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George Mason Â鶹¹ú²ú associate professor Gabrielle Tayac’s course, HIST 397 Public History in Action, looks at how indigenous communities interact with our student population through community-based engagement and projects.

Are you a fan of Netflix’s Bridgerton? Can you see yourself hanging out with the rest of the Ton attending extravagant balls in over-the-top gowns? Well before you do, you might want a quick lesson on the real traditions that took place during the Regency Era, and Dina Copelman, associate professor emerita of history and cultural studies at George Mason Â鶹¹ú²ú, tells all about the facts and the fiction of all three seasons of the Shondaland drama.

George Mason Â鶹¹ú²ú students taking Art History 495/595 Curating an Exhibition worked together to take an exhibit of South African art from conception to completion this spring.

Mason adjunct professor David J. Gerleman has been selected as a recipient of a 2024-25 Fulbright Scholar Award. He will teach two courses at the Â鶹¹ú²ú of Debrecen, one of Hungary's most prestigious higher education institutions.

The annual Campus Legends and Lore Walking Tour takes the Mason community on a spooky stroll around Fairfax Campus with an educational twist.

Mason Egyptologist Jacquelyn Williamson shares her expertise in episodes of the new Netflix historical docuseries Queen Cleopatra.

In his book, The Beat Cop: Chicago's Chief O'Neill and the Creation of Irish Music, George Mason Â鶹¹ú²ú history professor Michael O’Malley recounts the life of Irish immigrant and Chicago chief of police Francis O’Neill and his influence on Irish music.

Mason historian Yevette Richards Jordan focuses her research lens on African American history, with an emphasis on racist violence from the 1920s through the 1940s. For the past several years, however, her work has led her to uncover a hidden history of racial violence that struck her own family, and the trauma of that violence that continues today.

Three decades ago, Rosemarie Zagarri never imagined her dissertation research on 18th-century electoral politics would become urgently relevant to the preservation of democracy in 21st-century America.

On Friday, October 7, George Mason Â鶹¹ú²ú dedicated a Virginia historic site and celebrated the university–community partnership that helped preserved it.