What does it mean to be Zulu today? Is this different from what it has meant in the past? A new book of analysis and insight, Zulu Identities: Being Zulu Past and Present, edited by Dr. Benedict Carton, along with John Laband and Jabulani Sithole, wrestles with these and many other questions to show [...]
Dr. Rosie Zagarri’s most recent book, Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic, has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press. Dr. Zagarri looks at the role of women in American politics during our nation’s first fifty years. In doing so, she examines an alternative explanation for the emergence of the first [...]
Dr. Christopher Hamner and the Center for History and New Media received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to fund the ongoing documentary editing project Papers of the War Department, 1783-1800. The project, a digital archive that restores the collection lost in the November 1800 fire that destroyed the War Office, was [...]
One of our doctoral students, Rebecca Erbelding, is profiled in an article in this week’s New Yorker (March 17, 2008) concerning her work as an archivist at the U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the museum’s acquisition of a newly discovered album of photographs taken at Auschwitz in 1944. The article is titled “Picturing Auschwitz” [...]
On Tuesday, March 4, the department lost a beloved former colleague, Dr. Robert T. Hawkes. Bob taught U.S. history at Mason for 37 years, retiring in 2006. He was one of the most popular teachers on campus, resulting both from his skill as an instructor and his extraordinary efforts to reach out to [...]
The Center for History and New Media combines cutting edge digital media with the latest and best historical scholarship to promote an inclusive and democratic understanding of the past as well as a broad historical literacy.
Founded in 1967, the Journal of Social History is one of the most often-cited historical journals in the United States and is published quarterly by the George Mason University Press.
The History and Art History Alumni Chapter of the Department of History and Art History maintains its own page. Information about alumni activities as well as contact information for the group can be found there.
The department’s art historians and historians participate in the Center for Global Education’s Study Tour Program during both the academic year and summer sessions. This summer’s study abroad experiences include the Silk Road and Egypt and Tunis, among others.