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NovaStroies Icon Nova Stories: Campus Life from the 1960s
This exhibit is a selection of University Archives material highlighting campus life in the 1960s. Digital Installation: May 17, 2019. Curated by Beaudry Rae Allen.

Zoo Icon Animals Through Human Eyes: Vintage Zoological Illustrations
This exhibit presents a selection of animal illustrations and examines how humans view and interact with different categories of animals. Digital Installation: March 27, 2018. Curated by: Marjorie Haines.

Wildcat Icon Wildcats Past and Present
This exhibit highlights the sports history of the University, in conjunction with the 175th anniversary of Villanova (1842-2017), by highlighting materials held in Falvey Library’s Special Collections and University Archives. Digital Installation: September 5, 2017. Curated by Susan Ottignon.

Russian Icon Blood & Soul: The Russian Revolutions of 1917
Commemorating the 100th Anniversaries of the 1917 Russian revolutions and the enthronement of St. Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow. Video Release: February 17, 2017. Curated by: F. John J. Perich

ADVERTISING Icon You Can Learn a Lot from ADVERTISING
This exhibit presents a selection of advertisements from the 19th and early 20th centuries that appeared in American print newspapers and magazines from the Digital Library@Villanova University. Digital Installation: December 31, 2016. Curated by: Susan Ottignon

Are We There Yet Icon Are We There Yet? Travel, Tourism, & Exploration
This exhibit highlights some of the travel-related materials in Falvey Library’s Special Collections. Digital Installation: October 11, 2016. Curated by: Kayla Van Osten & Laura Bang

EasterIcon To Strike for Freedom! The 1916 Easter Rising
A commemoration of the 100-year anniversary of Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising that highlights its American connections using materials from the Joseph McGarrity Collection. Digital Installation: March 16, 2016. Curated by: Staff

dime.jpg Paper for the People: Dime Novels and Early Mass Market Publishing
An overview of the diverse and action-packed fiction that provided one of the most popular forms of entertainment from the mid-19th to early-20th century. Digital Installation: June 6, 2013. Curated by: Demian Katz

dante.jpgDante Illustrated
This exhibit highlights several illustrated editions of the Divine Comedy owned by Falvey Memorial Library, Special Collections. Digital Installation: October 26, 2012. Curated by: Diane Biunno

mcgarrity.jpgJoseph McGarrity: Man of Action; Man of Letters
This exhibit explores the lesser-known side of the influential Philadelphia-based Irish republican leader Joseph McGarrity as a man of letters. Digital Installation: July 12, 2012. Curated by Brian J. McDonald

riots_icon.jpgChaos in the Streets: The Philadelphia Riots of 1844
Travel back in time to the Philadelphia Riots of 1844 from Villanova University's Digital Library. Digital Installation: December 8, 2011. Curated by Karla Irwin.

fenian_icon.jpgTorn Between Brothers: A look at the internal division that weakened the Fenian Brotherhood
This exhibit highlights the Fenian Brotherhood collection housed in the Villanova University Digital Library. Digital Installation: May 3, 2011. Curated by: Jean Turner.

confessions_icon.jpgTolle lege: The Confessions of St. Augustine
This exhibit highlights editions of Augustine's Confessions held in Special Collections. Digital Installation: November 3, 2010. Curated by: Laura Bang.

rambles_icon.jpgRambles, Sketches, Tours: Travellers & Tourism in Ireland
Take a tour through Ireland in this exhibit of Irish travel writing from the Joseph McGarrity Collection of Special Collections. Digital Installation: October 19, 2010. Curated by: Laura Bang.

jby_icon.jpgJack Butler Yeats: Drawings & Illustrations
This exhibit focuses on the drawings and illustrations of Jack B. Yeats found in Special Collections materials. Digital Installation: January 14, 2009. Curated by: Róisín Corry Roche.

lane_icon.jpgHistory Between the Pages: The Life of Samuel A. Lane
This exhibit highlights the exciting journey of one man’s life through the zeitgeist of the 19th century. Digital Installation: July 1, 2009. Curated by: Johanna Hibbs.

ArchiveIcon.pngLibrary Exhibits Archive
These pages contain archives of early digitized material from Falvey Library exhibitions, 2004-2007. Curated by: Various.

 

ShakespeareIcon.png Verse: Villanova Emends & Reads Shakespeare Edition
The Villanova Emends & Reads Shakespeare Edition (VERSE) is a digital humanities project to allow university students to read, comprehend and appreciate the works of Shakespeare for educational purposes while learning methods for analysis as a scholarly endeavor, including some basic systematic textual and hermeneutical techniques. Curated by: Darren Poley

Music_Icon.png Music in Twentieth Century American History
During the Fall 2016 semester, history majors enrolled in the Junior Research Seminar at Villanova University embarked on a multi-media and interdisciplinary examination of the cultural, social, political, and economic dimensions of music in American history from the end of the Civil War to the early 2000s. Digital Installation: Feb 3, 2017. Curated by: Paul Rosier

RememberingWWI.png Remembering WWI
This class delved into personal accounts of the First World War -- including scrapbooks, postcards, and more -- to bring the war to life and explore how individuals chose to remember such a momentous event. Digital Installation: April 19, 2015. Curated by: Deborah Boyer

GrecoRoman.png Travels Through Greco - Roman Antiquity
An examination of Greek and Roman life based on the imaginary journey of Anacharsis throughout Greece in the fourth century B.C.E. -- from The Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece by Jean Jacques Barthelemy. Digital Installation: February 16, 2015. Curated by: Valentina DeNardis

Ardmore.png The Ardmore Project: Suburban Life in the Early 20th Century
In Fall 2013, Villanova History students in a Junior Research Seminar ventured into the realm of Digital Humanities to reconstruct aspects of life and society in Ardmore, PA during the early twentieth century. Digital Installation: March 11, 2014. Curated by: Craig Bailey

Peru.png El Perú en sus tradiciones, en su historia, en su arte
A unique early 20th-century Peruvian manuscript held at Special Collections in the Falvey Memorial Library transcribed and annotated by a group of twenty undergraduate students in Fall 2013. Digital Installation: April 2, 2014. Curated by: Chad Leahy