The Mason's Legacies repository is an ongoing project which seeks to collect and share stories about George Mason the Mason family and the people they associated with in the region. The site contains items and exhibits added by students as part of the Honors Class HNRS 353: Mason's Legacies and other relevant courses. The site also will have a series of essays and other exhibits prepared by invited scholars. It is overseen by an advisory board which consists of the following scholars:
Featured Item
John Mason McCarty's Tombstone
A reprint of a Times-Mirror article in the Gunston Hall quarterly newsletter.
Featured Exhibit
Monument Mania: Memorializing George Washington
George Washington is certainly considered a hero of American history. He is often seen as the father of this country...
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Sally Hemings
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"Negro" OED definition
This definition and history of the word "Negro" allows for historians to really understand how people in different time periods referred to things.…