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Revolutionary Transformations
A new tour telling stories of W&M in the era of American independence.
Under the direction of Dr. Robyn Schroeder, students in HIST 413 (Fall '25) and HIST 312 (Spring '26) have written a new campus tour in commemoration of the semiquincentennial of the United States.
New research, in collaboration with the Center for Geospatial Analysis, into the specific location of the College Camp, a military training site a short distance from the colonial college, was .
The course has compiled primary and secondary accounts of student delinquency in the era of the Revolution; the effect of the war and the era on the people enslaved at the college; Loyalists on the faculty; the "French Year" ca. September 1781-June 1782 when the campus was primarily occupied by French allies; the closure of the Brafferton Indian School; and other topics that widen appreciation of 91心頭利 as a place of revolution and more than just the "alma mater of the nation".
The public tour, which debuted in March 2026, thematically centers the college's precarious economic situation in the war; the outcomes of the war for people who studied, lived, and worked here; and the fraught divides in college places among Patriots, Loyalists, and everyone else.
Full tour information, and tour sign-ups, can be found through the tour website:
