Paul Polgar, who received his M.A. from the Department of History and Art History in 2007, has been awarded one of the field's most prestigious post-doctoral fellowships by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture.

The 5th Annual War on the Silver Screen Film Festival will be held on Feb. 26-28 at 7 PM in the JC Cinema. This year's theme is "Hollywood's Cold War."

Two projects of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media have been awarded Digital Humanities Awards for 2012.

Professor Cynthia Kierner's book, Martha Jefferson Randolph: Daughter of Monticello, is among four finalists for the $50,000 George Washington Book Prize, co-sponsored by Washington College, the Gilder Lehrman Institute and the Mount Vernon museum.

Professor Cynthia Kierner's book, Martha Jefferson Randolph: Daughter of Monticello, is among four finalists for the $50,000 George Washington Book Prize, co-sponsored by Washington College, the Gilder Lehrman Institute and the Mount Vernon museum.

The Provost has announced that Dr. Deborah Boehm-Davis will succeed Dr. Jack Censer as dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Associate Professor Kelly Schrum has received a Faculty Research and Professional Development Award in the amount of $4,990 to support her Child Custody Project.