Founded in 1749 as Augusta Academy in Augusta County, Virginia, Washington and Lee University is the ninth-oldest college in the United States. For close to a century, specific chapters of the ...

Completed in 1868 at the request of Washington College President Robert E. Lee, University Chapel (first known as “the College Chapel”) has been a gathering place for the campus community since its ...

Washington and Lee’s libraries and museums support the University’s educational mission by providing a wide range of materials for teaching, learning, and research. Our library and museum ...

Plans for Washington and Lee University’s Institutional History Museum are beginning to take shape. The university intends to build the new museum on an area of campus located near the intersection of ...

Washington and Lee is home to a variety of academic centers that support interdisciplinary inquiry, global exploration, community engagement, and teaching and learning. The Connolly Center for ...

Washington College began construction on the chapel in 1867 at the request of Robert E. Lee, who served as president of the institution from 1865 until his death 1870. Lee’s son, George Washington ...

Washington and Lee University’s name recognizes the pivotal roles of George Washington and Robert E. Lee in the institution’s history — Washington for his gift that rescued the struggling school in ...