Author: Peter McCormack Hedlund

is the web programmer for Encyclopedia Virginia at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.
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Tackling the Roots of Racism in Virginia

Author: Peter McCormack HedlundPublished:

Working on an encyclopedia day in and day out for more than a decade is rewarding and sometimes depressing. It’s rewarding to think that—if you are doing your job responsibly—the resource you are helping to create may contribute to an open and honest dialogue about the past and how that past informs the present. It’s […]

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Fuzzy Times and Time Lines

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Most but not all entries in Encyclopedia Virginia have a time line. (This one, for instance, does not.) At first, a time line seems like a simple thing; it takes a subject and reduces it to days, months, and years, succinctly outlining the life of a poet, or a governor, or a civil-rights activist. Still, […]

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