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  • Great start to 2023! The University of Durham in England Joins Universities Studying Slavery! January 12, 2023
  • Please Welcome Centre College (Danville, Kentucky) to Universities Studying Slavery! September 22, 2022
  • Exciting News! Amherst College Joins Universities Studying Slavery (USS)! September 22, 2022
  • Fall 2022 Universities Studying Slavery Conference (Sept. 28-Oct. 1) August 9, 2022
  • The Loomis Chaffee School in Connecticut Joins the Growing USS Movement! May 31, 2022
  • Please Welcome Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, to Universities Studying Slavery! April 26, 2022
  • Franklin & Marshall College in Pennsylvania joins Universities Studying Slavery! April 5, 2022
  • Colombia’s Universidad del Rosario Joins and Universities Studying Slavery (USS) Expands into South America March 25, 2022
  • We Welcome the United Kingdom’s University of Aberdeen to Universities Studying Slavery (USS)! March 1, 2022
  • Queens University Becomes Eighth School in North Carolina to Join Universities Studying Slavery (USS)! January 12, 2022
  • Randolph-Macon College Joins Universities Studying Slavery (USS). January 12, 2022
  • North Carolina’s Mars Hill University Joins Universities Studying Slavery! December 6, 2021
  • Please Welcome Loyola University Maryland to Universities Studying Slavery (USS) November 29, 2021
  • The Phillips Academy Joins Universities Studying Slavery November 29, 2021
  • Spring 2022 Universities Studying Slavery (USS) Symposium Call for Papers! October 20, 2021
  • Universities Studying Slavery Spring 2022 Symposium Dates Announced October 20, 2021
  • Francis Marion University Becomes Seventh School in South Carolina to Join Universities Studying Slavery (USS)! September 16, 2021
  • Abilene Christian University Becomes Fourth Texas School to Join Universities Studying Slavery! August 30, 2021
  • Vanderbilt University Joins Universities Studying Slavery (USS)! June 28, 2021
  • Please Welcome Wofford College in South Carolina to Universities Studying Slavery (USS)! June 15, 2021
  • Washington University in St. Louis Becomes Latest School to Join Universities Studying Slavery (USS) Team! May 4, 2021
  • Please Welcome the University of Delaware as the Newest Member of Universities Studying Slavery (USS)! May 4, 2021
  • Towson University Becomes Seventh Maryland School to Join USS February 16, 2021
  • Emory University Has Joined the USS Movement February 16, 2021
  • Enslaved African Americans Walking Tour Map & App Updated for 2021! February 16, 2021
  • Trinity University in San Antonio Becomes the Third Texas School to Join Universities Studying Slavery. February 5, 2021
  • Please Welcome John Jay College of Criminal Justice to Universities Studying Slavery January 25, 2021
  • UVA’s Slavery and Legacies Curriculum Expands January 18, 2021
  • Yale University Joins Universities Studying Slavery! December 23, 2020
  • Please Welcome Johns Hopkins University to Universities Studying Slavery! December 9, 2020
  • Mercer University and Universities Studying Slavery (USS) November 24, 2020
  • University of Cambridge Joins Universities Studying Slavery. November 18, 2020
  • Fall 2021 USS Conference issues Call for Papers. October 30, 2020
  • North Carolina’s Appalachian State University launches programs and joins Universities Studying Slavery! October 22, 2020
  • McGill University is the Fourth Canadian School to Join USS. October 21, 2020
  • Exciting news from Texas! Texas Christian University Joins Universities Studying Slavery! August 19, 2020
  • Please welcome the University of Maryland to the Universities Studying Slavery (USS) team! July 27, 2020
  • Meredith College Joins Universities Studying Slavery (USS)! July 27, 2020
  • Please Welcome Allegany College of Maryland to Universities Studying Slavery (USS)! July 13, 2020
  • The Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) has joined USS! March 24, 2020
  • Rice University Becomes the 63rd School to Join Universities Studying Slavery! March 3, 2020
  • Please Welcome Alabama’s Athens State University to Universities Studying Slavery (USS). February 12, 2020
  • Southern University Law Center Becomes Sixty-First Member of Universities Studying Slavery (USS)! February 4, 2020
  • Universities Studying Slavery (USS) welcomes the University of New Brunswick (UNB) as the newest school to join! February 3, 2020
  • Please Welcome Southern Illinois University Edwardsville to the Universities Studying Slavery (USS) consortium! February 3, 2020
  • The University of Nottingham Becomes the Sixth English School to Join USS! January 13, 2020
  • The University of Georgia Joins Universities Studying Slavery (USS)! December 16, 2019
