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An article in the Washington Post by Doree Lovell was written about Lorraine Brown and her colleague John O’Conner, both English professors at George Mason University. The article starts out by mentioning how the documents from the Federal Theatre…

A portrait of twenty-four-year-old George Mason, wealthy Virginia planter and future political leader, commemorates his 1750 marriage to sixteen-year-old Ann Eilbeck of Maryland. Both the bride and groom were painted separately by John Hesselius, a…

A group of African American students gathering together.

A short excerpt in the Digital Collection of University Libraries that highlights that just 3 years after the birth of the program, the women's soccer team brought home the NCAA championship. They earned a spot in the NCAA tournament in their first…

Eda Edson is surrounded by her orchestra possibly before or after a performance. This photo displays importance to the history of music at George Mason University.

The Battle of Ream’s Station ended after dark on the evening of August 25th, 1864. The nearly two thousand Union prisoners captured in the battle were kept in a field near the battlefield behind Confederate lines that night. The next morning, they…

Edgar Shannon was President at the time of Lorraine's dispute with UVA and GMC regarding the nepotism policy. It was stated in the policy that only he had the power to waive the policy.

An oral history conducted with Dr. David Powers Corwin on the topics of LGBTQ+ history and Women and Gender Studies at Mason.

GMU officially becomes an independent institution. This allows the University to reconsider the proposition of building on-campus student housing.