By ETHAN TOBINHave you ever wondered how baseball’s “greatest of all-time” was also deemed a violent racist, who was known...
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By DELLA HETHCOX Hardly an empty seat remained in Dodd Auditorium last Thursday evening as the 2016 Great Lives series debuted...
Photos by GINNY CLARK Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics and editor-in-chief of the popular election...
By GINNY CLARK “How many of you were alive and remember November 22, 1963?” asked Larry Sabato, looking out onto...
By AERIEL MERILLAT The sea of people that crowded Dodd Auditorium on Tuesday, Jan. 28 Rolled with laughter when New...
By WILLIAM CRAWLEY I was initially disappointed by the negative comments concerning the Great Lives Series Lectures found in the...
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By EVAN HICKS Wilbur and Orville Wright were the subjects of the latest Great Lives lecture on April 12. James...
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By EVAN HICKS “You have degraded what should have been a course of lectures into a series of tales,” Sherlock...
By ALISON THOET The University of Mary Washington expanded their iTunes U to give people worldwide access to its Great...
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By EVAN HICKS On Feb. 23, the Great Lives Lecture series hosted John A. Farrell, author of “Clarence Darrow: Attorney...
By EVAN HICKS At times, black history month can seem like a half-hearted apology, a month of politically correct pablum...
By June 1958, Richard and Mildred Loving had grown up together, fallen in love and married, settling in Caroline County,...
Charles Shields, a renowned biographer has been selected to become the new associate director of the Great Lives lecture series,...
With the new academic year comes a noted addition to the University of Mary Washington’s faculty. Charles J. Shields, the...
By MINDY MAULDIN Guggenheim fellow and biographer T.J. Stiles spoke about the powerful 19th-Century business mogul Cornelius Vanderbilt last Thursday...
By ERIC STEIGLEDER A group of protesters from the American Life League convened outside of George Washington Hall March 21...
By ASHLEY JACOBY Last Thursday, Jan. 31, Kathleen Dalton from Boston University spoke at The Great Lives Lecture Series in...