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Group of fans celebrating basketball team

After securing the land for the new northern va college. What type of environmental impact did the university footprint have with tree clearing, existing wetlands and potentially farm rich soil. The image will represent the Farr Tract and give a…

Early photo record of fenwick library opening.

Team huddle of the George Mason Basketball team

This is an image of white students at GMU in the 1960's participating in a 'slave stale' clearly mocking the past that black people used to live just years before this. There are misleading signs on the three students intended to taunt slavery as the…

While many college sports fans are familiar with the George Mason University Men’s Basketball team’s run to the Final Four in 2006, not as many know about the Mason Women’s Soccer team’s National Championship title of 21 years earlier. The author of…

A young black man participates the winter commencement festival in which he is graduating the winter of 1971. This is during a time where there was still racial divide and turmoil within the GMU campus, which inherently could cause black students at…

A child of approximately 2 years of age plays with a toy at the Hourly Child Care Center at George Mason College. Center was located across Ox Road from the main part of the Fairfax Campus. Photo is from Spring,1971.

Center for Mason Legacies Director George D. Oberle III, a George Mason University associate professor of history and the university's history librarian, graciously agreed to provide this analysis, despite his numerous campus obligations and…

The need for on-campus childcare was confirmed through a study coordinated by a representative of student parents and GMC Chancellor Lorin Thompson. The intent is to provide hourly childcare at a low cost for student and faculty members of GMC…