When Ryan Hammons was 4 years old, he began directing imaginary movies. Shouts of “Action!” often echoed from his room. But the play became a concern for Ryan’s parents when he began waking up in the ...
Dr. Charles T. Pepper earned his medical degree in 1855 from the University of Virginia Medical School, then served as a surgeon for the Confederacy during the Civil War. After the war, Pepper moved ...
If history is “an argument without end,” as the historian Joseph Ellis says, then the dispute over whether Thomas Jefferson had sexual relations with his slave Sally Hemings might rank as one of the ...
When Alexis Ohanian (Com ’05) was a UVA history major with dyed “iguana-green” hair who loved Metallica and video games, it may have been hard to imagine that in just a few short years Forbes magazine ...
As plans for the University of Virginia began to take shape in Thomas Jefferson’s imagination, he envisioned a lawn surrounded on three sides by housing for students and professors, connected by ...