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DCI 201: Fancy Dress 1980s
An institutional history digital exhibit created during Fall 2023 about the history of Fancy Dress during the 1980s.
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DCI 201: Coeducation (Fall 2023)
An institutional history digital exhibit created during Fall 2023 that highlights the University’s official coeducation process from 1980-1990.
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DCI 201: Evolving Images: The Portrayal of Women at Washington and Lee University (1960-2000)
An institutional history digital exhibit created during Fall 2023 that delves into the dynamic and often complex portrayal of women at Washington and Lee University from the 1960s to the 2000s.
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DCI 201: Contact Committee & Campus Speech Controversies
An institutional history digital exhibit created during Fall 2023 that is working to better understand W&L’s Contact Committee, its role in promoting free speech, and controversies surrounding freedom of expression on campus.
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DCI 201: Football
An institutional history digital exhibit created during Fall 2021 that portrays the story of competitive football at Washington and Lee University, a small, private, liberal arts university in Lexington, Virginia, through showing the evolution of the school as a pioneer of the sport, to dealing with academic scandal, and rebounding to become a prominent member of the NCAA Division III.
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DCI 201: Secret Societies
An institutional history digital exhibit created during Fall 2021 for DCI 201: Digital Collections and Exhibits that seeks to help broaden public knowledge of what secret societies are and their existence at Washington and Lee University.
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DCI 201: Music
An institutional history digital exhibit created during Fall 2021 for DCI 201: Digital Collections and Exhibits that details musical acts who performed at W&L from the 1940s through the 1990s.
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Spanish in W&L Special Collections
This interactive catalog and resource guide contains a selection of Spanish language materials from W&L Special Collections and Archive identified and described by students in Professor Julia Hernández's Spanish classes during the 2021-2022 academic year.
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On These Grounds: Documenting Slavery at W&L
On These Grounds: Documenting Slavery at W&L is a collaborative project to share the history of slavery at W&L through archival sources and an event-based data set. This website contains a preview of the data created by the W&L University Library and Institutional History departments.
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The Black Experience @ W&L
A digital exhibit created to help remember about the black experience at Washington and Lee University and, more largely, in United States history through African-American poetry and archival materials.
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The Black General
The Black General is a digital exhibit featured archival material and oral histories on the period of desegregation at W&L, the history of black student organizations, and other relevant material on the Black experience at W&L sourced from alumni, faculty, staff and Special Collections.
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Civil War Brownsburg: A Community's Civil War Experience
The Brownsburg Museum (Brownsburg, Rockbridge County, Virginia) and Washington and Lee University Special Collections would like to welcome you to “Civil War Brownsburg,” an online exhibit exploring this community’s Civil War experience, 1861-1865.
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Integration at W&L
Integration at W&L is dedicated to the presentation and aggregation of archival material that tells the story of Washington and Lee’s desegregation and integration from its foundation through the present.
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The Blackledge Collection of Roman Coins
A digital exhibit documented the women appearing on the Blackledge Collection of Roman Coins housed in Special Collections.
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DCI 201: Coeducation (Winter 2020)
An institutional history digital exhibit created during Winter 2020 that portrays the impacts of coeducation at Washington and Lee University, a small, private, liberal arts university in Lexington, Virginia, through evaluating its effects by comparing the university's social climate before and after the decision to become coeducated.
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DCI 201: Fancy Dress Gala
An institutional history digital exhibit created during Winter 2020 about the history of Fancy Dress, an annual formal gala, at Washington and Lee University.
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DCI 201: Mock Convention - Student Involvement
An institutional history digital exhibit created during Winter 2020 that compares student involvement in the 1980 and 2020 Washington and Lee University's Mock Conventions.
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DCI 201: Integration
An institutional history digital exhibit created during Winter 2020 about integration at Washington and Lee University, including the creation of Student Association for Black Unity (SABU).
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DCI 201: Mock Convention - Processes Through the Years
An institutional history digital exhibit created during Winter 2020 for DCI 201: Digital Collections and Exhibits that details the delegation selection of Mock Convention and how it has progressed as technology has advanced. This collection is primarily aimed towards Washington and Lee alumni but can also help to inform current students about the history of this tradition.