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The Williamsburg Documentary Project collects, preserves, interprets, and distributes information on the Williamsburg area’s rich non-colonial history. The WDP collection contains oral histories and digital artifacts pertaining to Williamsburg and the College of William and Mary in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The project is run by the American Studies Program at the College of William and Mary, and American Studies undergraduate students provide most of the research work for the Project.

The WDP collects materials on a wide variety of topics, but a few particularly rich clusters of materials have accrued around the following topics: development and expansion, with a focus on the Duke of Gloucester Street and New Town (in James City County); African American life, with particular attention to desegregation; the Catholic and Jewish communities; transformations in the experience of childhood; changes in local agriculture; leisure practices, especially movie-going, local music, and golf; the history of the William & Mary radio station, WCWM; the history and experiences of undocumented immigrants; a local organization dedicated to interracial understanding and relations, All Together; and the history and discourses surrounding the "Wren Cross controversy" and the resignation of President Gene Nichol (2005-08).

For more information about the project please visit the WDP on the web at: http://www.wm.edu/americanstudies/wdp/