George Mason University Electronic Documentary History

Documentary history makes it possible for readers and researchers to gain a first-hand understanding of an historic time, place, person, event, or institution through relevant contemporary documents. The George Mason University - Electronic Documentary History (GMU-EDH) is designed to promote such an understanding of the history of George Mason University as an institution. The chronological narrative is supplemented with links to digital representations of significant documents in its history. Some of the documents serve as important waypoints in the history of an evolving institution, while others show us what something or someone looked like twenty, thirty, forty, or fifty years ago. Still others detail quite simply, and sometimes humorously, the Mason experience. This project was initially conceived in 1997 and was rededicated in 2007 for the celebration of two simultaneous Mason milestones: the fiftieth anniversary of George Mason's existence as an academic institution and it's thirty-fifth year as an independent university. The original version was re-engineered to to access digital documents, including audiovisual materials, now residing in George Mason University's Mason Archival Repository Service (MARS).