The Bursar's Records contain accounting and financial information for the College of William and Mary dating back to the mid 1700s. Unfortunately, some of these records have been lost due to fires and other events. However, the surviving records contain a wide variety of information that illuminate different aspects of life in early Virginia.
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April 21, 2016Posted in: Special Collections
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April 14, 2016Posted in: Special CollectionsThe records of the Office of the Bursar contain a wide array of financial information dating back to the 18th century. Recently, these records have provided additional information about the College of William & Mary's involvement in slavery and the slave trade. Many of the documents contain references to enslaved people who were held by the College, as well as payments to slaveholders for hiring enslaved people.
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April 6, 2016Posted in: Special CollectionsBishop William Meade graduated at the top of his class at Princeton. He studied for the Episcopal ministry at a time when the fortunes of the Church in Virginia were at a nadir after the disestablishment caused by the Revolutionary War. He was ordained by Bishop James Madison who was also serving as President of the College of William and Mary. Along with Bishop Richard Channing Moore, he led a revival of the Church along evangelical lines.
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April 1, 2016Posted in: Special CollectionsBefore a collection makes its way to a researcher's table in the reading room, archivists take considerable time preparing it: sort
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March 30, 2016Posted in: Special CollectionsThe records of the Office of the Bursar are some of the earliest and most comprehensive records of the College of William and Mary, some from the 18th century survive to the present day! The accounts document the financial interactions of the College of William & Mary and its personnel in the 18th-19th centuries.
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March 23, 2016Posted in: Special Collections
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March 16, 2016Posted in: Special CollectionsThe Library of Congress's reconstruction of Thomas Jefferson's library now receives many visitors who wander through the remarkable library of a remarkable man, institutionalized at the very heart of the US government. The importance and preservation of the libraries of "great men" has been a part of our history for a long time; and most national, university, college, and other institutional libraries are based around those of white men.
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March 9, 2016Posted in: Special CollectionsNapoleon and His Times, front free end paper (RB DC 203.c32 1838a)
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March 2, 2016Posted in: Special CollectionsPhotograph of amphitheater ruins, 1979.
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February 24, 2016Posted in: Special CollectionsPirates, pirates, pirates!
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