Roy Rosenzweig finding aid now available

Historian Roy A. Rosenzweig is perhaps best remembered for the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) that bears his name. Before the CHNM, Rosenzweig conducted extensive research on Central Park, labor history and oral history. To discover more about Rosenzweig’s innovative research, take a look at the complete finding aid for the Roy Rosenzweig […]

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Northern Virginia Civil War Images Collection

We have recently contributed to the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) Civil War in the American South collaborative website.  This website links to primary source materials, focusing on the American South, created between 1850 and 1865, from 24 contributing institutions. We have successfully digitized and added 121 images  and text documents from three collections: […]

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Arthur E. Scott finding aid now available

Some of photojournalist/photohistorian Arthur E. Scott’s most fascinating subjects are United States Senators and Presidents, including Barry Goldwater, Gerald Ford, and Richard Nixon.  Scott also documented the Washington, D.C. area’s most important landmarks, like the U.S. Capitol Building and Arlington National Cemetery.  Check out the complete finding aid for the Arthur E. Scott photograph collection […]

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Atkins finding aid available for Subject Print Subseries

The first subseries of the revised Oliver F. Atkins photograph collection is now available. The subjects cover life in Washington, D.C. (particularly John F. Kennedy and family in the late 1950s and early 1960s), American social and political issues, countries in Africa, the Korean War, and even our very own George Mason University. We hope […]

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Open for Research: The Visiting Nurse Association Records

We are pleased to announce that the Visiting Nurse Association (VNA) of Northern Virginia records have been processed and are available for researchers to use. The collection contains nearly sixty years (1937-1997) of records from the VNA. Materials include meeting minutes, financial statements, correspondence, reports, and memoranda. The VNA was founded under the not-for-profit company […]

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