Guides for Researchers

Explore our Civil War, African American, environmental, and women's history collections by digging deeper into guides to those topics.

Our guides for researchers include:

• Virginia's Civil War Manuscript Guide
• Civil War in Virginia Published & Primary Sources
• Civil War Maps
• Documenting Women's Lives Manuscript Guide
• Good Eatings: Manuscript Cookbooks and Recipes at the Virginia Museum of History & Culture
• Guide to African American Manuscripts
• Index to African American material in the broadside collection
• Index to African American material in the sheet music collection
• Environmental History resources guide