Celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Walt Whitman, the exhibition pays tribute to the incalculable cultural influence of the great American poet through display of first printings of his immortal work, Leaves of Grass, early drafts of his poems in manuscript, personal correspondence, and photographs.
After nearly a century, everything first published in 1923 has finally ascended to the public domain and is free for all to use and share. An exhibition by the UVA Library tells the story of copyright, from Jefferson to how 1923 got free, and what took so long.
A Black History Month 2019 exhibition of select anonymous and familiar African-American images from the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library. Individually and collectively, these faces are of those whose ordinary or extraordinary achievements for themselves and their communities shaped a nation.
The University of Virginia Library is a member of the Whitman 2019 Consortium, a collective of east coast organizations, institutions, venues, and individuals planning events in celebration of the poet’s 200th birthday.
Chief Exhibition Curator George Riser on the early publications and poems that preceded Whitman's 1855 publication of Leaves of Grass.
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