Collecting duplicate editions of the first UVA law books is a cornerstone project of the UVA Law Library. Marsha Trimble, former Special Collections Librarian at the UVA Law Library, began the effort to reconstruct this historical law library in the 1980s. Law Archives staff have continued her efforts, and today the Law Library’s 1828 Catalogue Collection includes 317 of UVA’s original 375 legal titles. Although none of these books are the originals that once sat in the rotunda library, they are exact duplicate copies.

The University of Virginia Law Library's collection of Scottish Court of Session Papers consists of printed and formerly bound case materials presented before the Court of Session, the highest civil court in Scotland, from 1759 to 1834. As a court of appeal and of first instance, the Court of Session in this period held jurisdiction over contract and commercial cases, matters of succession and land ownership, divorce proceedings, intellectual property and copyright disputes, and contested political elections.

The Mind is a Metaphor, is an evolving work of reference, an ever more interactive, more solidly constructed collection of mental metaphorics. This collection of eighteenth-century metaphors of mind serves as the basis for a scholarly study of the metaphors and root-images appealed to by the novelists, poets, dramatists, essayists, philosophers, belle-lettrists, preachers, and pamphleteers of the long eighteenth century.

Depressed, post-industrial U.S. economies crystalized after World War Two as labor costs, information technology, and changing demand took hold. Initially considered to be sporadic or temporary, persistent and substantial job losses began as early as the 1920s in some cities and were most pronounced in communities whose fortunes had been long associated with coal, textiles, manufacturing, and steel. Cities Without Work: The Long Road from Boom to Bust is the collective narrative of the seventeen American cities with the highest rates of unemployment in 1960.

Inhabiting Byzantine Athens is an archaeological project that challenges traditional approaches to Byzantine urbanism and to Byzantine Athens in particular. Focusing on the area of the Athenian Agora, the project will trace architectural and functional changes in the city from the 4th c. to the 15th c. AD, so as to better understand the topography, spatial layout and living conditions of Byzantine and Frankish Athens.

The Valley of the Shadow is a digital archive of primary sources that document the lives of people in Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania, during the era of the American Civil War.

The World of Dante is a multi-media research tool intended to facilitate the study of the Divine Comedy through a wide range of offerings. These include an encoded Italian text which allows for structured searches and analyses, an English translation, interactive maps, diagrams, music, a database, timeline and gallery of illustrations. Many of these features allow users to engage the poem dynamically through the integrated components of this site.

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The Archaeology of Legal Definitions of Speech uses natural language processing to chart changes in the legal definition of speech and to place this language in its cultural and technological contexts. Drawing on a large corpus of Supreme Court decisions dealing with the First Amendment, the Archaeology identifies the terminology associated with speech in different historical periods, highlighting discontinuities in the way the law defines and delimits speech and drawing attention to the specific meanings of the concept in the past.