Women’s History Month is only a few days away and again this year, Special Collections and the University Libraries, in conjunction with some friends around campus, have some plans a-foot! “Coeds: The History of Women Students at Virginia T… Continue reading
Women’s History Month is only a few days away and again this year, Special Collections and the University Libraries, in conjunction with some friends around campus, have some plans a-foot! “Coeds: The History of Women Students at Virginia T… Continue reading
Robbie Fried, a Hokie grad, is speaking TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27TH at 7:00 PM in HOLDEN HALL AUDITORIUM. This is a Pamplin College of Business / University Libraries collaboration to bring leading international thinkers to the VT campus. Please consider attending to learn from one of our very own about the far-reaching advantages of global diversity […] Continue reading
Like all archives, Special Collections at Virginia Tech holds a rich store of fascinating stories. One of these is the “John Henning Woods Papers,” a collection of six diaries and memoirs by a Confederate conscript who created an underground Unionist s… Continue reading
So, as is the way of things, your usual archivist/blogger Kira has found herself a new project. (I want to talk about it, but it means a more text-based blog post this week–apologies for that in advance.) Good news: It’s for the benefit of … Continue reading
As archivists we look at objects all the time, putting them into protective folders, filing them into map cases and boxes, labeling them to provide context and preserve their order. We repair, we structure, we help people gain access, and we promote th… Continue reading
Over the past few months, I’ve stepped outside my normal topical areas of social justice and the history of traditionally marginalized communities. This departure was related to an exhibit titled Flora Virginica that is on display in our reading … Continue reading
The first thing I did when I started my very first desk shift in Special Collections was grab a mid-1980s copy of The Bugle from the shelf by the door, where you can find almost every copy that was ever published. My mission — like that of many o… Continue reading
This week, I thought we’d take a look at something that relates to culinary history in a way that we haven’t talked about much before: food production and technology. More specifically, part of the process of how the literal sausage is made… Continue reading