Anne E. Bromley

Students curated an exhibit, “Extinction in the Archive,” to accompany the symposium, “Burning the Library of Life: Species Extinction and the Humanities,” held as part of UVA’s Environmental Humanities Week.

The idea for a Memorial to Enslaved Laborers garnered widespread support not only from UVA students, faculty, staff and administrators, but also from people in the community, some of whom serve on the Community Engagement Committee.

A new exhibition celebrates political cartoonist Patrick Oliphant’s work and shows how and why he became the most widely syndicated, most influential political cartoonist in America.

The new book, “Educated in Tyranny: Slavery at Thomas Jefferson’s University,” published by University of Virginia Press, presents a detailed case study of how slavery functioned in the institution’s first 50 years.

The books are all right. A hardy band of workers is moving 1.7 million books and other items from Alderman Library, which will close in May for much-needed renovation, into the Ivy Stacks Building and Clemons Library.