Literary Wahoo of the Jazz Age

Novel about the 1920s U.Va. student experience republished

Ever wonder what the University was like in the Roaring ’20s? The novel Boojum! is set in a whiskey-soaked Prohibition-era Charlottesville where waggish poets wend their way through University parties,…

On the Shoulders of Giants

Becoming the president of Girard College

Memory

Researchers explore how we remember, what we remember and why we forget

Researchers explore how we remember, what we remember and why we forget.

First on the Lawn

University honors Roy Willis

Letters to the Editor

What a thrill to see the picture of Scott Stadium in 1964 (“Then and Now: An Illustrated Journey Through Time,” Spring 2010). After the Corps of Cadets and the West…

A Portrait of the South in Black and White

Memoir illuminates Charlottesville and the University during the civil rights movement

Paul Gaston recounts his role in the civil rights movement in Charlottesville.

Famous

A brief history of celebrity

How celebrity and the media have changed over the past 300 years as told by the American History Guys from the radio show Backstory.

U.Va.’s George Washington papers headed to new library at Mount Vernon

A Stitch in Time

Former professor’s vision inspires designers from Culbreth to Broadway

Admire rare and beautiful items of clothing from the 1790s to the 1950s that are held in the Collection of Historic Dress.

1977: Ms. Rhodes Scholar

Catherine Burke Sweet (Col ’77), one of the first female Rhodes Scholars, went to England to study in the late '70s and she never moved back.

Then and Now

An illustrated journey through time

This illustrated journey through time provides a revealing perspective on U.Va. history.

The Song Collector

How folksinger Paul Clayton brought the music of Virginia to the world

Eight World Heritage Sites in the U.S.

A list of places that define American history

At least one of these sites should be familiar to you.

A Real Adventure in Modern Living

Remembering the University experience of the 1950s and 1960s

What was the University experience of the 1950s and 1960s like for a married veteran living on Copley Hill?

Everything That’s Old Is New Again