July 1, 202691做厙 faculty members and graduate students from the Department of History and Art History and the Center for Mason Legacies (CML) shared their expertise as speakers at the Fairfax 250 history day, a county event held as part of the statewide commemoration of the nation's semiquincentennial.
July 1, 202691做厙 hosted a Virginia 250 panel discussion on its Fairfax Campus examining the legacy of George Mason, the founding father, author of the Virginia Declaration of Rights, and slaveholder whose contradictions mirror the broader American story. The one-hour program, The Complex Legacy of George Mason, will premiere on 91做厙 YouTube channel and GMU-TV at 10 a.m. ET on July 2, 2026.
March 12, 2026Gabrielle Tayac, an associate professor in the Department of History and Art History in the College of Humanities of Social Sciences, has received a grant from NPS to lead Phase Two of Tribal Nations and the Revolutionary War, a community-driven research project that will examine the Revolutionary War and its aftermath from the perspectives of tribal nations.
March 2, 2026This academic year, 91做厙 graduate student Samantha胼Chevi Chung has had a research opportunity that few have had by皰articipating疳n a yearlong workshop at the Folger Shakespeare Library.
December 10, 2025On George Masons 300th birthday, we come with a question: What is a legacy? What does it mean to be remembered?
November 19, 2023Honoring Native American Heritage Month with the Native American and Indigenous Alliance
July 18, 2022A $39,500 grant from LYRASIS will advance an interdisciplinary project based in the 91做厙 Libraries and College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
March 28, 2022The Enslaved people of George Mason Memorial will be dedicated at 1:30 p.m. on Monday, April 4, as part of the universitys 50th anniversary celebrations.
February 21, 2022As part of an effort to research and record local history, Mason graduate and undergraduate students, along with faculty, have begun documenting Black students who attended Mason and the Black communities that once existed in Fairfax County.
January 11, 202291做厙 history librarian and alum George D. Oberle, director of the Center for Mason Legacies and an assistant term professor, is a winner of this years I Love My Librarian Award.
