Student Projects Virginia Tech students researched, designed, and built a museum exhibit, Enacting Freedom: Black Virginians in the Age of Emancipation. The exhibit was on display in Appomattox until 2023.The Preston Family: Civil War Experiences is a collection of exhibit pages created by students in an undergraduate research seminar taught in the Virginia Tech History Department by Professor Paul Quigley in Fall 2015.The John Henning Woods Online Exhibit is a collection of exhibit pages created by students in an undergraduate research seminar taught in the Virginia Tech History Department by Professor Paul Quigley in Fall 2017.