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Exhibit Title Dates
Bestsellers: Popular Fiction in America February - August 21, 2012
Global Collections at the U.Va. Library: Engaging the World September 30, 2010 - December 15, 2011
An Army of 100,000,000: Celebrating 100 Years of Government Information at U.Va. [Lower Gallery] October 28, 2010 - January 15, 2011

From Village to Grounds: Architecture after Jefferson at the University of Virginia [Main Gallery]

September 15, 2009 - July 31, 2010

The Making of Mark Twain and American Culture: A Commemoration of the Centennial of His Death [Lower Gallery]

January 18, 2010 - August 1, 2010

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Man and the Movement [Lower Gallery]

January 25 - February 28, 2010

On the Origin of Species at 150: The Evolution of an Idea
(Learn more about the exhibit on UVa Today.) [Lower Gallery]

October 14, 2009 - January 11, 2010
Bibliophiles and Bibliographers: Establishing Special Collections at the University of Virginia [Lower Gallery] August 1, 2009 - October 1, 2009
From Out That Shadow: the Life and Legacy of Edgar Allan Poe (Press Release) [Main Gallery] March 7, 2009 - August 1, 2009
Adaptation: Translating the Novel into Film [Lower Gallery] October 2008 - February 2009
On The Map (Press Release) [Main Gallery] January 28, 2008- January 1, 2009
Virginia Visions [Main Gallery] May 18, 2007- December 8, 2007
The Firebird and the Factory: Modern Russian Children's Books [Main Gallery] December 8, 2006- April 18, 2007
The Style of Power: Building a New Nation [Main Gallery] February 7 - September 30, 2006
American Journeys: Columbus to Kerouac [Main Gallery] November 9, 2005-January 3, 2006
Building the University Library April 7 - August 27, 2004
Portraits from the Golden Age of Jazz: Photographs by William P. Gottlieb November 14, 2003 - March 5, 2004
Breaking and Making Tradition: Women at the University of Virginia May 16, 2003- November 3, 2003
Lewis & Clark: The Maps of Exploration 1507 - 1814 November 11, 2002 - May 5, 2003
In the Brilliancy of the Footlights: Creating America's Theatre June 21 - October 26, 2002
Rave Reviews: Bestselling Fiction in America February 22, 2002- June 10, 2002
Lift Every Voice: Music in American Life September 28, 2001- February 11, 2002
Private Passions, Public Legacy : Paul Mellon's Personal Library at the University of Virginia March 2, 2001-September 18, 2001
CENSORED: Wielding the Red Pen September 29, 2000 - February 19, 2001
Pop Goes the Page: Movable and Mechanical Books from the Brenda Forman Collection May 12, 2000-August 18, 2000
Red, White, Blue and Brimstone: New World Literature and the American Millennium November 19, 1999-April 28, 2000
All the Hoos in Hooville: 175 Years of Life at the University of Virginia June 1, 1999-October 30, 1999
Sublime Anxiety: the Gothic Family and the Outsider October 15, 1998-March 31, 1999
The James Rogers McConnell Memorial Collections 1998
The Psychedelic '60s: Literary Traditions and Social Change April 1 - September 15, 1998
The Barrett Daycare Center, 1935- 1998
The Tibetan Book of the Dead: Literature on Prayer, Ritual, and Meditation from the Religious Traditions of Tibet, India, and Nepal November 2, 1997 - March 14, 1998
Hearts at Home: Southern Women in the Civil War August 2 - October 15, 1997
Landmarks of American Nature Writing from Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley April 27 through July 14, 1997
The Most of Special Collections January 20 through April 7, 1997
Muse and Confidante: the Angelica Schuyler Church Archive September through December, 1996
A Buyer's Market: A Selection of Recent Acquistions in Special Collections June through August, 1996
Books Go To War: The Armed Services Editions in World War II
(A Book Arts Press exhibition in the Dome Room of the Rotunda)
April 20, 1996-September 10, 1996
A Frost Bouquet: Robert Frost, His Family, and the Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature March 1, 1996-June 1, 1996
Recent Acquisitions in African-American History and Literature February 7, 1996-February 29, 1996
"Arise and Build!" A Centennial Commemoration of the 1895 Rotunda Fire October 6, 1995-February 6, 1996
Exploring the West from Monticello: A Perspective in Maps from Columbus to Lewis and Clark July 10, 1995-September 26, 1995
To Seek the Peace of the City: Jewish Life in Charlottesville From a 1994 exhibit at the Albemarle County Historical Society, sponsored by Hillel Jewish Center, UVa and Congregation Beth Israel


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