publishes topical and biographical entries written by scholars, edited to be accessible to a general audience, and vigorously fact checked. content creation is a work in progress, with new entries published regularly.entries are accompanied by primary documents and media objects, including images, audio and visual clips, and virtual tours of historic sites. many of our media objects are unavailable elsewhere and are published courtesy of partnerships with museums and cultural institutions in virginia, the united states, and great britain.a brief historyin 2001, the national endowment for the humanities (neh) awarded virginia humanities a planning grant to study the feasibility of creating a comprehensive online resource focused on the history and culture of virginia. after years of consulting with similar ventures, fund-raising, and infrastructure- and partnership-building, ev published its first entries late in 2008. in 2012