Latest News
2009
04/10/09 - American Pictures Series at Smithsonian Features Historian Harold Holzer...
04/08/09 - Apocalypse in Gotham: Author Examines 'The City's End' ...
03/23/09 Novelist Jamaica Kincaid to appear at Smithsonian...
3-11-09 WYPR news analyst Fraser Smith on civil rights in Maryland...
3-10-09 Washington College and Smithsonian present American Pictures Series...
2-20-09 Washington College Announces George Washington Book Prize Finalists...
2-17-09 Donna Lucey on Love and Madness in the Gilded Age...
1-27-09 A conversation with Cokie Roberts, February 12th...
1-22-09 Setting sail for college aboard an 18th-century schooner...
1-20-09 Starr Center donates 78 new books to Miller Library...
1-14-09 Spring 2009 events announced...
1-7-09 Ted Widmer to discuss 'Ark of the Liberties,' at Washington College...
2008
11/19/08 Massive historical research databases now accessible to Washington College community...
10/23/08 Washington College's Adam Goodheart appointed to Maryland Humanities Council board...
10/21/08 World famous Freedom Schooner Amistad vists Kent County...
10-16-08 Camp Church Hill audio interview with former POW Josef Oeller...
Poplar Grove Papers now available at Maryland State Archives...
Poplar Grove video available now on Washington College iTunes U site...
10-14-08 Paul Gilje presents 'Swearing in the American Age of Sail'...
10-11-08 Cambridge, Md: Civil War to Civil Rights Road Trip...
9-18-08 Washington College community dedicates Patrick Henry Fellows' Residence...
9-17-08 Three-day sailing adventure for new students aboard the Schooner Sultana...
9-5-08 The Great Horse Race: Expert panel discusses Presidential campaign...
8-27-08 A conversation with Marcus Rediker, winner of the George Washington Book Prize...
8-22-08 New visiting historian speaks on 'Jefferson and Slavery' at Washington College...
7-9-08 Historian Henry Wiencek named Washington College's first Patrick Henry Fellow...
7-3-08 The Poplar Grove Project on National Public Radio...
6-23-08 The Poplar Grove Project conserves Emory papers...
5-29-08 George Washington Book Prize awarded at Mount Vernon...
5-18-08 Jeremy Rothwell, recently returned from service in Iraq, selected as Washington College's Presidential Fellow...
5-18-08 Sarah DeVan awarded Washington College's 2008 Frederick Douglass Fellowship...
5-15-08 History Lives Online: Washington College's 'Revolutionary College Project' site launched...
05/14/08 - Jeremy Rothwell, recently returned from service in Iraq, selected as Washington College's Presidential Fellow...
5-10-08 Actress/playwright Anna Deavere Smith appears at Smithsonian...
5-1-08 Jill Ogline reviews LBJ's American Promise in Journal of Southern History...
4-10-08 From Washington College to Washington, D.C.: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Garry Wills to appear at Smithsonian, April 26 ...
4-16-08 Students visit historic Poplar Grove plantation ...
4-14-08 Jill Ogline delivers talk to the National Council on Public History ...
4-1-08 Starr Center announces Patrick Henry Fellowships ...
4-1-08 Historian conjures 'Metropolis of a New World' at Washington College ...
3-31-08 Michael Buckley publishes Voices of the Chesapeake Bay...
3-12-08 Yale historian presents 'A Slave No More' at Washington College ...
3-10-08 Performance artist Laurie Anderson deconstructs Warhol's "Little Electric Chair"
in second 'American Pictures' lecture at the Smithsonian ...
3-8-08 "American Pictures" debuts with Allan Gurganus ...
2-29-08 Gretchen Gerzina's 'Looking for Bijah and Lucy' at Washington College ...
2-14-08 Michael Buckley appointed Program Manager ...
2-7-08 Student-curated exhibition opens at the Custom House ...
2-7-08 Washington College, Smithsonian Museums join forces for 'American Pictures' lecture series ...
2-22-08
2008 George Washington Book Prize finalists announced...
1-20-08 Starr Center donates 78 new books to Miller Library...
1-14-08 Historic artifacts unearthed in Henry House renovations ...
2007
12-23-07 Adam Goodheart reviews Foreigners in the New York Times ...
12-5-07 Hodson Trust gift links Starr Center, JCB ...
11/21/07 Washington College author/professor presents 'Two Lives of Sally Miller'..
11/02/07 Senatorial Colloquy at Washington College with Sens. Bayh, Lugar...
10-9-07 Five US Senators gather at Washington College for Conversations ...
10/04/07 Author discusses history of Eastern Shore lynchings...
10-2-07 Dr. Fredrika J. Teute accepts 2007-8 C.V. Starr Fellowship ...
9-27-07 Book Prize winner Charles Rappleye comes to Washington College ...
9-21-07 NEH awards major grant to Washington College ...
9-20-07 Jill Ogline's review of A Magnificent Catastrophe in American Scholar ...
9-12-07 Charles Rappleye comes to Washington College Book Prize Celebration ...
8-31-07 New history students sail on the Sultana with the Starr Center ...
8-5-07 Adam Goodheart's review of The Verneys appears in New York Times ...
7-1-07 Adam Goodheart examines July 4th in NY Times Week in Review…
6/29/07 C.V. Starr Center embarks on 'A Chesapeake Journey: from Slavery to Freedom'...
6-12-07 Historian Jill Ogline appointed Associate Director of C.V. Starr Center …
5-26-07 Maryland's Governor O'Malley visits college, Starr Center ...
5/22/07 $50,000 George Washington Book Prize awarded to Charles Rappleye...
5-22-07 Photos of the 2007 George Washington Book Prize Mt. Vernon dinner…
4/06/07 Metropolitan Museum of Art curator explores 'History in Houses'...
3-22-07 Presidential Fellowship awarded to Andrew Mehdizadeh '08 …
3-19-07 Adam Goodheart wins Abell Foundation's 2007 Emmart Award …
3/14/07 Novelist Mallon Previews 'Fellow Travelers' at Washington College...
3/05/07 $1.05-Million Gift funds historic house purchase by Washington College..
2/19/07 Washington College announces $50,000 Book Prize finalists...
2/15/07 - Mount Vernon's James C. Rees presents 'George Washington's Leadership Lessons,' February 2o...
2/15/07 Joan Smith appointed George Washington Book Prize Coordinator...
1-29-07 Adam Goodheart and John R. Bohrer '06 on Iraq and Vietnam in USA Today...
1-11-07 Elizabeth Clay '08 selected as 2007 recipient of Frederick Douglass Fellowship …
2006
12-21-06 Starr Center donates 50+ books to Miller Library …
11-30-06 Hodson Trust Awards $3.5 Million to C.V. Starr Center …
10-29-06 Adam Goodheart reviews Charles Frazier’s Thirteen Moons in the
New York Times…
