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The entrance to Auschwitz I. As an intern with the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, Michael Farfan worked in Block 24, the brick building directly to the left. (Photo by Michael Farfan)

Michael Farfan explores history in the heart of inhumanity at Auschwitz-Birkenau

Aug. 25, 2026

The VCU senior embraced his summer internship at the Holocaust memorial and museum in Poland.

Nearly 50 VCU faculty honored for their research and teaching

Aug. 20, 2026

The 2026 NIRA and PEIA awardees elevate VCU’s reputation and the student learning experience.

During a research internship with the St. John’s Church Foundation, Lena Nagle She examined historical records, vestry records and inscriptions on headstones and created educational content, including a presentation on the first Church Hill tunnel collapse of January 1873. (Dean Hoffmeyer, Enterprise Marketing and Communications)

Lena Nagle explores the grim and the grand of Richmond history

Aug. 20, 2026

The VCUarts senior, who embraces the city’s colorful past, spent a summer research internship delving into St. John’s Church.

A new minor in Native American and Indigenous studies reflects VCU’s growing spotlight on the centrality of Indigenous peoples, their contributions and their ongoing presence in America and Virginia. (File photo)

VCU offering new minor in Native American and Indigenous studies

Aug. 12, 2026

Debuting this fall in the College of Humanities and Sciences, the curriculum reflects growing ties to Virginia’s tribal nations.

In her new book, “Deprived of Sense and Intellect,” VCU professor Leigh Ann Craig asks both what medieval thinkers understood a mind to be — and what signified its loss. (Contributed photo)

What do the Middle Ages tell us about mental health then and now? VCU historian Leigh Ann Craig has answers

July 6, 2026

In her new book, ‘Deprived of Sense and Intellect,’ she examines sanity, demons, the complexity of medieval diagnostics and modern tie-ins.

St. John’s Church, which was built in 1741, is the oldest church in Richmond. (Getty Images)

Understanding the role of faith and religion in the founding of the United States

July 2, 2026

American independence took root amid religious diversity and differences, VCU history professor Ryan Smith says.

Latino Virginia project captures untold oral history

June 25, 2026

The project, led by sociology professor Gabriela León-Pérez and history professor Daniel Morales, has collected over 140 interviews with Virginians who share a background or heritage in Latin America.

Award recipients of the VCU AHSS Fund are identified through a peer review process with an emphasis on projects that expand imagination, innovation, self-reflection and society as well as cultural identity. (File photo)

VCU drives societal change with 10 new Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Fund awards

June 3, 2026

Nearly $100,000 is being awarded to fund projects on teacher education, AI, environmental governance, the history of Black dentistry and more.

VCU Internship Spotlight: The Chesterfield County African American History Committee

April 29, 2026

Alexandria Grant shares her experience as an intern with The African American History Committee of Chesterfield County.

The SGA Has a New President: A History Student Perspective

April 14, 2026

Natalie Bowen shares her unique outlook on being elected SGA president as a history and mass communications double-major.