The Library is offering a wide range of new online resources this spring. Log on with NetBadge to any of the databases below — find out what architecture can tell you about gender studies, or what performance design in the … Continue reading
If you’re looking for some readings by Black authors to add to your rotation, here are some “pre-approved” titles from Katrina Spencer, your Librarian for African American and African Studies. This list includes Black American authors. “Between the World and … Continue reading
“Sisterhood: Cultural Portraits of African-American Women,” is a 2020 Black History Month original exhibition on the 400-year redemptive odyssey of African-American womanhood, 1700s-2000s. From auction blocks to corporate boardrooms, this distinctive exhibition emphasizes the commonality of their praiseworthy lives and … Continue reading
On June 28, 1969 a police morals squad raided Greenwich Village’s Stonewall Inn, meeting resistance from the bar’s LGBT patrons. The spontaneous uprising helped spark the Gay Liberation movement and over time informally established June as LGBT Pride Month. Now, … Continue reading
March is Women’s History Month! Celebrate by learning about women’s experiences in America from colonial times to the mid-twentieth century in “North American Women’s Letters and Diaries.” You’ll find observations of history before it was history, when outcomes were far … Continue reading
The Library online resource Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present is more than a collection of biographical and critical information on British women writers. Orlando is a born-digital project designed to recover neglected … Continue reading
New! The Clemons Library video collection offers Kino Lorber’s 6 part DVD set Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers, providing a closer look at the part women played in transforming the lowly “flickers” into the phenomenon known today as “the movies.” Women were … Continue reading
As part of UVA’s Martin Luther King celebration, the Library and the Commerce school invite you to register and come to the 3rd Floor Art Gallery of Rouss Hall and Robertson Hall on Wednesday, January 23rd from 5:00–7:00 p.m. for a … Continue reading
In the wake of last summer’s white supremacist torchlight demonstration on the Lawn and the deadly “Unite the Right” rally, the Graduate Student Coalition for Liberation (CSCL) came together to publish the Charlottesville Syllabus—an alternative media platform they hope will … Continue reading
Lord Byron, Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, the Bronte sisters, Dickens, Conan Doyle, Kipling, H. G. Wells, Colonialism, Socialism. Experience the panorama of cultural, social, and political change in Victorian England captured in the pages of Britain’s popular press—now available from … Continue reading
