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1818

The first public accusation that Thomas Jefferson fathered children by his slave, Sally Hemings,…

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1853

Two diary entries of John Hartwell Cocke, a close friend of Thomas Jefferson, that mention…

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1890

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Editors of the Cavalier Daily argue why organizations like the Jefferson Society and fraternity …
1927

Daisy Lundy, a University of Virginia student of Korean and African-American heritage, was…
1949

An interview with Fountain Hughes, a former slave in Charlottesville whose grandfather belonged to…

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1950

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Cavalier Daily article on student opinion about having "house mothers" present in dorms that jokes…
1950

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Cavalier Daily article on the establishment of a chapter of Kappa Beta Pi, an international legal…
1950

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Cavalier Daily article related to the ongoing conversation about placing housemothers in dorms. This…
1954

Lucille Parson, the wife of the Professor of Internal Medicine Dr. William Parson, was admitted as a…
1954

Cavalier Daily Apr 12, 1954 - Nobody Asked Me.pdf
A brief, wry paragraph commenting on a new ruling at Northwestern University permitting couples to…
1954

Three students were expelled and eight others suspended at the University of Virginia for their…
1954

Cavalier Daily May 14, 1954 - Easters 1984.pdf
An article imagines Easters at UVA in the future year 1984, and predicts that "because of the rapid…