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Some of the portraits of the George Mason College freshmen class in 1965. Bernard White was the only African American student portrayed in the yearbook.

On July 30th, 1860, J.W. Tomlinson, the census taker, recorded forty-six-year-old Solomon Crist working as a laborer on the farm of his eighty-one-year-old Aunt Ann Crist. Solomon was born in Pennsylvania, and his aunt was born in Maryland.

Composite photograph created by Richard M. Sparks depicting scenes from a press conference called by Drs. Lee Potter, Joseph Harrison, Fanny-Fern Davis, and Linda Grant DePauw to announce their resignations from George Mason College, May 20, 1965.…

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…

Early photo record of fenwick library opening.

Title page of George Mason University's 1993 yearbook, Senior Expressions. An image depicting hand-holding between a black hand and a white hand; in the wake of our current political climate, the politicization of these kinds of symbolic gestures in…

She did this to be 'sold' and bought in order to raise money for a cause, ridiculing and dismissing the trauma that comes with being a black student who has actually come from a line of ancestors who were once auctioned due to the color of their…

ICAR organizes its first Regional Scholars Roundtable on Peace and Conflict Studies, bringing together experts to discuss key developments in the field.

Photograph from the Dance Unit's production of "How Long Brethren?", performed at Nora Bayes Theatre. This photograph shows Tamiris, the choreographer and principal dancer.