Exploring our nation’s rich history in innovative ways, the C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience draws scholars and citizens, college students and national leaders to a unique 18th-century town on the Chesapeake Bay. Our guiding principle is that now more than ever, a wider understanding of our shared past is fundamental to the continuing success of America’s democratic experiment.
Revolutionary College Project website debuts
The Revolutionary College Project website is here just
in time for Commencement week. This exciting new site will be a lasting legacy of the college's 225th year, and will continue to grow in the years ahead with additions from students, alumni, and others.
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2008 Book Prize Winner Named at Mount Vernon
The fourth annual $50,000 George Washington Book Prize, honoring the most important new book about America's founding era, was awarded at Mount Vernon on Thursday, May 29 to social historian Marcus Rediker for The Slave Ship: A Human History.
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Poplar Grove Project Rescues Emory Papers
During the summer of 2008, student researchers are working to save 400 years
of documents stored for generations in a Maryland attic. Sponsored by the C.V. Starr Center and the Maryland State Archives, the project is reconstructing lives once lost to history.
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