George Mason University Libraries’ Special Collections & Archives (SC&A) and Digital Projects and Systems departments have created a new resource by which users can learn about the history of the university through narrative essays and digital objects, such as audio and video files, photographs, and textual documents. George Mason University: A History was built on the Omeka […]
What issues were on the minds of Northern Virginians during the beginning of the 1980s? A collection of public service broadcasts recorded by George Mason University’s GMU Radio offers some clues. “Frankly Speaking” was a series of weekly radio shows which featured discussions about current topics of interest. A recently-processed collection, the “Frankly Speaking” Radio […]
This post is Part 2 of 2 parts. Part 1 can be read here. Fairfax, Virginia George Mason College’s New Home in 1964 Once moved from its original location in Bailey’s Crossroads, George Mason College would now operate out of it’s new quarters in Fairfax. The first four buildings were quite spartan in […]
This post is Part 1 of 2 parts. Part 2 can be read here. Bailey’s Crossroads, George Mason’s First Campus During the summer of 1957 University of Virginia President Colgate W. Darden announced the University’s temporary leasing of an old elementary school building at Bailey’s Crossroads, Virginia. This building would house the newly created University […]
Well, the answer to that often-asked question may very well be… George Mason. At 26-6, Mason has compiled its best pre-NCAA Tournament season record to date, and for several weeks the Patriots have been included in various lists of the top-30 teams in the nation. Though it fell in the Colonial Athletic Association Tournament semi-final, […]
