The Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battlefields National Military park is now accepting applications for the summer of 2014 for one Curatorial Assistant intern and approximately 8 Historical Interpreter interns. For more information, see http://www.nps.gov/frsp/supportyourpark/intern.htm
History alum (’94) David Preston’s book was recently featured in a review essay in the William and Mary Quarterly, a leading journal of the colonial and early national period, on the cutting-edge works that have appeared on Iroquois history in the past few years. See the essay at http://oieahc.wm.edu/wmq/Apr12/reviews/WMQ_Apr12_06_review_Countryman.pdf
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Vampires “Jefferson was a pretty cerebral guy,” says Will Mackintosh, assistant professor in the Department of History and American Studies at the University of Mary Washington. Read the full article at http://www.expressnightout.com/2012/06/life-liberty-and-the-pursuit-of-vampires/
The following is a reflection by Morgan Mangold on her internship in the Spring of 2012.
http://www2.staffordcountysun.com/news/2012/may/16/locals-graduate-umw-ar-1919411/ Joe Calpin of Dumfries found a love for the Chinese language through martial arts films and studying Kung Fu while in high school. Since then he has continued to pursue it within his undergraduate studies. While at UMW last year, he studied abroad in Harbin, China and this year is in Taiwan with […]
