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📚 Cast your vote for the Library of Virginia’s annual People’s Choice Award for Fiction! 📚 Our finalists represent the m...
06/01/2026

📚 Cast your vote for the Library of Virginia’s annual People’s Choice Award for Fiction! 📚 Our finalists represent the most-requested fiction titles by Virginia authors published in 2025.

Vote online by July 15, 2026: https://lvafoundation.org/peopleschoiceawards

The 2026 People's Choice Award for Fiction finalists are:
• David Baldacci | Strangers in Time A World War II Novel
• S.A. Cosby | King of Ashes
• Virginia Evans | The Correspondent
• Bruce Holsinger | Culpability
• Corinne Michaels | All Too Well
• Adriana Trigiani | The View from Lake Como

Winners will be announced on Sept. 19, 2026, at the 29th Annual Virginia Literary Awards Celebration, the Commonwealth’s biggest night honoring its authors and their stories.

Learn more & purchase tickets here: https://lvafoundation.org/literaryawards/

David Baldacci Adriana Trigiani S.A.Cosby Author Author Corinne Michaels

📚Cast your vote for the Library of Virginia’s annual People’s Choice Award for Nonfiction! 📚 Our finalists represent the...
06/01/2026

📚Cast your vote for the Library of Virginia’s annual People’s Choice Award for Nonfiction! 📚 Our finalists represent the most-requested nonfiction titles by Virginia authors published in 2025.

Vote online by July 15, 2026: https://lvafoundation.org/peopleschoiceawards

The 2026 People's Choice Award for Nonfiction finalists are:
• Stephen Starring Grant | Mailman
• Jane Harrington | Women of the Fairy Tale Resistance
• Andrew Lawler - Author | A Perfect Frenzy
• Douglas Waller | The Determined Spy
• Paula Whyman | Bad Naturalist
• Gerri Willis | Lincoln’s Lady Spymaster

Winners will be announced on Sept. 19, 2026, at the 29th Annual Virginia Literary Awards Celebration, the Commonwealth’s biggest night honoring its authors and their stories.

Learn more & purchase tickets here: https://lvafoundation.org/literaryawards/

05/29/2026

Be sure to stop in the Library's gallery on Saturday! It's the last day to view “Broad Street Circa 1919: A Photographic Exhibition" featuring historic photographs of Broad Street taken in 1919 by G.L. Hall, a local photographer who operated a modest studio on the street. It highlights Broad Street’s history and buildings through photographs, architectural drawings, advertisements and other historical documents from the Library’s collections.

Get more information at https://www.lva.virginia.gov/events/exhibitions/broad-street

Please join us in welcoming two appointees to the Library of Virginia Board, announced last Friday by Governor Spanberge...
05/29/2026

Please join us in welcoming two appointees to the Library of Virginia Board, announced last Friday by Governor Spanberger: genealogist Barbara Vines Little of Orange, Virginia, who has previously served on the board, and retired president of the Virginia Public Safety Foundation, Nancy Rodrigues of Surry, Virginia. Both appointees will begin the term in July of this year. Congratulations, Barbara and Nancy!

Happy Birthday to Patrick Henry, who served as governor of Virginia from July 6, 1776, to June 1, 1779. Henry's executiv...
05/29/2026

Happy Birthday to Patrick Henry, who served as governor of Virginia from July 6, 1776, to June 1, 1779.

Henry's executive papers are held within the Library of Virginia collections. Learn more in this guide about the Governors’ Letters Received, 1776-1784 collection https://lva-virginia.libguides.com/governors-letters and view Henry’s letters at https://lva.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/collectionDiscovery?vid=01LVA_INST:01LVA&collectionId=81118979910005756

Portrait of Patrick Henry: copy of Thomas Sully original by George B. Matthews, ca. 1883, State Art Collection, Library of Virginia

VA250 - American Revolution 250 Commission

05/28/2026

Kathleen DuVal discusses her latest book "“Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution” in this recording at the Library of Virginia.

While citizens of the 13 rebelling colonies came to blows with the British Empire over tariffs and parliamentary representation, the situation on the rest of the American continent was equally complicated. In the Gulf of Mexico, Spanish forces clashed with Britain’s strained army to carve up the Gulf Coast, as both sides competed for allegiances with Chickasaw, Choctaw and Creek nations who inhabited the region. Meanwhile, African American slaves were finding opportunities to expand their freedoms.

DuVal reveals that an individual’s motives were as important in their allegiance to the Revolution as the ideals of liberty and freedom the Founders espoused — independence held personal as well as national meaning. The choices of individuals outside the colonies became crucial to the war’s outcome.

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