The Patriarch and Matriarch of the Albemarle County Rushes

This week, we are very pleased to feature a guest post from Special Collections Reference Coordinator Regina Rush. “…and they stopped in my vision and looked up at me like I had something…to tell or something that needed to be … Continue reading

ABCs of Special Collections: X is for…

Welcome back to the ABCs of Special Collections!  We are excited to bring to you, the letter X is for X-Rated X is for Henry Miller’s banned book Tropic of Cancer, published in 1934 by the Obelisk Press in Paris. … Continue reading

The Media Studies Experience: Restoration Ball Throughout the Decades

We are pleased to feature a guest post by Susan Gravatt, Fourth-Year Media Studies major/Religious Studies minor and blogger for The Media Studies Experience. Saturday, March 22, 2014, from 9pm to midnight on Peabody Lawn, students will come together for … Continue reading

This Just In: Disability in the Archives

On February 27-28 U.Va. hosted “Disabling Normalcy,” an interdisciplinary conference organized by Christopher Krentz, Associate Professor of English and Director of American Sign Language.  In conjunction with the conference, Prof. Krentz and graduate student Philip Timmerman prepared an exhibition, “Disability … Continue reading

Tales from Under Grounds: Women’s Suffrage, Coeducation, and Israeli Statehood

The following blog post is the second in a series of four, spotlighting the mini-exhibitions of students from fall semester’s USEM 1570: Researching History.  This is the abridged version of the students’ projects, featured at their outreach program, Tales from … Continue reading

ABCs of Special Collections: W is for…

Well, Well, Well, what have we here? But the letter W, of course! W is for Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward One of the first American feminist writers, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward gained wide-spread popularity in her day. Her novel The … Continue reading

The Media Studies Experience: An Afternoon with Willa Cather

We are pleased to feature a guest post by Emily Caldwell, Fourth-Year English major/Media Studies minor and blogger for The Media Studies Experience. In my second year at UVa, I took Professor Stephen Raillton’s class on Modern American Authors. We … Continue reading

Patron’s Choice: Massive Resistance and Harry F. Byrd

This week we are pleased to feature a guest post by researcher Dr. Candace Epps-Robertson, who teaches in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, & American Cultures at Michigan State University. Dr. Epps-Robertson worked with our collections remotely, requesting digital images … Continue reading

The Media Studies Experience: U.Va.’s Beta Bridge

We are pleased to feature a guest post by Garrett Gottesman, who is a Third-Year, double-majoring in Media Studies and American Studies with a concentration in Social Reform, and a blogger for The Media Studies Experience. Because I’ve seen messages … Continue reading

On View Now: The Journeys of Vachel Lindsay

We are proud to announce the opening of our new First Floor exhibit, Troubadour, Vagabond, Visionary: The Journeys of Vachel Lindsay, curated by English graduate Student and Special Collections curatorial assistant Elizabeth Ott. Today on the blog, Elizabeth offers some … Continue reading