Use Restrictions

The copyright and related rights status of this collection have not been evaluated (See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/)

Materials created prior to 1925 are in the Public Domain. These materials have no known restrictions.

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Preferred Citation

Northern Virginia history collection, Collection C0123, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.

Acquisition Information

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

Processing Information

Processed by Special Collections Research Center 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.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• George Mason University
• Newsletters
• Newspapers
• Northern Virginia
• Northern Virginia Association for History
• Virginia, Northern
• Virginia, Northern -- History
• Virginia, Northern -- History, Local