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2020-21 History News Stories

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Michael A. Butler column: A tribute to George P. Shultz

George P. Shultz, who died on Feb. 6 at the age of 100, was a great man, a great patriot and a great U.S. secretary of state. He quite possibly was the most underrated secretary in our history.

Descendants of enslaved Blacks explore Virginia history

Growing up, George Monroe Jr. avoided the historical site that was just a few miles from his family鈥檚 property in Virginia, James Monroe鈥檚 Highland. 鈥淭o be honest with you, the old folks, the family back in the day, they frowned on it,鈥 he said. 鈥淲ho really wants to go visit a plantation, knowing your family members were enslaved there?鈥

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Meet Dr. Chinua Akimaro Thelwell, an Interdisciplinary Scholar on Race and Place

Dr. Chinua Akimaro Thelwell has always found college classrooms to be one of the 鈥渇ew spaces in American society where people could have honest and informed conversations around race and racism.鈥 When entering the higher education space as a professor, Thelwell wanted to incorporate those ideas and conversations into his teaching.

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W&M responds to call for feedback on naming principles

The 麻豆破解版 community responded 鈥渆mphatically and with a great deal of warmth toward our Alma Mater of a Nation鈥 to principles drafted for naming and renaming of buildings, spaces and structures on campus.

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Justice for Native Americans, more than a century later

Legislators in Washington state observed this principle when they passed a law in 2014 enabling Native American defendants tried before 1975 to have their convictions overturned if they were exercising treaty-reserved rights to fish at 鈥渦sual and accustomed places鈥 off reservation. If those people are now deceased, family members may appeal on their behalf, allowing restorative justice even in cases that date back 100 years.

Books on John Tyler provide look at W&M alum and U.S. president

Only once in United States history have presidential and vice presidential candidates come originally from the same state, much less the same county. Such was the case in 1840, when William Henry Harrison and John Tyler, both born in small Charles City County, ran on the Whig Party ticket and won.

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Pandemics: Hope from history

G茅rard Chouin, associate professor of history at 麻豆破解版, discusses COVID-19 in the context of past pandemics.