UVA’s Miller Center, which focuses on presidential and political history, has created a site entitled “Remembering September 11.” It compiles the Miller Center’s vast library of 9/11 resources into one place. The offerings include a timeline of events on 9/11, oral histories by leading government officials, recordings of the center’s many events on 9/11, and more.
(Commentary by Barbara A. Perry, director of presidential studies and co-chair of the Presidential Oral History Program at the Miller Center; free registration required) Where were you on 9/11? Memories of that horrific day are seared into the national consciousness, much like those of Nov. 22, 1963, the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. The latter date marked the demise of our 35th commander-in-chief, while Sept. 11, 2001 witnessed the creation of the 43rd. Yes, George W. Bush had taken office seven months earlier, but the terrorist attacks thrust the mantle of wartime leader up...
To know Brad Tazewell is to know the Norfolk skyline. His firm, Williams and Tazewell Architects, worked on the Norfolk Southern Tower and the Bank of America office building, among many others in that city and across Hampton Roads. For those who worked for him — many who went to start their own architecture firms — E. Bradford Tazewell Jr. was an exacting boss who required a strong eye for detail. He died last week at the age of 95. He was a World War II veteran and University of Virginia graduate who had a lasting legacy in Tidewater for his design work on several well-known buildings. He al...
University of Virginia Health officials are encouraging Cavalier football fans to wear masks through all four quarters of Saturday’s season opener, saying it is the best defense against COVID-19’s game-changing delta variant.
Part of the city funding will go toward an article written by Madison Wilson, a historic preservation graduate student at UVa and intern with the historical society who has been working on the project.
Zainora Babayee, 23, a junior at the University of Virginia, said she's living through the "darkest days" of her life. The oldest of seven siblings, Babayee grew up in Kabul, Afghanistan's capital, where her father worked as a private contractor with U.S. special operations forces. She said she had little understanding of why U.S. forces were there. She recalls listening to the news as a young girl when she first heard the phrase 9/11, thinking it was "some fancy word" she didn't know.
One moment, they may be doing homework, and seconds later, answering a call that could save someone's life. Most of the Seminole Trail Volunteer Fire Department firefighters are currently enrolled University of Virginia students.
Max A. Luna of Charlottesville, director, Latino Health Initiative and vice chair of diversity, equity and community engagement, department of medicine, University of Virginia, was appointed to the Virginia Latino Advisory Board.
Tina Thompson’s 7,488 career points rank second in WNBA history. A four-time champion with the Comets, she was an eight-time All-WNBA pick and was selected to participate in nine All-Star Games. Thompson is currently the head coach of the women’s basketball team at the University of Virginia.
Larry Sabato, the director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, argues Christie’s biggest advantage at the moment is that he’s keeping Trump at bay and out of his line of sight considering the former president’s unique ability to metaphorically “explode” any rising star’s lead in early polls “in an instant.” “They all have the same problem with Trump,” Sabato said, referring to Trump’s intense base. “If Christie starts rising in the polls, Trump is gonna find 10 other reasons why he doesn’t like him.”
State lawmakers have begun the politically-charged process of drawing new district boundaries based on data from the 2020 census. “There are a lot of moving pieces in Ohio. And there are a lot of possible outcomes, I think,” said Kyle Kondik, an Ohio native who analyzes elections for the University of Virginia.
If Youngkin can pull off a victory in Virginia, his success could provide a roadmap for Republican candidates running in the 2022 midterm elections. Republicans’ hopes of capturing the House next year may hinge on their ability to appeal to the sort of voters Youngkin is trying to win over in northern Virginia’s rapidly growing suburbs. “There are lots of places like northern Virginia where Democrats have really done better than they used to across the country,” said Kyle Kondik, the managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “So if there’s soft...
Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said: “Afghanistan will matter for Republicans; they’re never going to give up. The dog has chomped out on the ankle. But for Democrats, no, they’re going to laugh at that and say, ‘Oh, you want to go back? Twenty years wasn’t enough? Two trillion dollars wasn’t enough? Twenty-four hundred American lives wasn’t enough?’ Who wins that argument? It’s obvious the Democrats do.”
(Transcript) The island nation of Haiti is just beginning to catch its breath after a massive August earthquake, and that catastrophe struck just a few weeks after the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, which left the government in a state of chaos. While Haiti could use international aid in its recovery, the country has suffered from a history of colonial oppression and interference that leaves its citizens wary of efforts to help. On Friday’s episode of A Word, I spoke about the Haitian crisis with Marlene Daut, a professor of African American and African studies at the University of ...
“Normally [the U.S. Census is] something that you can rely on as being literally the best data available,” said Hamilton Lombard, a demographer at the University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center. “It's sort of a jubilee.”
“If you look at the data, those most likely to get the death penalty are black defendants with a White victim,” said Juliet Hatchett, associate director of the Innocence Project Clinic at the University of Virginia School of Law.
Until she was 33, Kathryn Paige Harden, a professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, had enjoyed a vocational ascent so steady that it seemed guided by the hand of predestination. When she first went on the job market, at 26, her graduate-school mentor, Eric Turkheimer, a professor at the University of Virginia, recommended her with an almost mystified alacrity. “More than anyone else who has come through my lab, I find myself answering questions by saying, ‘We should check with Paige,’ ” he wrote. “I am absolutely confident she will be a successful addition to any faculty, ...
How much is a life worth? Attorney Kenneth Feinberg faced that question in a way he never had before in 2001, when he was put in charge of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund. Now, the new Netflix movie Worth—which is based on Feinberg’s own 2005 memoir and began streaming on Netflix today—is retelling the biggest dilemma of Feinberg’s career. … Feinberg is still working as a lawyer and was recently hired by The Boeing Company in July, 2019 to oversee the distribution of compensation to the families of victims of 737 MAX airplane crashes. He is also an adjunct professor of law at sever...
(Editorial) “The pandemic forced us to rethink the entire relationship individuals have with work,” Joseph Harder, an associate professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, told Virginia Business. “It’s not just that white-collar workers are demanding flexibility ... but it’s also [happening with] the entry-level positions that are essential to reopening the economy.”
"Labor Day should be a moment when we all reflect the critical contributions of working people to the political, economic and cultural development of this country," said Claudrena Harold, a history professor at the University of Virginia.