A recent Washington Post article by Anne Midgette explained the undeniable influence Sophocles Papas (1894-1986) had on classical guitar enthusiasm and academic guitar study in the Washington D.C. area. George Mason Special Collections and Archives is proud to be the steward of Papas collection which includes the personal papers of Papas. The collection consists of […]
A finding aid is now available for the Martin Wohl papers. Martin Wohl (1930-2009) was an influential economist most famous for arguing against the heavy rail transportation projects that several cities undertook in the 1960s and 1970s. He worked in the Commerce Department in the early 1960s and taught at MIT, Harvard, and Carnegie Mellon […]
In December of 1967, when nearly 15 percent of all Americans and 40 percent of African Americans lived below the poverty line, Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) began organizing a national campaign against poverty. The Poor People’s Campaign was to inaugurate a new phase of civil rights extending the struggle […]
Last spring, Robin Rottier, a Mason psychology student and Preservation Assistant working in the library, donated a collection of thousands of slides, negatives, and prints taken by her father Jack Rottier. Jack Rottier worked as a photographer for the National Capital Region of the National Park Service from the early 1960s until he retired in […]
Today marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, which divided Berlin as well as the three Western sectors of Germany from the surrounding area of Brandenburg. Originally composed of barbed wire, the Wall was 95 miles long and eventually 13 feet high and as wide as 100 feet.  It included a […]
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