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Thursday, May 2, 2019

Rachel Shelden, a 2011 graduate of UVA's doctoral degree in History and current associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Oklahoma, has been named director of the George and... [...]

Tuesday, April 30, 2019

The John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History at the University of Virginia is pleased to announce Amy Murrell Taylor’s Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps (University of North Carolina,... [...]

Tuesday, April 23, 2019

On April 5, Amy Murrell Taylor, a 2001 graduate of our History PhD program, was awarded both the "Avery Craven Award" and the "Merle Curti Social History Award" at this year's Oraganization of American Historians conference held this year in... [...]

Wednesday, April 3, 2019

Peter Luebke, a recent UVA PhD History graduate currently serving as an historian at the U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command, just published an new edition of... [...]

Monday, March 18, 2019

UVA History PhD Candidate Brianna Kirk was recently awarded the best student paper award from the Virginia Forum's annual conference last week for her paper titled, "'No Safety for Union Men': The Norfolk Race Riot of 1866 and Military Occupation... [...]

Wednesday, February 20, 2019

"Encompassing Multitudes: The Song of Walt Whitman" is now open at UVA's Small Special Collections Library. The exhibition celebrates the bicentennial of the birth of Walt Whitman and pays tribute to the incalculable cultural influence of... [...]

Friday, February 15, 2019

In March 2019, the University of North Carolina Press will release Civil War Places: Seeing the Conflict through the Eyes of Its Leading Historians. Edited by the Nau Center's founding director, Gary W. Gallagher, and historian J.... [...]

Monday, January 28, 2019

As chair of the UVA Library’s Exhibition Subcommittee (for the Black History Month 2019 Planning Committee), Nau Center affiliated faculty member Ervin Jordan has co-curated (along with Regina Rush and Sony Prosper) a forthcoming exhibit:... [...]

Tuesday, December 18, 2018

The Nau Center is pleased to announce the recipients of its short-term research fellowships for 2019. Our award winners will conduct their research at UVA’s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections... [...]

Thursday, December 13, 2018

In conjunction with Prof. Lisa Goff and the Institute for Public History, the Nau Center is pleased to offer six summer internships in 2019. All five internships from this past summer will... [...]