VT History

Join us for the Historical Mapathons information session and learn how to transform maps into data! This session will be held on October 7 from 5:15 - 6:15 p.m. in the Athenaeum. Oh, and did we mention we'll have pizza?! 🍕 To learn more, visit emm.rrchnm.org.

Do you like old maps? Join us for the Historical Mapathons information session and learn how to transform them into data! 🗺 This session will be held on Oct. 7 from 5:15 - 6:15 p.m. in the Athenaeum. There will be pizza! 🍕 To learn more, visit emm.rrchnm.org.

Over the last couple of months, Dale Winling has worked with a reporter at Rhode Island Public Radio on a report on racially restrictive covenants. The piece was published earlier this week; check it out here: thepublicsradio.org/housing/how-ra…

Join us on August 12 from 12 - 1 p.m. for a lunch-and-learn webinar about Dangerous Harbor, an NEH-funded project bringing together the stories of people who attempted to escape slavery and servitude in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake. Register here: virginiatech.zoom.us/.../WN_v0dqK4D…

During the recent Alumni Weekend, history professor Ed Gitre joined other faculty experts from the School of Education and Political Science for a panel discussion on banned books. WFIR’s Clark Palmer explains in an In-Depth report: wfirnews.com/news/virginia-…

You are invited to the third annual Juneteenth Observance to memorialize those who were enslaved on the land we stand upon. ❤️💛💚 The observance will take place on June 15 at Solitude/Fraction at 10:00 A.M. EST. #InclusiveVT #VirginiaTech #Hokies #Juneteenth

Jillian Sasso, a double major in history and political science, was recently named as the Virginia Tech College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences 2024 Outstanding Senior. 🤩 Learn more about Jillian's journey here: news.vt.edu/articles/2024/…

Curious about how previous generations of VT students struggled with issues of war, peace, and social justice? This online exhibit explores how Hokies in the 1960s and 1970s navigated Civil Rights-era racial conflicts and debates around the Vietnam War. historylab.squarespace.com/protest-exhibit

Professor Dale Winling has been working with documentary filmmakers on racial segregation in Chicago and the multi-part series called "The Shame of Chicago, the Shame of the Nation" premieres tonight! instagram.com/p/C4x4meNrvdV/

Virginia Tech History Professor Daniel Thorp is featured in an upcoming speaker series focused on Civil War battles in the New River Valley, sponsored by the Wilderness Road Regional Museum. For full details: givebutter.com/EJA8Mz?fbclid=…

Anne Giles, a 1981 History Department alumna, reunited with professors Glenn Bugh and Roger Ekirch yesterday! Bugh and Ekirch both have fond memories of Anne as a great student. It was an enjoyable reunion for everyone involved! 😊

Special Collections & University Archives invites you to attend the closing reception for "Women in Appalachia: Food, Drink, & Community in the Twentieth Century," curated by Kaitlynn Harless, a history graduate student who researches women activists during the West VA Mine Wars.

Join us for a public lecture by Marisa Duarte at 4 p.m. on March 14 in Newman Library's 101S classroom. Duarte, a citizen of the Pascua Yaqui Nation, is an associate professor at Arizona State University in the School of Social Transformation. We hope to see you there!

Join professor Paul Quigley this summer in Richmond for HIST 2104: The Richmond Experience: Exploring Civil War Era History in the Heart of the Confederacy. For more information, visit liberalarts.vt.edu/academics/Rich…

We are almost in the LAST hour of Giving Day!! If you haven’t already, please consider making a gift of $5 or more to the Department of History to support students, scholarships, and programming. givingday.vt.edu/amb/historydept #VTGivingDay

To support students like Grace, programming, and scholarships, you can make a gift of any size, big or small. Giving Day ends TODAY at noon, so make your gift now! givingday.vt.edu/amb/historydept #VTGivingDay

If you’re as passionate about helping your fellow Hokies as Miles is about history, make a gift now – Giving Day ends at noon! Gifts of any size go a long way in supporting our students. givingday.vt.edu/amb/historydept #VTGivingDay

Macie Alford hopes to be a teacher one day to make an impact, “big or small,” on the children in her community. You can support students like Macie by making an impact of your own – gifts of any size go a long way in supporting student scholarships givingday.vt.edu/amb/historydept

The next 24 hours are your chance to make a difference in the lives of our History Department students! Even $5 goes a long way in helping our students’ dreams become a reality. Make your gift today: givingday.vt.edu/amb/historydept Read more about David here! tinyurl.com/43reu77t