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Books and resources for Black History Month 2025

By UVA Library |
Featured in this post are two collections of primary sources for historical research, a biography of a Union Army soldier, and a history of the Freedman’s Bank by a UVA history professor.

Black history month, Reading list

Newly gifted collection illustrates the story of a young refugee who escaped Nazi Germany

By Amber Lautigar Reichert |
Herbert Friedman, a day shy of 14 years old, boarded a train in Austria bound for England. It was the eve of World War II, and he was one of thousands of children rescued from Nazi-controlled territory across Europe. Eighty-seven years after Friedman’s departure from Austria, his personal effects — including the number assigned to him on that fateful train — were gifted to UVA Library by his sons.

Featured resources

UVA Library receives Library Excellence in Access and Diversity (LEAD) Award

By UVA Library |
Insight Into Diversity magazine, the largest and oldest diversity and inclusion publication in higher education, is honoring academic libraries’ programs and initiatives that encourage and support inclusive excellence and belonging.

Culture, engagement, and community, News and announcements

‘It does matter’: Inhabiting Byzantine Athens

By Jeff Hill |
The Library’s Scholars’ Lab is helping Professor Fotini Kondyli with archaeological data visualization for her "Inhabiting Byzantine Athens” project.

Featured resources, Grants and special projects, Library stories

The original Cavalier Daily

By Jeff Hill |
The new College Topics online archive, from Vol. I, No. 1 of January 15, 1890 to Vol. XXVII, No. 64 of June 14, 1916, represents a run of 1,270 issues and 7,663 pages.

Featured resources, Library stories

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