Monthly Archives: March 2014
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