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Longwood Gets #HAPPY!

March 26, 2014

Longwood Happy #HappyDayLU #EXPECThappiness
Top civil rights official will headline symposium marking anniversary of Prince Edward Free Schools movement

March 25, 2014

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.
Letterpress-printed book project at Longwood commemorates Prince Edward County’s civil rights struggle

March 25, 2014

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.
Facebook sweepstakes will land one lucky Longwood friend a luxury campus visit

March 24, 2014

One lucky Facebook fan of Longwood University will win a VIP luxury trip to campus in April.
Author of book on Barbara Johns to speak at Longwood April 2

March 21, 2014

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.
4 Ways the Humanities Add Life to Your Life

March 20, 2014

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.
Serial killers’ crimes against their victims’ bodies studied by Longwood sociologist

March 17, 2014

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 to host 15th Annual Civil War Seminar March 15

March 12, 2014

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.
2014 elections’ impact on investors to be focus of Longwood presentation March 13

March 12, 2014

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.
Author of Hatfields and McCoys book to speak at Longwood March 27

March 12, 2014

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.