Lincoln-signed copies of both the Emancipation Proclamation and 13th Amendment and a document handwritten by Frederick Douglass will be exhibited in the North Oval Room of the Rotunda. Rector of the Board of Visitors Frank M. “Rusty” Conner will provide remarks. Reflecting on these historic

Near the end of the University of Virginia’s spring semester, Katie Watts had a choice between writing a final paper or undertaking 16 more hours of labor on the model of UVA’s original Rotunda dome that her class was completing.

A University is like a city. At the University of Virginia, there are main thoroughfares that everyone frequents: the Lawn, the hallways of Nau Hall, the sidewalks between the Rotunda and the Corner.

And then there are places that are a little harder to access, spots that not everyone can walk