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Broadside Article depicting Mason students rallying and raising money on the Quad for the Jena 6. These 6 were a group of black teenagers who were unjustly charged with attempted murder after a series of racist events occurring at their high school…

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

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

After BOV Rector Marvin Murray voted against the funding of both an on-campus GLBT center and the appointment of a GLBT staff member to the Office of Minority Student Affairs and group of students publicly requested his dismissal from his position as…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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.

What would occur if GMU Football happened and how it would impact everything else at GMU.