Programs

This annual lecture and award ceremony recognizes a nurse historian that has contributed significantly to the public's understanding of nursing history and the development of the health care system.

"America in the 1930s" offers a substantial collection of film, print, audio media from the Depression-era U.S., as well as an archive of art objects, achitecture, and design from this historical period.

All Cavalier Band Camps offers leadership training, use of U.Va.'s state-of-the-are facilities, tours of historical sites around U.Va. Grounds, a "How To" session with U.Va. Admissions official on preparing to apply to universities and a special culminating performance involving all camp groups on U.Va. grounds

This electronic guide to African- American documentary resources in North Carolina is fully searchable and provides brief descriptions of principal collections connected to the Afro-American experience in North Carolina.

Special Collections offers rich possibility for academic growth and exploration. Comprised of thousands of manuscripts, rare books, maps, and archives, the collection preserves the physical artifacts of our cultural, literary, and historical landscape. Classes held in Special Collections strive to acquaint students with this landscape and to provide maps to help navigate the past.

The Commonwealth of Virginia Campaign gives state employees an easy way to contribute to charities of their choice.

Videotaped interviews of African- American leaders, conducted chiefly by Civil Rights historian Julian Bond. These oral histories focus both on the historical circumstances of individuals' lives and on the tranformational role of the civil rights movement in America.

The purpose of the Introduction to Engineering (ITE) program is to acquaint high school students with engineering, mathematics, and science, and also serves to inform them about the requirements and demands of undergraduate studies in engineering at UVA.

This Plymouth Colony Archive presents a collection of fully searchable texts, including: court records, colony laws, seventeenth century journals and memoirs, probate inventories, wills, town plans, maps, and fort plans; research and seminar analyses of numerous topics; biographical profiles of selected colonists; and architectural, archaeological and material culture studies.

The Regional Councils are volunteer groups of individuals representing the diversities of the areas they serve. They are assisted by Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFH) staff in their efforts to promote regional awareness of the humanities and to encourage local use of VFH resources. They also work, together with VFH, to identify and serve the special needs of their regions and to create programs that preserve, invigorate, and celebrate their regions' unique historical and cultural identities.