A class session from Associate Professor Jeffrey McClurken’s “U.S. History in Film” course will air on C-SPAN 3 on Saturday, Feb. 2 at 8 p.m. and midnight and on Sunday, Feb. 3 at 1 p.m.The class session, focused on the film “Gone With the Wind,” was filmed at UMW in October 2012. Jeffrey McClurken evaluates […]
The Civil War – Before the Battle of Fredericksburg Saturday, December 8th, 6 & 10 pm – CSPAN-3University of Mary Washington history professor Jeffrey McClurken talks about the Civil War leading up to December 1862. He discusses the political situations in the North and South, and traces changes in the Union and Confederate commands to […]
The History and American Studies Department welcomes the publication of the e-book, Dangerous Waters, authored by our late colleague Richard “Doc” Warner, who passed away last year. A description of his new novel:The Wreck of the Nottingham Galley is a suspenseful historically based novel relating the events that led to the notorious Wreck of the […]
On Friday, June 8, Will Mackintosh, assistant professor of history and American studies, presented a paper entitled “The Loomis Gang and the Funhouse Mirror of Nineteenth-Century Economic Modernity” at the “Capitalism by Gaslight: The Shadow Economies of Nineteenth-Century America” conference in Philadelphia, Pa. The conference was jointly hosted by the Library Company of Philadelphia and the […]
On Sunday, July 1, Nabil Al-Tikriti delivered a paper entitled “Grim Advice, Bold Solutions: Idris-i Bitlisi’s 1513 Treatise on the Caliphate and Sultanic Protocols” to the 20th annual CIÉPO [Comité International des Études Pré-Ottomanes et Ottomanes] Conference in Rethymno, Crete, Greece. The abstract of the paper was as follows:“Following the intensely chaotic violence of the […]
