On Display: September 28, 2012 - January 16, 2013
Location: Read & Relax
What does it mean to be a pilgrim? The word “pilgrimage” evokes very different images depending on your beliefs, culture, and upbringing.
On Display: June 18, 2012 - January 11, 2013
Location: Marshall Gallery, 1st Floor Rotunda
This exhibit examines how Virginia responded to the Supreme Court’s momentous 1954 decision overturning “separate but equal” schools.
On Display: April 12, 2012 - January 11, 2013
Location: Marshall Gallery, 1st Floor Rotunda
At the beginning of the Civil War, there were very few hospitals around the country. Washington, the nation’s capital, had no military hospitals. Neither the Union nor the Confederacy was well…
On Display: March 21 - December 10, 2012
Location: Special Collections Lobby
The Battle of Williamsburg was a rear-guard action fought in rain and mud on May 5, 1862.
On Display: October 19, 2011 - October 3, 2012
Location: Marshall Gallery, 1st Floor Rotunda
The years before the Civil War were not always stable ones for William & Mary. The university contended with changes in presidents, resignations and deaths of professors, an end to the chair of law,…
On Display: March 28 - October 2, 2012
Location: Flat case near the Brown Board Room and Library Administration, 3rd Floor
This exhibit is part of a continuing series about the presidents of William & Mary. It provides a history of the university as seen through the eyes of its presidents. This second installment spans…
On Display: September 9, 2011 - September 25, 2012
Location: Kaplan Arena
Tribe Pride: William & Mary Athletics Media Guides from Swem Library allows visitors to experience the history of intercollegiate sports at William & Mary through the athletics publications created…
On Display: July 18 - September 16, 2012
Location: Read & Relax
This exhibit features reproductions and artifacts from Special Collections, which attest to the both celebratory and competitive facets of the Summer Olympic Games.
On Display: April 12 - May 28, 2012
Location: Read & Relax
The combination of all three creative processes—poetry, painting, and calligraphy—is considered the ultimate in artistic achievement in Chinese art. Very rarely does a single artist have talent in…
On Display: October 17, 2011 - May 18, 2012
Location: Marshall Gallery, 1st Floor Rotunda
The Virginia Council of Human Relations (VCHR) was a bi-racial organization that worked to foster communication and improve relations between blacks and whites. The exhibit highlights a few…
On Display: October 28, 2011 - April 9, 2012
Location: Marshall Gallery, 1st Floor Rotunda
At the beginning of the Civil War, medicine was at a crossroads. Researchers were only beginning to recognize the role of microorganisms in causing disease and the importance of antiseptic conditions…
On Display: December 6, 2011 - April 6, 2012
Location: Read & Relax
The diversity of the William & Mary community finds expression in a variety of student campus publications.
On Display: December 9, 2011 - March 30, 2012
Location: 3rd Floor Rotunda Gallery
The yearly occurrence of Christmas invites celebrations to maintain a sense of tradition and nostalgia. Steeped in the Colonial Revival atmosphere of Williamsburg in the 1930s with the reconstruction…
On Display: October 13, 2011 - March 27, 2012
Location: Flat case near the Brown Board Room and Library Administration, 3rd Floor
This exhibit is part of a continuing series about the presidents of William & Mary. It provides a history of the university as seen through the eyes of its presidents. The first exhibit spans the…
On Display: October 18, 2011 - March 12, 2012
Location: Special Collections Lobby
When we think of archival collections, we imagine primarily written documentation, be it letters, diaries, or organizational records. But artifacts are sometimes part of those collections and some of…
On Display: February 16, 2011 - February 27, 2012
Location: Bright Gallery, 2nd Floor Rotunda
The fifth in a series of library exhibits of W&M faculty publications has opened at Swem. “Title Pages: An Exhibit of Publications from Faculty in the Government Department” is on display in the…
On Display: April 28 - December 4, 2011
Location: 3rd Floor Rotunda Gallery
During the Jim Crow Era, law and custom in this country dictated racial segregation, and Jim Crow provided blacks a mirror through which to see themselves—as lazy, shiftless, womanizing drunks or…
On Display: May 5 - November 28, 2011
Location: Read & Relax
The first issue of The Flat Hat was printed on October 3, 1911. Its name was derived from a secret society, dating back to 1750, nicknamed the “Flat Hat Club.” This club claimed Thomas Jefferson as a…
On Display: March 16 - October 23, 2011
Location: Marshall Gallery, 1st Floor Rotunda
The end of the Civil War brought the passage of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) made “separate but equal” the law of the land. Materials in the…
On Display: March 22 - October 11, 2011
Location: Flat case near the Brown Board Room and Library Administration, 3rd Floor
This year marks the 250th Anniversary of Thomas Jefferson attending William & Mary. In 1760, Jefferson set off from his rural estate in Albemarle County, Virginia to Williamsburg in order to further…