History is in the details.
Come take a closer look.
Documents, photographs, recollections, and research—organized for discovery, pastoral reading, and deeper study.
Start with a discovery, then follow it to the source. These exhibits bring together original documents, photographs, historical writing, and research from Dr. Bartley Wooten’s collection.
10 exhibits & resources
Broadus at UVA
Student, teacher, chaplain—and a period panorama of the university in 1856.
Explore the university years ↗
Written in stone
Explore the grave marker, enlarge its portrait, and read the words chosen to remember Broadus.
Explore the memorial ↗
A seminary in the city
Explore the earlier downtown campus and place it alongside the seminary’s move to Lexington Road.
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The newspaper remembers
Enlarge the original tribute, find the portrait, and read the voices of remembrance.
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Lottie Moon’s classroom
Find her name in a student list, meet the teachers, and examine the school’s actual exam questions.
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Beyond the public life
Selected family images, historical relationships, and the clues preserved in correspondence.
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A friend. An argument.
Read Whitsitt’s recollections alongside Robertson’s defense of Virginia’s elective system.
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A life in the details
Open a focused Broadus excerpt or explore the complete Virginia Baptist Ministers volume.
Explore this collection ↗For the pastor’s study
A preaching paper, research highlights, and questions connecting historical reading with ministry.
Explore this collection ↗Follow the footnotes
Search the supplied research bibliography for authors, works, institutions, and ideas.
Explore this collection ↗A collection built around its sources
Original records, later recollections, and research compilations are identified as different kinds of evidence. Selected source images can be enlarged. Sensitive family contact information is omitted, and uncertain identifications remain qualified.
Where the uploaded materials fit
- Three grave-marker photographs → Written in stone.
- Earlier seminary photograph → Places & campuses.
- Newspaper tribute → The newspaper remembers.
- Albemarle catalogue (two identical uploads) and Albemarle research notes, plus Hart’s 1858 trustee report → Lottie Moon’s classroom.
- Whitsitt and Robertson 1907 articles → Historical voices.
- Virginia Baptist Ministers → Biographical reading.
- Wirey’s 2018 family compilation, the Margaret Wood family tree and correspondence, Broadus Family Misc, and the Arthur E. Broadus compilation → Family & memory, through selected images and summaries.
- Wooten’s 2017 preaching paper and Highlights from Broadus → The pastor’s study.
- Diss Bibliography → Searchable research bibliography.