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Making Sense of the Current Situation
May 9, 2024
National Endowment for the Humanities awards two grants to VCU projects
April 18, 2024
One will establish a health humanities minor, while the other supports a professor’s book project on visual images of African Americans in leisure contexts from slavery through the Jim Crow era.
God and the Search for Happiness Blake Lecture Recap
April 11, 2024
The Historian: A gift by William E. Blake Jr.
March 20, 2024
With expertise ranging from comics to economics, VCU alum earns honor from History Department
March 1, 2024
Nathan Vernon Madison, who has explored expansive interests, is the author of several books and has worked on documentary films.
In Feb. 24 address, VCU history professor will highlight early America’s urban slavery in human terms
Feb. 19, 2024
Drawing from narratives of the enslaved and his book ‘Almost Dead,’ Michael Dickinson will discuss resistance, survival and modern legacies.
Class of 2023: Nicholas George felt like a failure as a child, but now he’s an internationally credentialed expert on John Milton
Jan. 8, 2024
George, who has autism and epilepsy, built on his love of reading to earn an M.A. in English at VCU and to join fellow Milton experts from around the world at a conference in Toronto.