Patron’s Choice: The Life and Times of A. J. Weed
This week, we are pleased to feature a guest post from researcher Charles Morrill. Mr. Morrill is an independent scholar researching the creation of Thomas Jefferson’s polygraph by Charles Willson...
View ArticlePatron’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....
View ArticleFinding Humanity in the Past
This week, we are pleased to feature a guest post by Gayle Jessup White, who is a Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies Fellow for 2014. Ms. White researched the collections of...
View ArticleGlimpses of Lafcadio Hearn in Virginia
This week we are pleased to share a guest post by Rodger Steele Williamson, who is a professor at the University of Kitakyushu, Japan. Professor Williamson spent several months over the last year...
View ArticlePatron’s Choice: Exploring the Gannaway/Ganaway Family Roots
This week, we are pleased to feature a guest post from researcher Brenda Fredericks. Mrs. Fredericks is an independent scholar researching her family’s genealogy. She spent number of days studying the...
View ArticleMining the Ores of Breece D’J Pancake’s Life and Works
This week’s post is contributed by two visiting undergraduate researchers, Megan Flanery and Hunter Walsh, who traveled all the way from Southern Georgia University to examine our Breece D’J Pancake...
View ArticleResearching the 1918 Flu Epidemic in Virginia
In 1918, a new strain of influenza swept around the world. Before it was done, it had killed approximately 30 million people. In the United States at least 750,000 died in only a few months—the...
View ArticlePatron’s Choice: Readers Reading Hannah Foster’s The Coquette
This week, we are pleased to feature a guest post from Amanda Stuckey, who visited the collections earlier this year as a Lillian Gary Taylor Fellow in American Literature Mary and David Harrison...
View ArticleIdentifying Early Shelf-Marks from the Rotunda Library
This week we are pleased to share a guest post by two graduate students in the English department, Neal D. Curtis and Samuel Lemley who are currently doing research for a grant-funded project on the...
View ArticleUnearthing Fiction: Creative Writing Inspired by UVA’s Archive
This week we are pleased to share a guest post from Nichole LeFebvre. Nichole is a Poe/Faulkner Fellow at the University of Virginia, where she teaches creative writing. Her poems can be found in...
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