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Print depicting Ancient Campus as it would have appeared before 1859. The Brafferton (left) and President's House (right) flank the Wren Building. The history of the College of William & Mary can be traced back to a 1693 royal charter establishing "a perpetual College of Divinity, Philosophy, Languages, and the good arts and sciences" in the British Colony of Virginia.
The History of England from the Accession of James the Second (1848) is the full title of the five-volume work by Lord Macaulay (1800–1859) more generally known as The History of England. It covers the 17-year period from 1685 to 1702, encompassing the reign of James II , the Glorious Revolution , the coregency of William III and Mary II ...
The coronation of William and Mary, by Charles Rochussen. William III and Mary II reigned jointly until her death in 1694, when William became sole monarch. James' departure enabled William to take control of the provisional government on 28 December. [127] Elections were held in early January for a Convention Parliament, which assembled on 22 ...
The Wren Building (original build, 1695-1699 [4] [5] [1]) is the oldest building on the campus of the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, [not verified in body] which is the "nation’s second oldest seat of higher learning" in the United States. [1]
William Stith (1707 – September 19, 1755) [1] was an early American historian and an Anglican minister. [2] He was the third president of the College of William & Mary (1752–1755), where Stith Hall was named for him.
The College of William & Mary [b] (abbreviated as W&M [8]) is a public research university in Williamsburg, Virginia, United States.Founded in 1693 under a royal charter issued by King William III and Queen Mary II, it is the second-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and the ninth-oldest in the English-speaking world. [9]
In 2009, the college began the Lemon Project, an effort to research how enslaved people lived and worked at the college throughout its history. [4] In 2014, the Lemon Project's director, Jody Allen, along with instructor Ed Pease, asked students to submit proposals for a possible memorial to the enslaved.
Though grounded in history, it welcomes works from all disciplines bearing on the early American period—for example, literature, law, political science, anthropology, archaeology, material culture, and cultural studies. The journal is named after the College of William and Mary where it was founded in 1892. [1]