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CML work appears twice in the newest Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation (JSDP). The journal's September 2025 issue (Volume 6 Issue 3) features articles by doctoral student David Armstrong, co-authored by CML Director George Oberle. and faculty affiliate Sheri Ann Huerta, PhD. From slaveholding data almost by definition dehumanizing, the authors hope "to restore some of the personhood to the generations of people enslaved" in Virginia. 

English major Amaiyah-Monet Parker and Integrative Studies major Alessaundra Shallal presented posters in OSCAR's Celebration of Student Research and Impact. Shallal expressed gratitude for Manuel-Scott’s “unwavering” support over nearly two years, crediting her mentorship for enabling her to pursue her research across semesters and “maintain faith in the progression of inclusion in academia.”

Education is under attack, say Cattaneo and Manuel-Scott, precisely because of its liberatory potential. Educators who are committed to the empowerment of those students are an obstacle for those in power who want their populace complicit or quiet. 

In the first of an annual Constitution Day series devoted to on our foundational document's impact and changing meanings, the Center for Mason Legacies drew more than one hundred guests to a for an informative and thought-provoking discussion grappling with questions of formation and change of the presidential role and current moves to expand it.

What if Americans could revisit the founders' debate over creating the electoral college? In a way, they now can, thanks to a new virtual reality history site recently presented by CML and Digital Scholarship Services.

Dobbins, a doctoral student at George Mason University and CML's community historian. can document her family's presence in Fairfax going back seven generations and is the author of a new book about county history, "The Lost Black Communities of Merrifield, The Pines, and Williamstown."

If an academic center's buttons could burst, CML's would pop with pride over the scholarly achievements and, now, graduation laurels racked up by two of our most active undergraduates, Shemika Curvey and Andrew Snowman, who both call CML central to their scholarly growth.

George Mason University faculty Lauren B. Cattaneo and Wendi Manuel-Scott are co-authors of "Martin Luther King Jr.’s Call for Creative Maladjustment Has Much to Offer Educators in the Modern Battleground." Newly published in the Harvard Educational Review, it examines King's 1967 challenge to social scientists to question disciplinary norms.

Fairfax Circuit Court's historic Slavery Index project now offers digital access to more than 40,000 documents tied to slavery in Northern Virginia. The project makes court-related experiences of the enslaved, enslavers, freed individuals, hirers, patrollers, and others all viewable on the court's website.

CML scholar Sheri Huerta looked at how the upheaval of Revolutionary War affected the lives and choices of enslaved and free Black people in Loudoun County. Huerta also studies the varied ways enslaved Virginians saw, in the war's turmoil, newfound opportunities to define liberty.