Taylor is proof that even the best historians can be caught by surprise. He recalled Monday how he came upon documents telling of escaped slaves who helped the British during the War of 1812 and were an important reason the British were able to capture Washington, D.C. "This is a story I had known nothing about and I was supposed to be a specialist," said Taylor, 58, now a two-time Pulitzer winner.
Robert F. Bruner, dean of the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, will return to the faculty next year, the university announced Monday.
The University of Virginia announced today (April 14) that Dean Robert F. Bruner will return to the faculty of the Darden School of Business upon the completion of his second term in 2015. Bruner, who was named the first Dean of the Year by Poets & Quants in 2011, will leave after a decade in the school’s top job.
University of Virginia students are slated to take a stand against sexual and intimate partner violence Thursday at the annual Take Back the Night rally on Grounds.
The stage might have belonged to U.S. Sen. Timothy M. Kaine, but the class belonged to professor Larry J. Sabato. That, however, is about to change. While Kaine explained his heart change on same-sex marriage to the 400-plus students at the University of Virginia’s “Introduction to American Politics” course, Sabato sat on a folding chair offstage for the last time. “I’ve been doing the beginning class for 35 years and, to be honest, as you get older, you just don’t have the energy you used to have and this class takes a lot of energy,” Sabato said as s...
Monday night, a panel of University of Virginia students came together to share their stories of abuse, as well as their message of hope, as part of Take Back the Night, a weeklong series of events meant to serve as an outlet for victims of abuse.
Fox 5 sports reporter Lindsay Murphy ended her interview with Tampa Bay Rays outfielder Brandon Guyer before last night’s game at Oriole Park at Camden Yards with a kiss. Murphy and Guyer are married, and Monday marked their first formal interview since they met under somewhat similar circumstances in 2007. Murphy was a sports reporter at NBC29 in Charlottesville and was assigned to do a story on Guyer, who was a star baseball player at the University of Virginia.
Newsradio 1070 WINA, Lite Rock Z95.1 and 106.1 The Corner conducted the Cares For Kids Radiothon this past Thursday and Friday. It was a fundraiser for programs at the University of Virginia Children’s Hospital. Donations totaled $20,015.
HISTORY: ALAN TAYLOR, “The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832” (W.W. Norton) At the heart of Mr. Taylor’s book is the War of 1812, when thousands of slaves sought liberty by escaping to the British side, in what Mr. Taylor, a professor at the University of Virginia, calls “incredible acts of resourcefulness and courage.” Mr. Taylor, 58, drew on records of a commission to compensate slave owners for their lost property. “It was a great opportunity to be able to tell a story about the nature of slavery and freedom in the early years of the ...
Professors Deborah Hellman and John C. Jeffries Jr. of the University of Virginia School of Law on Friday filed amicus briefs with the 4th Circuit in a lawsuit challenging the state's same-sex marriage ban.
Kerry Abrams, a law professor at the University of Virginia, wrote in an email that it’s likely that bigamy charges are brought less frequently than they used to be. “Before most states adopted no-fault divorce, it could be difficult to get divorced, and some people would just move far away and marry someone new without actually getting divorced,” she wrote.
People began to raise objections about the team’s nickname in the late 1950s and early 1960s, says J. Gordon Hylton, a professor of law at Marquette University Law School and a visiting professor at the University of Virginia School of Law. In 2010, Hylton wrote a law review article about the use of Native American team names. “The initial wave of complaints is about the disparaging way in which Native Americans are portrayed in Hollywood films,” he explained. The representation of Native Americans as savage marauders pillaging wagon trains on the Plains didn’t sit well...
People who went to Monticello Friday got to enjoy a patriotic ceremony to honor one of our founding fathers. Hundreds came together to celebrate Thomas Jefferson's 271st birthday. Monticello works with the University of Virginia every year to reflect on how America's third president was pivotal in changing our country.
When PGA Tour golfers such as Zach Johnson, Jonathan Byrd and Stewart Cink want to prepare their mental games in tandem with their golf swings, they call on Dr. Morris Pickens.
Here’s University of Virginia sociologist James Davison Hunter, the scholar who coined the phrase “culture war,” from his 2010 book “To Change The World.”
Students at the University of Virginia are making their innovations come to life in the first ever hack-a-thon - Hack UVA. The first ever hack-a-thon at UVA features around 200 students from six different colleges and universities.
A trio of experts hired by UNC-Chapel Hill to review claims of subpar reading skills among more than 120 athletes found broad problems with whistleblower Mary Willingham's research, the university said Friday. The university said the experts found she had relied too heavily on one test to assign reading levels to athletes. "(I)t appears the technical calculations reported from the initial data were inaccurate," wrote one of the experts, Dennis Kramer, a higher education professor at the University of Virginia. "This analysis finds that less than seven percent of UNC student-...