Items

• The Blackledge Collection of Roman Coins

  A digital exhibit documented the women appearing on the Blackledge Collection of Roman Coins housed in Special Collections.
• The Black General

  The Black General is a digital exhibit featured archival material and oral histories on the period of desegregation at W&L, the history of black student organizations, and other relevant material on the Black experience at W&L sourced from alumni, faculty, staff and Special Collections.
• The Black Experience @ W&L

  A digital exhibit created to help remember about the black experience at Washington and Lee University and, more largely, in United States history through African-American poetry and archival materials.
• Spanish in W&L Special Collections

  This interactive catalog and resource guide contains a selection of Spanish language materials from W&L Special Collections and Archive identified and described by students in Professor Julia Hernández's Spanish classes during the 2021-2022 academic year.
• Sisters at the Loom: A Baer Family Legacy

  In 1832, in Panther Gap, near Goshen, Anna Baer wove a bed coverlet for her family. She saved the pattern she used, along with twenty others she and her sisters had collected. Nearly two hundred years later, a group of handweavers has produced a set of textiles from those patterns. The materials created by modern weavers have been added to the Baer family collection.
• On These Grounds: Documenting Slavery at W&L

  On These Grounds: Documenting Slavery at W&L is a collaborative project to share the history of slavery at W&L through archival sources and an event-based data set. This website contains a preview of the data created by the W&L University Library and Institutional History departments.
• Military Life and Veterans

  The Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program at W&L was founded in 1950 and lasted until 1990. During the 40 years of its history, the ROTC program made up a significant part of the student body and culture on campus, and veterans make up a sizeable amount of W&L alumni today. This research portal contains primary sources pertaining to W&L veterans and the ROTC program, including newspaper articles, interviews with veterans and alumni, and faculty letters.
• Integration at W&L

  Integration at W&L is dedicated to the presentation and aggregation of archival material that tells the story of Washington and Lee’s desegregation and integration from its foundation through the present.
• DCI 201: Secret Societies

  An institutional history digital exhibit created during Fall 2021 for DCI 201: Digital Collections and Exhibits that seeks to help broaden public knowledge of what secret societies are and their existence at Washington and Lee University.
• DCI 201: Music

  An institutional history digital exhibit created during Fall 2021 for DCI 201: Digital Collections and Exhibits that details musical acts who performed at W&L from the 1940s through the 1990s.
• DCI 201: Mock Convention - Student Involvement

  An institutional history digital exhibit created during Winter 2020 that compares student involvement in the 1980 and 2020 Washington and Lee University's Mock Conventions.
• DCI 201: Mock Convention - Processes Through the Years

  An institutional history digital exhibit created during Winter 2020 for DCI 201: Digital Collections and Exhibits that details the delegation selection of Mock Convention and how it has progressed as technology has advanced. This collection is primarily aimed towards Washington and Lee alumni but can also help to inform current students about the history of this tradition.
• DCI 201: Integration

  An institutional history digital exhibit created during Winter 2020 about integration at Washington and Lee University, including the creation of Student Association for Black Unity (SABU).
• DCI 201: Football

  An institutional history digital exhibit created during Fall 2021 that portrays the story of competitive football at Washington and Lee University, a small, private, liberal arts university in Lexington, Virginia, through showing the evolution of the school as a pioneer of the sport, to dealing with academic scandal, and rebounding to become a prominent member of the NCAA Division III.
• DCI 201: Fancy Dress Gala

  An institutional history digital exhibit created during Winter 2020 about the history of Fancy Dress, an annual formal gala, at Washington and Lee University.
• DCI 201: Fancy Dress 1980s

  An institutional history digital exhibit created during Fall 2023 about the history of Fancy Dress during the 1980s.
• DCI 201: Evolving Images: The Portrayal of Women at Washington and Lee University (1960-2000)

  An institutional history digital exhibit created during Fall 2023 that delves into the dynamic and often complex portrayal of women at Washington and Lee University from the 1960s to the 2000s.
• DCI 201: Contact Committee & Campus Speech Controversies

  An institutional history digital exhibit created during Fall 2023 that is working to better understand W&L’s Contact Committee, its role in promoting free speech, and controversies surrounding freedom of expression on campus.
• DCI 201: Coeducation (Winter 2020)

  An institutional history digital exhibit created during Winter 2020 that portrays the impacts of coeducation at Washington and Lee University, a small, private, liberal arts university in Lexington, Virginia, through evaluating its effects by comparing the university's social climate before and after the decision to become coeducated.
• DCI 201: Coeducation (Fall 2023)

  An institutional history digital exhibit created during Fall 2023 that highlights the University’s official coeducation process from 1980-1990.
• Civil War Brownsburg: A Community's Civil War Experience

  The Brownsburg Museum (Brownsburg, Rockbridge County, Virginia) and Washington and Lee University Special Collections would like to welcome you to “Civil War Brownsburg,” an online exhibit exploring this community’s Civil War experience, 1861-1865.