Special Collections and University Archives Resources for EDHE6064

An underground progressive newspaper published by The Blacksburg Free Press between 1968 and 1970. The articles were written mainly by Virginia Tech students and members of the Blacksburg community. Issues were printed on roughly a bi-weekly basis.

In the days and weeks following the events of April 16, 2007, Virginia Tech received thousands of cards and letters of support, posters, banners, art, poetry, wreaths, memory books, and other unique items from around the world. In the summer of 2007 representative artifacts were digitally photographed to share with the world. This is the online collection of those photographs.

Developed by former University Archivist, Tamara Kennelly, these timelines use materials from the University Archives to relate the history of Black people at Virginia Tech. There are timelines for pre-1950s and ever decade from the 1950s through the 2010s.

A collection of digitized copies of the Bugle, Virginia Tech's yearbook, from 1895 through 1989.

Developed in conjunction with the Women's Center at Virginia Tech, this timeline uses materials from Special Collections and University Archives collections to explore the history of women's experiences at Virginia Tech.

This collection is under development. The project is gathering official university communications about the university's response and submissions from the Virginia Tech community about their experiences during the COVID-19 global pandemic.

This exhibit explores significant events surrounding the history of the Indigenous community at Virginia Tech and the surrounding areas. This project is a work-in-progress. Information on Virginian tribes and Indigenous Peoples at Virginia Tech is being received, updated, and revised continually.

This collection includes digitized copies of Virginia Tech's Minority Newsletter/Diversity News, a campus newsletter mainly focused on issues of concern to the Virginia Tech Black community. The collection includes issues from 1981 through 2002.

Developed in association with the VT LGBTQ+ Oral History Project, this timeline explores the history of LGBTQ+ experience at Virginia Tech from the 1970s through 2019.

Early women students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI) were not allowed to be in The Bugle yearbook. For several years after they were first admitted, they produced their own yearbook, called The Tin Horn. Four issues of the The Tin Horn were published. The 1925 and 1929 issues were produced by hand. Issues in 1930 and 1931 were published by professional printers.

This collection includes publications from Virginia Tech offices and administrators. VTechWorks, Virginia Tech's open access institutional repository, publicizes and preserves the scholarly work of Virginia Tech faculty, students, and staff: journal articles, books, theses, dissertations, conference papers, slide presentations, technical reports, working papers, administrative documents, videos, images, datasets, and more.

Our platform for digital photographs, documents, and oral histories.