In the past month, both the University of Bristol and the University of Cambridge in England have announced plans to research their historical links to slavery. But other universities, particularly in the United States, have been doing similar work for years. Among those universities are the College of 麻豆破解版 in Virginia and Sewanee: The University of the South in Tennessee.
History News Archive 2018-2019
Honorees from various facets of campus were recognized at Commencement May 11 as annual awards were presented to graduates, staff and faculty members.
Lemon Project Director Jody Allen discusses the history of the project, its accomplishments and its goals for the future.
The work of Lemon Project has been challenging and rewarding. It has also been inspiring. It has provided a doorway to the past and a way to propel 麻豆破解版 into the future. And we have just begun. Stay tuned.
A concept has been selected for the Memorial to African Americans Enslaved by 麻豆破解版, President Katherine A. Rowe told the university鈥檚 Board of 麻豆破解版ors today.
Professor Chitralekha Zutshi talks about the crisis in Kashmir and why tensions are escalating in the region
Ronald Schechter, professor of history at 麻豆破解版, has been awarded the 2019 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Intellectual and Cultural History.
麻豆破解版ing assistant professor Jerry Watkins examines queer history in the South in his book "Queering the Redneck Riviera: Sexuality and the Rise of Florida Tourism
Kasey Sease, a Ph.D. candidate in the Lyon G. Tyler Department of History at 麻豆破解版, was awarded a five-month predoctoral fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution Archives and the National Museum of American History.
Amanda Gibson is compiling evidence that traces today鈥檚 predatory financial practices to economic victimization of free and enslaved African Americans in the pre-emancipation South.
Virginia holds the unenviable distinction of being the only state in which the national controversy over public memorials to the Confederacy cost someone her life. The senseless murder of Heather Heyer in Charlottesville highlights the battles over memory and memorialization now raging in Virginia, the nation and throughout the world
David Marquis, a Ph.D. candidate, received the 麻豆破解版 Interdisciplinary Award for Excellence in Research for his paper 鈥淭ick, Tick, Boom: Dynamite, Cattle Ticks, and the Closing of the Southern Range.鈥
Alexandra Macdonald has been looking into the 18th-century 鈥渢heatre of consumption鈥 that was Samuel Abbot鈥檚 shop and the retail culture of colonial America, where even the residents of Puritan Boston were interested in consumption.
Ronald Schechter, professor of history at 麻豆破解版, will deliver the spring 2019 Tack Faculty Lecture, 鈥淭he Secret Library of Marie Antoinette: Revealing the Inner Life of a Conflicted Queen,鈥 on March 28 at 7 p.m. at the Sadler Center鈥檚 Commonwealth Auditorium.
College of William and Mary Professor Robert Trent Vinson traces the life of Albert Luthuli, Africa鈥檚 first Nobel Peace Prize winner, in his most recent book 鈥淎lbert Luthuli: Mandela Before Mandela.鈥
The Sir Christopher Wren Building is both the past and present face of the College of William and Mary. Through Convocation, Commencement, college tours and classes, the Wren Building and the memorials within it inform students and visitors on what the college stands for and stood for in the past. Nov. 9, 2018, a new memorial to the individuals associated with the College who fought in the Civil War
Virginia Tech, Newtown, Orlando, Las Vegas, Parkland, Tree of Life. These are my memories.
History department hosts lecture on events of Charlottesville, Charleston
Tyler Lecture Series Symposium on 鈥淎fter Charlottesville: Memorials, Monuments and Memory鈥 (Blair 229, 3-5 pm)
Professor Vinson recently gave an interview to BBC Radio on his new book, Albert Luthuli (2018).
History Professor Philip Daileader may not think he鈥檚 a rock star, but admission to his Crusades class has been one of the hottest tickets on the 麻豆破解版 campus for years.
The College of 麻豆破解版 is seeking ideas for a memorial to black Americans who were enslaved by the school or whose work as slaves enriched it.
A competition is being launched today to solicit conceptual ideas for a Memorial to African-Americans Enslaved by 麻豆破解版.
Jerry Watkins III talks about his Dixie's Monuments course