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Virginia State University was founded on March 6, 1882, when the legislature passed a bill to charter the Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute. The bill was sponsored by Delegate Alfred W. Harris, a Black attorney whose offices were in Petersburg, but who lived in and represented Dinwiddie County in the General Assembly. A hostile lawsuit ...
The 40-acre (160,000 m 2) north campus of VSU was the former home of Emory Junior College, a two-year institution which opened in 1928. [2] Enrollment was low in the 1930s during the Great Depression and the United States entry into World War II depleted the school's enrollment to the point that Emory Junior College had to close during the duration of the War.
The history of Canada covers the period from the arrival of the Paleo-Indians to North America thousands of years ago to the present day. The lands encompassing present-day Canada have been inhabited for millennia by Indigenous peoples , with distinct trade networks, spiritual beliefs, and styles of social organization.
VSU is an abbreviation that (among other things) can stand for: Valdosta State University, a university in Valdosta, Georgia, United States; Venstresocialisternes Ungdom, a former youth wing of the Danish political party Venstresocialisterne; Vikrama Simhapuri University, a university in the Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh, India
He spent the majority of his 40+ year teaching career at Virginia State University, and wrote ten books on the subjects of American and African-American history. He served on several historical boards including the National Park Service , Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History , the ...
18 February 1974 - Donald Creighton reviews Canada's expansion; 25 February 1974 - Portrait of New France 1600-1867 [3] 4 March 1974 - "Ties that Bind the Maritimes", Atlantic history from 1600 to 1867 [4] 11 March 1974 - "Upper Canada 1700-1900" [5] 18 March 1974 - "The Promised Land", part of the Whitecomers sub-series, concerning the Prairies
Count Alfred von Hammerstein (1870–1941), who arrived in the region in 1897, promoted the Athabasca oil sands for over forty years, taking photos with descriptive titles such as "Tar Sands and Flowing Asphaltum in the Athabasca District," that are now in the National Library and National Archives Canada. Photos of the Athabasca oil sands were ...
Possibly the oldest extant building / site in Canada. The permanent garrison left in 1854 and it became Canada's first National Historic Site in 1917. de Gannes-Cosby House: 1693 1708 [94] Annapolis Royal: Possibly the oldest, privately owned, wooden house in Canada. Some additions to house up to the 20th century. Adams-Ritchie House: 1686 [95 ...