Encyclopedia Virginia shares the history of a book based on a historic event in Virginia. The Confessions of Nat Turner, a novel by William Styron, was published in 1967 and won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1968.
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Woman Suffrage in Virginia
The woman suffrage movement began in Virginia as early as 1870. In 1909, its most vocal supporters organized around the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, which joined with national groups in an effort to change state and local laws and pass an amendment to...
The Great Awakening in Virginia
Great Awakening was the most significant cultural upheaval in colonial America. The term refers to a series of religious revivals that began early in the eighteenth century and led, eventually, to the disestablishment of the Church of England as the official church during the...
Edgar Allan Poe
EV tells the tale of the man credited as the inventor of the detective genre in fiction.
Rita Dove
Encyclopedia Virginia profiles Virginia author Rita Dove. Rita Dove is widely regarded as one of America's finest living poets, and first African American Poet Laureate of the United States.
Cooking in Early Virginia Indian Society
Early Virginia Indians hunted, fished, and collected wild grains and berries, which they prepared in various ways. Meats were roasted, while grains and tubers were pounded into ashcakes and...
VFH a Wise Investment
Thanks to Dominion a new digital archive will preserve historic images and other documents of Virginia Indian Tribes.