Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

There are no access restrictions.

Use Restrictions

There are no restrictions on personal use. Permission to publish material from the Northern Virginia history collection must be obtained from Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.

Preferred Citation

Northern Virginia history collection, C0123, Special Collections and Archives, George Mason University Libraries.

Acquisition Information

Collection was donated by the George Mason University Department of History.

Processing Information

Processed by Special Collections and Archives staff. EAD markup completed by Eron Ackerman and Jordan Patty in April 2009.

Historical Information

The George Mason University Department of History was actively involved in the promotion and documentation of Northern Virginia history during the 1970s and 1980s. As other local history organizations became more involved in Northern Virginia history, the history department ceased collecting material.

Scope and Content

This collection contains materials on the history of Northern Virginia, including "Northern Virginia Heritage," a George Mason University local history journal from the 1980s, a few dozen issues of "The Courier," newsletter for the Northern Virginia Association of Historians, and eight boxes of newsclippings dating from 1911-1970, which were compiled by the GMU History Department in the 1970s.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged by date and subject.

Related Material

Special Collections and Archives holds many other collections on the history of Northern Virginia.

Index Terms

Corporate Names:

• Northern Virginia Association for History.

Geographical Names:

• Virginia, Northern--History.

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