  • Please Welcome Bard College to Universities Studying Slavery (USS)! August 26, 2019
  • Universities Studying Slavery (USS) honored by the Society of American Archivists! August 26, 2019
  • The University of Manchester Joins Universities Studying Slavery… July 11, 2019
  • A Quick Recap of the March 2019 Universities Studying Slavery (USS) Meeting in Williamsburg. April 5, 2019
  • Harvard University Joins the Universities Studying Slavery (USS) Movement! March 19, 2019
  • Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, Joins Universities Studying Slavery (USS)! February 26, 2019
  • Please welcome the University of Liverpool to Universities Studying Slavery (USS)! February 25, 2019
  • Liverpool John Moores University is the latest English School to join the Universities Studying Slavery (USS) movement! February 1, 2019
  • Please Welcome Elon University to Universities Studying Slavery (USS)! February 1, 2019
  • Dickinson College Joins the Universities Studying Slavery (USS) Movement. January 30, 2019
  • Spring 2019 Universties Studying Slavery (USS) meeting and conference January 15, 2019
  • Saint Louis University (In partnership with Jesuits USA Central and Southern Province) joins USS! November 14, 2018
  • Morgan State University has joined Universities Studying Slavery. October 15, 2018
  • Please Welcome Xavier University in Ohio to Universities Studying Slavery! September 26, 2018
  • North Carolina’s Guilford College Joins Universities Studying Slavery. September 21, 2018
  • University College Cork Becomes First School in Ireland to join USS! September 12, 2018
  • PCSU Report to President Teresa A. Sullivan (2018) July 27, 2018
  • Please Welcome Ohio’s University of Cincinnati as the Newest Member of Universities Studying Slavery (USS). April 25, 2018
  • Please Welcome Hampden-Sydney College to the Universities Studying Slavery Family. April 20, 2018
  • The College of Charleston Joins Universities Studying Slavery! April 20, 2018
  • University of King’s College (Halifax, Nova Scotia) joins Universities Studying Slavery. March 19, 2018
  • Tougaloo College Joins Universities Studying Slavery. February 23, 2018
  • James Madison University Joins the Universities Studying Slavery (USS) Movement. February 22, 2018
  • Salem Academy and College (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) Joins Universities Studying Slavery. February 7, 2018
  • Our Five Year Journey of Research, Acknowledgement, Education, and Atonement. February 7, 2018
  • Please Welcome the University of Richmond to Universities Studying Slavery. January 17, 2018
  • The United Kingdom’s University of Bristol has joined Universities Studying Slavery. November 19, 2017
  • Please welcome The Citadel as the newest Universities Studying Slavery school! November 8, 2017
  • George Mason University Joins Universities Studying Slavery! October 17, 2017
  • New Enslaved African Americans Walking Tour Map for 2017 October 13, 2017
  • Universities Studying Slavery Now Stretches Across the Atlantic Ocean! August 31, 2017
  • Davidson College Joins the Universities Studying Slavery Movement! August 24, 2017
  • Universities Studying Slavery welcomes Wesleyan College! July 26, 2017
  • October 18-21, 2017 Symposium Schedule July 26, 2017
  • Universities Studying Slavery Welcomes Brown University June 22, 2017
  • Universities, Slavery, and Public Memory—a new addition to the PCSU Curriculum June 5, 2017
  • Universities Studying Slavery (USS) Welcomes Furman University! May 30, 2017
  • A Brief History of Free People of Color and UVA April 12, 2017
  • Henry Martin March 27, 2017
  • Inaugural Liberation and Freedom Day March 4, 2017
  • Save the Date: Universities, Slavery, Public Memory, & The Built Landscape Symposium Dates Announced February 27, 2017
  • Memorial to Enslaved Laborers Forums February 20, 2017
  • USS welcomes Columbia University! February 17, 2017
  • USS welcomes new members Rutgers University and Wake Forest University! February 9, 2017
  • Universities Studying Slavery (USS)–The Birth of a Movement February 3, 2017
  • USS Welcomes the University of the South (Sewanee) and Dalhousie University! December 5, 2016
  • Rotunda Renovations Complete–New Visitor’s Center Now Open. December 2, 2016
  • Inaugural Cornerstone Summer Institute (2016) Was a Smashing Success! December 1, 2016
  • Universities Studying Slavery (USS) Fall 2016 Meeting Recap October 4, 2016
  • Universities Studying Slavery (USS) Meeting at The College of William & Mary October 3, 2016
  • Slavery and its Legacies–The Birth of the PCSU Curriculum. September 23, 2016
  • Gibbons House Exterior Panels Installed! September 22, 2016
  • Universities Studying Slavery (USS) Meeting September 30 & October 1. September 6, 2016

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