Department News

UVA Today published a piece about Claudrena Harold and Louis Nelson's new book, Charlottesville 2017: The Legacy of Race and Inequality. You can read the piece online here, and you can find out more information on the book here. 

Prof. John Mason participated in an interview for the Washington Post along with Vogue's Creative Director, Andre Leon Tally, discussing how it took the magazine 125 years to feature a cover photo shot by an African American photographer. 

Prof. Waitman Beorn contributed this op-ed to the Washington Post about the toppling of "Silent Sam" at UNC. 

Upcoming Events

9/17/2018: THE ANTISEMITIC ORIGINS OF “FAKE NEWS” AND THE FATE OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY

9/20/2018: THE MEMOIRS OF ULYSSES S. GRANT

9/21/2018: NEW REGISTERS FOR OLD DEBTS: MUNICIPAL COURTS AND MICRO-LENDING IN NINETEENTH CENTURY MEXICO

10/03/2018: NOTES ON THE STATE OF JUPITER: THOMAS JEFFERSON AND HIS BODYSERVANT JUPITER EVANS

10/17/2018: BEYOND JEFFERSON: THE RANDOLPHS, HEMINGSES, AND THE IDEA OF THE WEST, 1820-1900