IATH NEWS
Digging into History: Bringing to Light the Students of the Early University
January 28, 2015
Jean Cooper, Genealogical Information Specialist at UVA Library, will speak on “Digging into History: Bringing to Light the Students of the Early University” at 7pm on February 2 in Alderman 421. Her blog, Students of the University of Virginia, 1825-1874, uncovers biographies of the famous (and not-so-famous) students at UVA in the nineteenth century.
Cooper is the author of several books, including A Guide to Historic Charlottesville and Albemarle County, Virginia (History Press, 2007) and A Guide to Historic Charlottesville and Albemarle County, Virginia (Shortwood Press, 2011), and received the Virginia Genealogical Society’s Virginia Records Award in 2009 for her work in indexing the Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations microfilm collection
This presentation is sponsored by Jefferson's University, Early Life and IATH.
