Search

This collection contains items from Donald Black's life and career, spanning from the 1930s up until 2023, ranging from personal memorabilia from his high school years, to his research in graduate school, to drafts of his major published works, to his professional involvement as a leader in sociology and professor at the University of Virginia, including forthright and meaningful correspondence with colleagues and adversaries about sociology theories from academic institutions across the world leading up to his retirement from the University of Virginia in 2016.

This collection contains items from Donald Black's life and career, spanning from the 1930s up until 2023, ranging from personal memorabilia from his high school years, to his research in graduate school, to drafts of his major published works, to his professional involvement as a leader in sociology and professor at the University of Virginia, including forthright and meaningful correspondence with colleagues and adversaries about sociology theories from academic institutions across the world leading up to his retirement from the University of Virginia in 2016.

The collection currently includes publications created by the Office of First Year Experience for new students at William & Mary. Included are New Student Guides, Orientation Aide manuals, and orientation schedules.

The collection includes 185 titles spanning 200 years; all related to George Washington, his family, and Mount Vernon.

The Don Eugene Detmer papers contain speeches, reprints, policy documents, committee meeting records, articles, correspondence, editorials, and born-digital materials that relate to the professional life of Don Eugene Detmer. Materials particularly document Dr. Detmer's work during 1973-2004 working at the Department of Surgery at the University of Wisconsin, the Department of Surgery and the Department of Medical Informatics at the University of Utah, the University of Virginia, and the University of Cambridge. Other materials relate to the Institute of Medicine, the UVA Health System, the American Medical Informatics Association, the China Medical Board of New York, the Friends of the National Library of Medicine, the American Association of Medical Colleges, and the Nuffield Trust.

This collection contains the papers of Susan Richard Shreve (b. 1939), a prominent American author, a professor of Creative Writing at George Mason University and a co-founder of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation (1985) for which she served as a board member and chairman.