A project of the Library of Virginia, this website makes many of
the library's resources available to the public in digital form.
Most resources in its digital collections relate to Virginia
history, making this a treasure house for educators teaching
Virginia state history. "Digital Collections" contains the bulk
of the site's content. More than 70 collections document aspects
of Virginian life and politics from the colonial era to the
present day, and include photographs, maps, broadsides,
newspaper articles, letters, artwork, posters, official
documents and records, archived political websites, and many
other types of primary sources. Topics include, but are far from
limited to, modern Virgina politics and elections; the 2007
Virginia Tech shooting; World War II photographs; Works Project
Administration oral histories; the 1939 World's Fair; World War
I veterans and posters; the sinking of the Titanic;
stereographs; the Richmond Planet, a 19th-century African
American paper; Civil War maps; official docume