FAIRFAX, Va., July 1 -- George Mason University issued the following news release:
George Mason University faculty members and graduate students from the Department of History and Art History and the Center for Mason Legacies (CML) shared their expertise as speakers at the Fairfax 250 history day, a county event held as part of the statewide commemoration of the nation's semiquincentennial.
Sponsored by the Fairfax History Commission with help from the Historical Society of Fairfax County, the daylong "Revolutionary Ideas-Fairfax County's American Revolution" conference was co-chaired by CML director and history professorGeorge Oberle and community historian Sue Kovach Shuman and presented at the Fairfax County Government Center in April ...