On Display: April 23 - September 12, 2021
Before social media gave users the freedom to share their lives and perspectives, zines radically challenged the publishing industry’s standards, providing a way to spark dialogues about unaddressed…
On Display: February 26 - April 21, 2021
Location: Swem Lobby
In this exhibit, we have centered on more private aspects of the lives of Black Americans based on source materials housed in Special Collections with the hope that it will help challenge ideas of…
On Display: October 2 - 29, 2020
Location: Swem Lobby
Healthy Together is not just social distancing, it is also about finding and maintaining a community in the midst of upheaval and uncertainty that help you feel safe and seen.
On Display: December 2, 2019 - January 6, 2020
Location: Swem Lobby Exhibit Case
This year’s exhibit considers the changing role of Christmas symbolism, including Moore’s poem, within the developing New York City publishing scene during the nineteenth century.
On Display: April 19 - December 31, 2019
Location: Swem Entrance Gallery
GSWS faculty confront existing ideological frameworks in which women, LGBTQIA+ individuals, and other underrepresented groups are marginalized.
On Display: March 14 - August 18, 2019
Location: Special Collections Lobby
This exhibit highlights the history of W&M women through the artifacts they owned, created, and used during their time at the university.
On Display: September 22, 2018 - July 7, 2019
Location: Swem Entrance Gallery
Narrating Herstory is a dynamic exhibit featuring the complex, inspiring stories of women who experienced these inaugural years firsthand and who transformed campus for the generations to come.
On Display: August 20, 2018 - July 1, 2019
Location: Marshall Gallery, 1st Floor Rotunda
Justly Belongs serves to commemorate William & Mary women and acknowledge the one hundred-year journey of making William & Mary their home.
On Display: November 16, 2017 - June 30, 2019
Location: Bright Gallery, 2nd Floor Rotunda
In our digital age, it is sometimes easy to forget about the importance of printing in human history, particularly as many people now almost never hold a physical newspaper or book in their hands.
On Display: July 18, 2017 - June 16, 2019
Location: 3rd Floor Rotunda Gallery
Broadly centered on the theme of seasonality, this exhibit draws on a collection of cookbooks and recipe books housed in Swem Library's Special Collections Research Center to explore what individuals…
On Display: April 17 - May 21, 2019
Location: Botetourt Gallery
Students who studied abroad in the 2017-2018 academic year submitted hundreds of photos from their international experiences from all over the world.
On Display: May 11, 2018 - April 14, 2019
Location: Swem Entrance Gallery
Joint-appointed in Anthropology, Economics, English, Dance, Theatre, and History, Africana Studies’ core faculty professors’ interdisciplinary scholarship covers a diverse array of topics.
On Display: March 16, 2018 - March 3, 2019
Location: Special Collections Lobby
The Great War, also known as World War I (WWI) — or the World War to those hopeful that it would be the only one — affected almost every continent and impacted millions of individuals.
On Display: January 10 - February 5, 2019
Location: Swem Lobby Exhibit Case
Community activists honor the ambition of the civil rights movement by engaging in volunteer service and joining in solidarity with marginalized peoples, continuing to make King’s dream a reality—at…
On Display: December 4, 2018 - January 6, 2019
Location: Read & Relax
Lively and fascinating, and a bit different from our modern conceptions, the illustrations in this exhibit highlight the figure’s transformation from a mischievous little imp to the jolly, bearded…
On Display: November 5 - December 2, 2018
Location: Swem Lobby Exhibit Case
Veterans Day celebrates all those who served in the armed forces on November 11 each year. Accounts of their service on display describe not the combat bravery glorified in our society, but daily…
On Display: May 11, 2017 - July 31, 2018
Location: Kaplan Arena
This exhibit showcases William & Mary’s diverse athletic spaces and the use our athletes make of them. Selected photographs, artifacts, and publications from the University Archives illustrates this…
On Display: September 15, 2017 - June 30, 2018
When Janet Brown, Lynn Briley, and Karen Ely first moved into their freshmen dorms in Jefferson Hall at William & Mary, they were unaware of the significance of their presence — the three women were…
On Display: August 31, 2017 - May 10, 2018
Location: Swem Entrance Gallery
As a part of the commemorative efforts, William & Mary’s oral historian, alongside Special Collections and the 50th Anniversary Committee, is recording the stories of alumni, faculty and staff in an…
On Display: March 22 - April 18, 2018
Location: Swem Lobby Exhibit Case
The Mademoiselle Zare Papers give us a peek into the life of a woman who not only worked for herself, but made a living telling customers the secrets that could be uncovered in the palm of their hand.