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Pictured is a promotional flier for Slave Day. Slave Day was an event held by one of the GMU fraternities that mimicked the slave trade to raise money. The flier states that clubs and individuals that purchase student "slaves" would get a full day of…

“War in the Gulf.” A glimpse into the national response to Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait August 2, 1990, as well as the US military’s response to the crisis. We see protests in support of US troops, and for peace. A likening of the Gulf War to…

George Mason Patriots protesting in support of US troops in lieu of the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq.

A photo documenting Warfield's leading role in the design of the PENNSTAC computer in the 1950s.

This is a response to a google form documenting paranormal experiences on Mason's campus and in the surrounding Fairfax Area. In this form, the student recounts a scream only they heard coming from the Washington parking lot at night.

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…

George Mason's Basketball Success outlined on the cover of the Washington Post

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…

Students gathered in the Johnson Center on campus to watch the Patriots compete in the Final Four in Indianapolis.

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…