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Dr. Heather Huyck, public historian and former director of the Jamestown 400th Project, will be a guest speaker this Wednesday evening. A specialist on the preservation of women’s history sites and author of Women’s History: Sites and Resources, Dr. Huyck will present a talk entitled “Revealing Women: Using Tangible Resources to Preserve, Research and Interpret American [...]

Monday, October 3rd, 7 pm Great Hall, Woodard Campus Center (UMW) Susan Kern, Visiting Assistant Professor of History at the College of William & Mary and author of The Jeffersons at Shadwell, will deliver this year’s James Monroe Lecture. Merging archaeology, material culture, and social history, Kern’s talk will reconstruct the fascinating story of Shadwell, the birthplace of [...]

College Sophomores and Juniors: Gilder Lehrman History Scholars Program is open for applications. The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History in New York City invites college sophomores and juniors with a passion for American history, and academic excellence in the field, to contact: scholars@gilderlehrman.org.  Application deadline is February 15, 2011. URL: www.gilderlehrman.org/historyscholars.html

The Human Rights Campaign Foundation awarded a Generation Equality Scholarship to University of Mary Washington junior Charles Girard ’12. The $500 scholarship recently was awarded as part of the HRC Foundation’s Youth and Campus Outreach Program, which aims to provide tools, facilitate connections, and empower young people to fight for LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and [...]

Years of Anguish banner Years of Anguish:  The Coming Storm The Fredericksburg Area Museum and Cultural Center, the National Park Service, and the University of Mary Washington are pleased to announce the first major event of the observance of the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War in Fredericksburg.  On November 20, 2010, the Fredericksburg Area Museum [...]

Dr. John Parker will give a presentation, “Russia, Iran, and the Nuclear Issue:  A Quarter Century of Twists and Turns,” on Thursday, October 28, 7pm (Combs 237). Dr. Parker is Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University. His most recent book is Persian Dreams: Moscow and Tehran [...]

After a two-year hiatus the Virginia Indian Festival is returning to Riverbend Park on Saturday, September 11, 2010, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The festival will be held rain or shine and will feature members from eight tribes native to Virginia – Chickahominy Tribe, Monacan Nation, Upper Mattaponi Tribe, Rappahannock Tribe, Pamunkey Tribe, Mattaponi, and Tauxenent [...]

Marissa S. Allison, a History and Middle Eastern Studies graduate (2010) of the University of Mary Washington, has won a Critical Language Scholarship from the United States Department of State. With this prestigious award, she will travel to Muscat, Oman for a 9 weeks of intensive study of the Arabic language. As noted in UMW’s [...]

Farrah Tek,  who presented her senior thesis, “Victims Participation in the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC): A Look at the Revolutionary Process,” at the History and American Studies Symposium this spring, has been awarded a Fulbright scholarship. With this award, Farrah Tek will work alongside the Victim Units of the Extraordinary Chambers [...]

Students may vote for the next year’s student representatives for History and American Studies now. To do so, simply download the ballot here, print out and cast your vote, then return it to Ms. Lisa Patton at Mercer 308. The deadline for voting is next Thursday, April 22nd. Link for Downloadable Ballot: Ballot