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Ordinary-Keepers, how to sell

A law from Virginia, 1662, pertaining to what kind of alcohol could be sold and who could sell it. This law references "disorders and riots in…

Harper's Weekly Newspaper

A newspaper was published on June 29, 1861, which was a few weeks prior to the First Battle of Bull Run. Harper's Weekly shows a bias toward the Union…

Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac: Petition

For my research project on the Potomac railroad during and around the civil war (focusing on governmental proceedings), I will use a document called…

Richmond Inquirer

This is a significant part of a newspaper in which this issue discusses some problems the RFP and its partners had initially in transferring troops…

Red Cross Statistics Given

This newspaper article inside the Virginia Star, provides the statistical viewpoint of the Women of Virginia Red Cross contributions in the war…

Women At War — Janey

A small newspaper exert in the Highland Recorder of a little girl named Janey writing a letter to former secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau…

Record War Bond Sales Is Goal Of Women At War Week Nov. 22

An article in the Highland Recorder newspaper, talking about the success of the Women at War Week, praised by former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt. The…