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. Learn more about this initiative.
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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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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The diary of Henry Boswell Jones of Brownsburg
Henry Boswell Jones
Jones was a prominent farmer in Brownsburg, Virginia with an active public life. In his diary (1841-1872), he documented his daily life and social events, as well as meteorological conditions, agricultural practices, and information about enslaved people.
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