11 a.m. at City of Fairfax Regional Library (10360 North St, Fairfax, VA 22030) Andrew Snowman, GMU Masters student in History will present his research – “Policing of Black Bodies in […]

Historical Society members meet with Fairfax County Retired Educators and Historic Schoolhouses of Northern Virginia to discuss possibilities for the school’s future. Location: Legato School and Museum (on Chain Bridge […]

The Historical Society of Fairfax County is hosting historian Susan Hellman to discuss her documentation on The Negro Travelers’ Green Book.  Due to its centralized location along the mid-Atlantic coast, Virginia maintained […]

Historic Pleasant Grove Church and Museum- short meeting and museum tour. 8641 Lewinsville Rd., McLean, VA

Cosponsored with George Mason University’s Center for Mason Legacies. At GMU’s Fenwick Library, Room 1014A. David Armstrong discusses his research on Elizabeth Hooe. Jasper Ramsay will talk about George Mason […]

Cosponsored with Friends of the Colvin Run Mill. Society member and archaeologist Emily Smith presents To Make Holiday: Identifying the Presence and Practice of Alcohol Consumption on the Ancient Egyptian Colonial […]

Fairfax County History Commission conference with partners HSFC, Fairfax County Park Authority, Fairfax 250, and GMU. Official schedule and additional information below! The conference and events are free, but registration […]

Society historian and board member George Oberle, PhD, will discuss his new book Creating an Informed Citizenry: Knowledge and Democracy in the Early American Republic Book signing and sales. Historic […]

Annual meeting with elections and program. Elections will be held to select all officers and 4 board members. Historian Mary Lipsey will present Breaking Down Barriers: An African American History Inventory. […]

GMU Fairfax campus, Fenwick Library, Main Reading Room (room 2001) Richard MacMaster, an expert on George Mason and author or co-author of many books, will be our guest speaker. He […]

Susan Hellman is an architectural historian and a direct descendant of the Quakers who founded the free labor community at Woodlawn. She retired from the Historic Preservation Division of the […]

Come hear historian Mary Lipsey share the little-known story of Dr. William Christmas, one of America’s early aviation pioneers and the first American to fly after the Wright Brothers. Christmas built […]