Welcome to our "co-op for historians"...a digital archive allowing members to share archival treasures and publish essays and articles, with a special emphasis on the History of Southwest Virginia.
Why create another digital archive? We hope it will become a valuable resource for history buffs, classroom teachers, and researchers who are looking for in-depth information, an introduction to the best of scholarly writing, and an overview of Virginia history.
How does this History Exchange work? For family historians who have compiled narratives about their family tree, this is a good place to publish their findings. Other writers, including independent historians, former history majors, undergraduate and graduate students, and history buffs...may be seeking a convenient way to publish articles and essays,and instead of submitting to a traditional print journal, they are invited to publish here.
Virginia History Exchange, brought to you by...
Community Archives of Southwest Virginia, LLC
Imagining the Virginia Frontier Lectures -
Preview - April 17th 6:30 -8:00...Greenfield Center in Daleville
Summer classes Wednesday Mornings 10 am, June 6- July 18
November 19, 2011, at the Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine...about 19th Century Medicine... Harvey Black and John S. Apperson Field Hospital to Lunatic Asylum
Slide Show about John S. Apperson... July 25th, 2011, Community Center in Bolton Landing, NY 
Talk to Municipal Clerks...April 28th, 2011, VT Alumni Center
VA History Exchange - Explains about contents of website
About Us - Tells about Ellen Brown, members and contributors
Archives - Christ Church, Roanoke (Faith & Family Treasures)
Refugee History - About the experiences of refugees living in Roanoke
Watercolor by Emilie Thompson (Ferry Hill Tavern)
Contact Information:
Ellen A. Brown
Community Archives of Southwest Virginia, LLC
2037 Memorial Avenue, SW
Roanoke, VA 24015
540-981-0206
mynewestchapter@verizon.net
www.vahistoryexchange.com
Family Portraits - Journals, biographical essays, & creative non-fiction. Although many experts offer training in genealogy, Ms. Brown is more interested in the process of organizing and writing narrative histories of each family or individual...thus creating "portraits" in words, an example of the new genre of creative non-fiction.
Missing Ingredients - about aging, by Ellen A. Brown
Justice in a Jar - about parenting, by Ellen A. Brown
The Grove Hill Eleven - about the eleven children of Nathaniel Burwell Harvey and Elrica Rorer, by John Barton
James Roy Micou - about the Micou family, 1st cousins of Andrew Lewis Ingles, by Fannie Roy Micou
Katharine Hill Apperson: This is your Life - by Ellen A. Brown
Constrained to Silence (about Thomas Jefferson), by Ellen Brown
Southwest Virginia (1891), by Thomas Bruce
Classes and Workshops:
Other slide shows concerning Virginia History:
Design by
James T. Harman
