Cassandra Good, associate editor of the Papers of James Monroe, received the Mary Jurich Nickliss Prize from the Organization of American Historians for her book, Founding Friendships (Oxford, 2015). The prize, awarded annually, recognizes the most original book in U.S. women’s and/or gender history. The prize committee commended the book’s “remarkable body of evidence” and […]
For the fourth consecutive year, the Office of Residence Life and Commuter Student Services is partnering with Goodwill Industries to reduce the amount of waste going to the landfill from residence hall rooms as students move out for the summer. Over the last three years we have collected 34,000 pounds of waste. This year we […]
The Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991 might have been expected to make Russia a liberal democracy; instead we see broad popular support for Putin’s undemocratic regime. Historian Steve Harris turns to aviation to offer new ways of understanding the Soviet past and Russia’s present. See the full interview at The Source.
The University of Mary Washington Galleries is proud to announce the Annual Student Art Exhibition in the duPont Gallery. Of the many entries, only 28 artworks were selected for the show. We are proud to announce two recipients of the prestigious Melchers Gray Purchase Award: Michael Evart’s Horsehair Pot and Kacie Waters-Heflin’s Pas de Basque […]
The University of Mary Washington Galleries is proud to host the first exclusively video exhibition at the Ridderhof Martin Gallery. Video: Shedding the Utopian Moment features five groundbreaking moving image artworks from the 1980s by internationally renowned artists.The exhibition explores feminist videos and films of the 1980s, taking its title and framework from artist and theorist […]
