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Dealing with the Aftermath
Written by John Schorling, Professor and Head of the Section of General Medicine in the Department of General, Geriatric, Palliative, and Hospital Medicine in the School of Medicine at UVA, in response to the alt-right demonstrations on August 11-12, 2017. The events of August 11 and 12 in Charlottesville continue to impact many individuals as […]
My Violent “Welcome” to Charlottesville
  Chinwe Oriji loves God, loves people, and hates oppression. She is a Woodson Fellow at the Carter G. Woodson Institute at the University of Virginia and a PhD candidate in African and African Diaspora Studies at UT-Austin. She is also the founder of a race and immigration platform at unispora.com and you can follow […]
Between the Right and a Hard Place: How JFK Pivoted to Righteousness
Written by Barbara Perry, White Burkett Miller Center Professor of Ethics and Institutions and Presidential Studies Director at UVA’s Miller Center. Follow her on Twitter @BarbaraPerryUVA.   We don’t typically think of John F. Kennedy and Donald J. Trump as leading comparable presidencies. Yet they both faced a right-wing faction of their party over the […]
In the Aftermath
The following letter was written by Deborah McDowell, Alice Griffin Professor of English in the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences and Director of the Carter G. Woodson Center, in response to the alt-right demonstration events that transpired in Charlottesville this past weekend. It was originally posted on the website of the Carter […]
In Response
The following letter was written by Dr. Marcus Martin, Vice President and Chief Officer for Diversity and Equity and Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Virginia, in response to the alt-right demonstration events that transpired in Charlottesville this past weekend. It was originally published on his website. For further information and resources, please […]
Thomas Jefferson: An In-Depth Look at the Man We Have Immortalized: The Challenge of Teaching the History of American Icons
Written by: John Ragosta, Summer Jefferson Symposium Lead Faculty; Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, Fellow Teaching history has changed a great deal in my lifetime. Of course, the fixation on dates, names, battles, and speeches went out many years ago – although it lingers in too  many places like old leftovers in the fridge. And […]
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