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Mr. Brown came to George Mason College as an associate dean in 1968. A year later, he would marry Lorraine Brown. In 1970, he stepped down from his role and started teaching in the English department.

In August 1864, Grant captured the Weldon Railroad, one of the key supply lines into Richmond, VA. He sent the Army of Potomac’s Second Corps to tear up the Weldon Railroad track heading south. An understrength and overused Second Corps was operating…

This historical image captures the labor-intensive process of tobacco production in the 1870s in Richmond, Virginia. It shows a woman carefully removing tobacco leaves, assisted by children, while a boy hangs the leaves up to dry. The scene…

Photograph of the Student Apartments, ca. 1981. The Student Apartments were the original on-campus housing facilities, completed in October 1977. 8" x 10" photograph print; black and white.

A student gives President Thomson a "scroll" with over 600 Mason students, faculty, and staff signatures. The petition asked Thompson to excuse students, faculty, staff and administration from classes on October 15 so that they could take part in…

Students protesting outside the Johnson Center during the Black Lives Matter movement

The Gunston Ledger and Broadside student newspaper listing its editors and staff. O.M. Wood making repeat appearances often as a caricature.

Students hanging out at the Student Union Building's lobby.

Students sitting on the benches outside Student Union Building.

A group of students protesting a political issue. (Vietnam War)