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Extended reality: the future of visualizing the past , article
“Visualizing Virginia Tech History,” an event that used multimedia displays and augmented reality to bring the university’s history to life, placed an emphasis on telling the stories of marginalized voices.
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Civil War Weekend 2022 to honor iconic founder and historian James I. ‘Bud’ Robertson Jr. , article
“What would Civil War Weekend be without Bud?” asked Paul Quigley, the James I. Robertson Jr. Associate Professor in the Department of History. “This event brings people together to share extraordinary stories in a way only he could envision.”
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Virginia Tech taking a global approach to curriculum-building , article
Faculty members from a range of disciplines are preparing students to meet the world’s challenges by integrating lessons on international perspectives into their courses.
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College launches research program in honor of Juneteenth , article
Faculty members and students will research connections between the Juneteenth holiday and contemporary struggles against institutional racism, the exposure of structural inequality, and support for vulnerable populations.
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Danna Agmon receives National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship , article
When the history professor was writing her first book, she discovered a curious pattern in how France governed its empire in India in the 18th and 19th centuries. Her quest to understand how those laws formed landed her a fellowship.
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Virginia Tech history class connects 1918 flu outbreak to COVID-19 pandemic , article
Students in a Topics in the History of Data in Social Context course will collaborate with the National Library of Medicine on a virtual symposium to present their research.
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Virginia Tech professor receives fellowship to study historical discrimination in U.S. housing , article
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Virginia Tech students find timely parallels between the coronavirus pandemic and the 1918 influenza pandemic , article
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Award-winning Mapping Inequality project on redlining expanding to more than 200 cities , article
The award-winning project is poised to reach an even broader audience.
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Fear or revere: Virginia Tech researcher dives into the complex history of the American alligator , article
“When we peer into the eyes of an alligator, what we see reflected back is as much a product of our own preconceptions and fears as the unvarnished reality of the creature that stands before us,” said Mark Barrow, a professor in the Department of History.

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