In this post, we introduce the newest member of the External Relations team, Sarah Thompson!
W&M Libraries Blog
Previous Posts
Apr 2016
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Posted on April 14, 2016The 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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Posted on April 6, 2016Bishop 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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Posted on April 1, 2016Before a collection makes its way to a researcher's table in the reading room, archivists take considerable time preparing it: sort
Mar 2016
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Posted on March 30, 2016The 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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Posted on March 23, 2016
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Posted on March 16, 2016The 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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Posted on March 9, 2016Napoleon and His Times, front free end paper (RB DC 203.c32 1838a)
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Posted on March 2, 2016Photograph of amphitheater ruins, 1979.
Feb 2016
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Posted on February 24, 2016Pirates, pirates, pirates!
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Posted on February 10, 2016One of the titles we will be showing in two upcoming instruction sessions this week, the 1483 Leaves from the Ninth German Bible (Biblia Nona Germanica), is the only one of our nine titles printed before 1500 that is in a language other than Latin.