Online Projects and Exhibits

Special Collections and University Archives Exhibits

Faculty, interns, and student assistants working with Simpson Library staff have created online inventories and exhibits featuring content from our collections. These sites include:

James Farmer Legacy 2020

Image Credit: White House Staff
“A Vote is a Counted Voice”: Celebrating the Centennial of a Woman’s Right to Vote, 2020
Charles M. Robinson’s Architectural Legacy at Mary Washington, 2018
Forgotten Sights of Mary Washington: Visions from 1957, 2015
UMW Libraries: A History, 2015
Technology through Time, 2015
Artifacts in the University Archives, 2014
The Lane Family at Brompton, 2014
James Boswell’s ‘Life of Johnson’: The First Modern Biography, 2012

Adventures in Digital History

At the University of Mary Washington, undergraduate students engage in a variety of multidisciplinary digital projects. Many of these projects utilize materials from Simpson Library’s Special Collections and University Archives, and arise out of assignments from digital history courses taught by history department faculty. Listed below are some samples of student work:

Rowe Family Scrapbooks, 2020
James Farmer at Mary Washington, 2020
UMW Academic Buildings, 2020

Image Credit: Adam Ewing
University of Mary Washington Then & Now, 2014
Century America: The State Normal and Industrial School and Fredericksburg, VA, 1914-1919, 2014
The James Farmer Lectures, 2012
Rare Book History, 2012
US Women’s History since 1870, 2012

Online Projects and Exhibits

Special Collections and University Archives Exhibits

Adventures in Digital History

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