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The University of Virginia was only home to the poet and writer Edgar Allan Poe for 10 months. A new exhibition at UVA’s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library explores the pioneer of the detective novel’s time on Grounds and the lasting influence it had on him.

At the University of Virginia, faculty objections led university leadership to reject a proposed expansion of its Inclusive Access textbook program, according to The Cavalier Daily. 

Judith Thomas, director of faculty programs at the University of Virginia Library, told The College Fix via email that the Faculty Senate began reviewing the program, called “One Access,” after learning that the UVA bookstore was planning to implement it.

The due date stamped on the card inside the book read “May 19, 1954.” It bore the marks of the University of Virginia’s Alderman Library, now known as Shannon Library.

One exhibition explores Edgar Allan Poe's time as a UVA student, and the other details the Englishmen who played a part in both the colonization of Virginia and the draining of the English Fens.

Stacey LeClair is the first graduate student to lead the curation of a major exhibition at UVA’s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library.