November 20, 2024Â鶹ÊÓƵ associate professor Gabrielle Tayac’s course, HIST 397 Public History in Action, looks at how indigenous communities interact with our student population through community-based engagement and projects.
July 24, 2024Are you a fan of Netflix’s Bridgerton? Can you see yourself hanging out with the rest of the Ton attending extravagant balls in over-the-top gowns? Well before you do, you might want a quick lesson on the real traditions that took place during the Regency Era, and Dina Copelman, associate professor emerita of history and cultural studies at Â鶹ÊÓƵ, tells all about the facts and the fiction of all three seasons of the Shondaland drama.
May 1, 2024Â鶹ÊÓƵ students taking Art History 495/595 Curating an Exhibition worked together to take an exhibit of South African art from conception to completion this spring.
April 2, 2024Â鶹ÊÓƵ adjunct professor David J. Gerleman has been selected as a recipient of a 2024-25 Fulbright Scholar Award. He will teach two courses at the University of Debrecen, one of Hungary's most prestigious higher education institutions.
October 31, 2023The annual Campus Legends and Lore Walking Tour takes the Â鶹ÊÓƵ community on a spooky stroll around Fairfax Campus with an educational twist.
June 6, 2023Â鶹ÊÓƵ Egyptologist Jacquelyn Williamson shares her expertise in episodes of the new Netflix historical docuseries Queen Cleopatra.
March 16, 2023In his book, The Beat Cop: Chicago's Chief O'Neill and the Creation of Irish Music, Â鶹ÊÓƵ history professor Michael O’Malley recounts the life of Irish immigrant and Chicago chief of police Francis O’Neill and his influence on Irish music.
February 9, 2023Â鶹ÊÓƵ historian Yevette Richards Jordan focuses her research lens on African American history, with an emphasis on racist violence from the 1920s through the 1940s. For the past several years, however, her work has led her to uncover a hidden history of racial violence that struck her own family, and the trauma of that violence that continues today.
January 25, 2023Three decades ago, Rosemarie Zagarri never imagined her dissertation research on 18th-century electoral politics would become urgently relevant to the preservation of democracy in 21st-century America.
October 10, 2022On Friday, October 7, Â鶹ÊÓƵ dedicated a Virginia historic site and celebrated the university–community partnership that helped preserved it.
