This article highlights the recent book by co-authors Katherine Kuenzli and Kathleen James-Chakraborty, The Belgian Friendship Building: From the New York World’s Fair to a Virginia HBCU. It outlines the building’s complex transatlantic history, from its origins at the 1939 New York World’s Fair to its reconstruction at Virginia Union University.

The co-authors also discuss the book at the Library of Virginia on Thursday, 19 March, at 12:00 (free, registration required).