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Past Events
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200th Anniversary Lecture | The Origins of the Library of Virginia's Book Collections (Happenings)
- Tue., Jan. 24, 12-1 p.m. 2023
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Exhibition Tours | 200 Years, 200 Stories (Happenings)
- Tue., Jan. 24, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. 2023
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Margaret Edds & Michael Paul Williams | What the Eyes Can’t See (Words)
- Thu., Nov. 17, 6-7:30 p.m. 2022
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Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia (Words)
- Thu., Nov. 10, 6-7:30 p.m. 2022
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Melinda Dart | A Glimpse of Greatness (Words)
- Thu., Nov. 3, 12-1 p.m. 2022
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John Charles Thomas | The Poetic Justice (Words)
- Wed., Nov. 2, 12-1:30 p.m. 2022
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Memory's Journey: Addressing Difficult Family History (Words)
- Wed., Oct. 26, 6-7 p.m. 2022
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Making History with LVA (Words)
- Fourth Saturday of every month, 12-1 p.m. Continues through Nov. 20 2022
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Making History with LVA - In Person (Happenings)
- Fourth Saturday of every month, 12-2 p.m. Continues through Nov. 19 2022
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Archives Month Tours of the Library of Virginia (Happenings)
- Sat., Oct. 22, 12-1 p.m. 2022
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Genealogy Workshop | Newspaper Research at the Library of Virginia (Words)
- Fri., Oct. 21, 9:30 a.m.-12 p.m. 2022
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Raised/Razed Film Screening (Film)
- Fri., Oct. 21, 4-6 p.m. 2022
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25th Annual Virginia Literary Awards Celebration at the Library of Virginia (Words)
- Sat., Oct. 15, 6-9:30 p.m. 2022
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Research Sprint | History Unfolded: U.S. Newspapers & the Holocaust (Happenings)
- Sat., Oct. 1, 12-2 p.m. 2022
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Sweet Bitter Blues | A Conversation with Authors Phil Wiggins & Frank Matheis (Words)
- Fri., Sept. 23, 5:15-7:30 p.m. 2022
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Weinstein Author Series – Scott Reynolds Nelson | Oceans of Grain (Words)
- Thu., Sept. 22, 6-7:30 p.m. 2022
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Carolyn Eastman | The Strange Genius of Mr. O (Words)
- Thu., Sept. 15, 12-1:30 p.m. 2022
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Making History with LVA (Happenings)
- Sat., Aug. 27, 12-2 p.m. 2022
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Weinstein Author Series – Beth Macy | Raising Lazarus (Words)
- Tue., Aug. 23, 6-7:30 p.m. 2022
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Book Break with Bill Glose | All the Ruined Men (Words)
- Fri., Aug. 12, 12-1 p.m. 2022
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The Dunn Plat: An Adaptation of Joseph Smith’s Plan for the City of Zion in 19th-Century Virginia (Happenings)
- Sat., Aug. 6, 10:30-11:30 a.m. 2022
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Genealogy Workshop | Court Records at the Library of Virginia (Happenings)
- Fri., Aug. 5, 9:30 a.m.-12 p.m. 2022
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Weinstein Author Series – Rita Dove | Playlist for the Apocalypse (Words)
- Thu., July 28, 6-7:30 p.m. 2022
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Genealogy Workshop | African American Research at the Library of Virginia: Genealogy to 1870 (Words)
- Fri., June 3, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. 2022
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Genealogy Workshop | Legislative Petitions (Words)
- Fri., May 13, 9:30 a.m.-12 p.m. 2022
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Washington's Heir: The Life of Justice Bushrod Washington (Words)
- Thu., May 12, 4:30-7:30 p.m. 2022
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Book Break with Kristina Hamlett | She Lives Here (Words)
- Fri., May 6, 12-1 p.m. 2022
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Virginia Humanities Fellow Talk | Garden Clubs Make History: How Virginia's Gardening Women Changed a State (Words)
- Thu., April 28, 12-1 p.m. 2022
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Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America (Words)
- Tue., April 26, 12-2 p.m. 2022
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Weinstein Author Series – Kristen Green | The Devil’s Half Acre (Words)
- Thu., April 14, 6-7:30 p.m. 2022
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Book Break with Kris Spisak | The Baba Yaga Mask (Words)
- Fri., April 8, 12-1 p.m. 2022
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Book Break with Robin Farmer | Malcolm and Me (Words)
- Fri., March 18, 12-1 p.m. 2022
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WEINSTEIN AUTHOR SERIES EVENT WITH GREGORY SAMANTHA ROSENTHAL Living Queer History: Remembrance and Belonging in a Southern City (Words)
- Thu., Feb. 24, 6-7:30 p.m. 2022
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Literary Virginia Book Group (Words)
- Wed., Feb. 9, 6-7:30 p.m. 2022
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Book Break with CATHERINE BAAB-MUGUIRA Poe for Your Problems: Uncommon Advice from History's Least Likely Self-Help Guru (Words)
- Wed., Jan. 19, 12-1 p.m. 2022
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VIRGINIA HUMANITIES RESEARCH FELLOW TALK Finding Virginia’s Historical Midwives (Words)
- Tue., Jan. 18, 12-1 p.m. 2022
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Columbia Pike: Through the Lens of Community (Galleries)
- Tuesdays-Fridays, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Continues through Jan. 8 2022
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WEINSTEIN AUTHOR SERIES EVENT: KAREN L. COX No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice (Words)
- Tue., Sept. 14, 6-7:30 p.m. 2021
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GENEALOGY WORKSHOP Cemetery Records at the Library of Virginia (Words)
- Fri., Sept. 10, 10-11:45 a.m. 2021
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Looking Back, Looking Forward: The 50th Anniversary of the Virginia Constitution (Words)
- Thu., July 1, 3:30-5 p.m. 2021
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We Demand: Women's Suffrage in Virginia (Galleries)
- Mondays-Saturdays, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Continues through Dec. 5 2020
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Transcribe-a-thon (Words)
- Last Saturday of every month, 12-2 p.m., Sat., Oct. 24, 12-2 p.m. and Sat., Nov. 21, 12-2 p.m. Continues through Sept. 26 2020
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Weinstein Author Series | Sweet Bitter Blues: A Conversation with Authors Phil Wiggins and Frank Matheis (Words)
- Thu., March 19, 5:30-7:30 p.m. 2020
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Genealogy Workshop | Irish Ancestry Research (Happenings)
- Fri., March 13, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. 2020
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Book Launch & Celebration | The Campaign for Woman Suffrage in Virginia (Words)
- Thu., March 12, 5:30-7:30 p.m. 2020
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Civic Conversation Series: A Conversation About Feminism (Words)
- Wed., March 11, 6-8 p.m. 2020
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Map Genealogy Workshop | Maps & Research at the Library of Virginia (Happenings)
- Sat., March 7, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. 2020
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Literary Virginia Book Group (Words)
- Wed., Feb. 12, 6-7:30 p.m. 2020
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Civic Discussions: a Conversation about "Freedom Riders" (Film)
- Wed., Feb. 12, 6-8 p.m. 2020
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A Culture to Care: The History of Filipino Nurses in Virginia (Galleries)
- Mondays-Saturdays, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Continues through Dec. 14 2019
