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Ella Baker Internship Program 2012

May 19, 2012 By

Ella Baker, perhaps the civil rights movement’s most effective organizer, learned on her family’s Halifax County farm that local people have the knowledge and the capacity to shape their own lives. This summer, the Ella Baker Interns will work in the 20-county eastern North Carolina “Black Belt” to greatly increase voter education and civic engagement in the region. As they do so, they will stitch together a human “quilt” committed to what Miss Baker and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. called “the beloved community,” a vision of redeeming goodwill for all. … [Read more...]

Department Reps for 2012-2013 Announced

May 3, 2012 By

Congratulations to the new department representatives elected by our students and announced at our department banquet last week! … [Read more...]

Departmental Symposium Schedule — April 27, 8 AM-4 PM

April 18, 2012 By

History and American Studies Symposium Spring 2012 University of Mary Washington – Department of History and American Studies Friday, April 27, 2012   SESSION ONE. 8 AM. Monroe 210 – Ideology and Motivation in Warfare Moderator: Dr. Porter Blakemore Kathleen Hughes—Motivation to Fight: Combat Soldiers in Vietnam [CF] Lindsey Smith—Armed with the Quran and a Kalashnikov: A Study in the Ideologies that Influenced Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda, and the Key Events that Led to 9/11 [NA] Rebecca Welker—"Put the Boys In": Young Soldiers in Civil War Fiction [KM]   SESSION TWO. 8 AM. Monroe 211 – Constructing Social Identities Moderator: Dr. Will Mackintosh Lindsay Kyle Cutler—Wampum and Dice: Contested Indian Identity at Foxwoods Casino and the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center [JR] Aubrey Elliott—The Weakness of the Visigoths during the Moorish Invasion of 711 [NA] Sara Krechel—Sex, Luxury, and Power:  The Stereotype and … [Read more...]

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