October 17, 2023. In the past few months, the Racial Terror website underwent a thorough revision to update its content and expand the historical information we have about lynching in Virginia. In particular, all of the entries about each lynching victims have been edited and enriched with additional details coming from more than 300 news articles that have been added to the website. Moreover, thanks to a collaboration with the Library of Virginia in Richmond, the site now hosts more than 300 pages of archival documents related to lynching in Virginia, including death certificates, Coroner’s Inquisitions and Commonwealth Causes (criminal court records). You can browse these additional records under the new tab Sources, or from the LVA website, under the Lynching and Racial Violence Collection. All these additional records have been digitized by the staff at the Library of Virginia and transcribed by JMU students enrolled in Dr. De Fazio’s Senior Seminar on Lynching in the Spring of 2022; you can read more about this collaboration between JMU and LVA in “Documenting Lynching in Virginia: A Transcription Project at James Madison University” in the UncommonWealth blog.