Special Collections Research Center

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Exhibits

Exhibits

Featured Exhibit

Closeup of the Wealth of Nations opened to the title page

250th Anniversary of the Wealth of Nations

On Display: April 6 - December 26, 2026

Location: McLeod Business Library, Miller Hall

The McLeod Business Library, in collaboration with W&M Libraries Special Collections Research Center, is proud to present an exhibit honoring the 250th anniversary of Adam Smith's An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

  • A historical engraving of a Black man in a suit overlayed on top of a map with the text "Un/Bound Free Black Virginians 1619-1865"

    Un/Bound: Free Black Virginians, 1619-1865

    Traveling Exhibition

    On Display: March 17 - April 30, 2026

    Location: Read & Relax

    A traveling version of the Virginia Museum of History and Culture's exhibition, Un/Bound: Free Black Virginians, 1619-1865, which tells the stories of free Black Virginians from the arrival of the…