Freedom
Virginia Memory
VCU Libraries Digital Collections
Papers of the War Department
Martha Washington: a Life
Virginia and Maryland Probate Inventories, 1740-1810
Brown: Before and After
Unknown No Longer: Names of Enslaved Virginians
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