Members of the list may be interested in one or more of these talks/events.

1) The Spring 2014 Symposium of the Lemon Project at the College of William and Mary, March 14/15, featuring as plenary speaker Craig Wilder, author of "Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities"; full details at

		http://www.wm.edu/sites/lemonproject/Events/symposium/2014%20symp/index.php

	(free and open to the public; registration will get you a free lunch; note that on Friday evening, March 14, at the Bruton Heights School auditorium [across from CW's Rockefeller Library], Dr. Wilder will also lead a discussion of his book, where [spoiler alert] some Virginia colleges and universities are mentioned.) 

2) The annual meeting of the Williamsburg Historic Records Association: Sunday, April 27, 3 p.m., Tucker 127/127A, on the W&M Campus.  Lisa and Sean Heuvel speaking on William and Mary and the Civil War.  Free and open to the public.  Other information: 

			 http://wmpeople.wm.edu/site/page/whra/

3) A third Summer Field School in Archeology digging for evidence of The Bray School (a school for the religious education of black children, free and enslaved).  Volunteers are welcome, and students, undergraduate and graduate,  might be interested in taking the course:

			http://research.history.org/Archaeological_Research/Programs/Field_School.cfm

		Here's a CW podcast (with available transcription) on the dig so far:

			http://podcast.history.org/2013/12/30/the-past-revealed-archaeology-at-the-bray-school/

4) Professor Nicholas Guyatt 

		http://www.york.ac.uk/history/staff/profiles/guyatt/

at W&M in April to talk on "Founding Fathers, Antislavery Protégés and the 'Difficult Work' of Emancipation," with attention to the Protégés,  William Short and Edward Coles, two W&M graduates  largely forgotten on campus these days, but aides to Jefferson and Madison.

	Details to come.

	
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Terry L.. Meyers, Chancellor Professor of English, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg Virginia  23187              757-221-3932

		http://wmpeople.wm.edu/site/page/tlmeye/   

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