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Three faculty members have been recognized with the Arts & Sciences award for teaching excellence.

�鶹�ƽ�� historian Lu Ann Homza runs a year-long, two-pronged program designed to develop and hone the skills necessary for students to read the handwritten documents in Spanish archives.

Karin Wulf, associate professor of history and American studies, and book review editor of The �鶹�ƽ�� Quarterly, one of the oldest scholarly journals in the U.S., has been named the next director of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture.

Registration now open for April 20 event featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author Eric Foner and six other notable historians.

The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is entitled How to spot a Lesbian in Early Modern Spain.

Scott Nelson's new book suggests that the current financial crisis is an example of history repeating itself.

Brett Rushforth's new book "Bonds of Alliance" details a "hybrid" form of slavery that developed in New France between 1670 and 1770.

History Professor Scott Nelson discusses his new book this week on With Good Reason.

Pictures taken at Commencement 2012

On April 30, 2012, Barry Martin, William and Mary class of 1959 presented the Lyon G. Tyler Department of History with a portrait of Carter Braxton (William and Mary alum, and signer of the Declaration of Independence), and a document signed by Braxton in honor of his classmate, Gabriel M. Wilner

The College of �鶹�ƽ�� will hold its first "Donning of the Kente" ceremony May 11, with more than 40 students expected to participate.

Two years after President Taylor Reveley demanded, "Get me the Griffin," the student inside the mascot costume is being revealed -- and just in time for him to graduate.

History professor captures the Philip Taft Labor History Award, the Merle Curti Award and the James Rawley Prize from national organizations.

History professor captures the Philip Taft Labor History Award, the Merle Curti Award and the James Rawley Prize from national organizations.

A new guidebook released today recognizes the College of �鶹�ƽ�� for having 10 of the country's best undergraduate teachers.

Spring symposium at Bruton Heights School draws 140 from the W&M, Williamsburg communities.

The College of �鶹�ƽ��'s second annual Lemon Project Spring Symposium is slated for March 17 at the Bruton Heights School in Williamsburg, Va.

�鶹�ƽ�� alumnus Frank “Beau” Wright ’10 was selected to intern at the White House this fall. He was one of ten Virginians and over 140 people nationwide to be selected.

Scott Nelson's forthcoming book looks at strangely familiar financial landscapes.

W&M professor of history Cindy Hahamovitch discusses her new book "No Man's Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor."

Ed Pompeian explores South America on a Fulbright Fellowship.

Associate Professor of History Andrew Fisher wins the 2011 Raft Debate in convincing fashion.

Professor Andrew Fisher wins the 2011 Raft Debate

The Raft Debate, a much beloved �鶹�ƽ�� tradition, will be held at the Commonwealth Auditorium in the Sadler Center, on Sept. 22 at 6:30 p.m.

Series of three lectures opens Thursday at Small Hall, room 110.

Gates will succeed retired U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, who will complete her term in February 2012.

Hiroshi Kitamura discusses his new book "Screening Enlightenment."

The History Department offers congratulations to Professor Cindy Hahamovitch for the publication of her new book, No Man’s Land: Jamaican Guestworkers and the Global History of Deportable Labor (Princeton University Press, 2011).

Rising senior will attend a pair of three-day seminars in the nation's capital to discuss national issues with experts.

W&M professor and three students have just returned from 12 days in Italy studying the Slow Food phenomenon.

“The local food movement is the single greatest change in food production and consumption in America in decades,” says David St. John '11. That's why he decided to make it the focus of his summer Monroe Scholar Project

Several awards are presented annually to graduates, staff and faculty members during the �鶹�ƽ�� Commencement ceremony.

Twenty exceptional �鶹�ƽ�� faculty members have received prestigious Plumeri Awards for Faculty Excellence this year.

In his new book, Paul Mapp details imperial ambitions regarding North America during the pivotal period from 1713-1763.

The �鶹�ƽ�� Board of �鶹�ƽ��ors recently appointed several faculty members to distinguished and designated professorships during the board's April meeting in Williamsburg.

�鶹�ƽ��'s Lemon Project was recently lauded by the College's chapter of the NAACP.

On April 24, the �鶹�ƽ�� chapter of the NAACP will present to the Department of History its 2011 Academic Department Award

At next September's meeting of the Board of �鶹�ƽ��ors, Provost Michael Halleran will recommend that Kveta (Tuska) Benes be designated the Clark G. and Elizabeth H. Diamond Associate Professor of History

The �鶹�ƽ�� Alumni Association has chosen Betsy Konefal as a recipient of a 2011 Alumni Fellowship Award.

The �鶹�ƽ�� Board of �鶹�ƽ��ors today unanimously elected alumnus Jeffrey B. Trammell '73 as the College’s next rector.

The Virginia Historical Society has awarded the Richard Slatten Award for Excellence in Virginia Biography to Susan Kern.

The lecture will be held at the School of Education at 4 p.m.

Provost Michael Halleran announced that he will recommened that the Board of �鶹�ƽ��ors name Associate Professor Robert Vinson as a University Professor for Teaching Excellence

Professor Scott Nelson has been named a recipient of a 2011 Plumeri Award for Faculty Excellence

Professor James Whittenburg will be among the first three recipients of the newly created Arts & Sciences Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence

Approximately 100 people gathered at the Bruton Heights School on March 19 to share knowledge, research findings and personal experiences during the Lemon Project’s Spring Symposium.