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 […]

The Historical Society of Fairfax County and the McLean Historical Society will cosponsor Madeline Feierstein, author of Occupied Alexandria, on Tuesday, Feb. 9, at 7:30 p.m. in the McLean Community Center, 1234 […]