Digital Editions at W&L
“In the next fifty years the entirety of our inherited archive of cultural works will have to be reedited within a network of digital storage, access, and dissemination”.
-Jerome McGann, A New Republic of Letters: Memory and Scholarship in the Age of Digital Reproduction, 2014.
Digital Editions at W&L is an effort of Leyburn Library, Digital Humanities, and the Digital Culture and Information minor to publish edited and annotated texts from our Special Collections and Archives and the collections of our community partners.
Red House
Dr. Francis Lee Thurman
Old houses in the Valley of Virginia are not so old as those in Tidewater, but there are some of them of very great importance as keystones in history. Red House is one of these.
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A Twentieth-Century Highway Story
Gen. James A. Anderson
Traced the growth of Virginia's highways from its earliest surveys by Justice John Marshall before 1812 to the present excellent network serving towns and counties.
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1939 Remembered : Some Oral History of Fifty Years Ago
Hunter McClung, Mary Hope Pusey, Buck Buchanan, Bob Hunter, and Mary Frances Cummings
The 1989 Golden Anniversary picnic marked the Society's founding in 1939, with speakers sharing anecdotes on medical practices, hospital history, social life, customs, and community changes, offering a glimpse into Lexington's decades-long evolution.
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Buckle Down Winsocki, Washington and Lee during World War 2
Taylor L. Sanders II
The story of Washington and Lee university's expierience with World War 2
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The House Mountain Tragedy of 1846
Doug Harwood
A recount of the death of countless members of the Pettigrew family in 1846 and the posibility of a murder.
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The Great Flu Pandemic of 1918-19 in Rockbridge County, Virginia
Eileen T. Hinks
The influenza pandemic of 1918-19 affected even those living in rural areas such as Rockbridge County and its two cities, Lexington and Buena Vista.
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The Commissione
Republic of Venice
This piece is a Venetian commissione issued by Doge Marcantonio Giustinian to Gerolimo Morosini, the governor-elect of Verona.
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