The nation’s highest-ranking education civil rights official will headline a symposium at Longwood on April 7 marking the 50th anniversary of the Prince Edward Free Schools movement and surveying the current landscape of civil rights in education.
A Longwood University project is commemorating the 50th anniversary of a private effort to educate schoolchildren in Prince Edward County, where public schools closed from 1959-64 rather than comply with integration.
One lucky Facebook fan of Longwood University will win a VIP luxury trip to campus in April.
Teri Kanefield, an author whose books for young readers include a biography of civil rights pioneer and Prince Edward County native Barbara Johns, will speak Wednesday, April 2, at 7 p.m. in Longwood University’s Wygal Auditorium.
What does it mean to be human? To be a member of society, contributing to the human experience? At Longwood, the site of the 2014 Virginia Humanities Conference on March 21-22, a conversation about the humanities is ongoing.
Some serial killers violate their victims’ bodies after they’re dead. Nobody can explain these grisly deeds, but a Longwood University sociologist has catalogued the methods and the motivation of their madness.
Longwood University and Appomattox Court House National Historical Park are teaming up again to host the 15th Annual Civil War Seminar on Saturday, March 15.
The effects of this year’s elections on investors and speculators will be explored in a Longwood University presentation. The program is set for Thursday, March 13, at 7 p.m. in Molnar Recital Hall in Wygal and will feature Dennis Gartman.
Dean King, an award-winning and best-selling author whose nonfiction books include a recent account of the Hatfield-McCoy feud, will speak Thursday, March 27, at 7 p.m. in Longwood University’s Wygal Auditorium.
Longwood University has been named the host institution of the Virginia Geographic Alliance, a statewide partnership between college professors and K-12 teachers dedicated to improving geographic awareness and skills.