Bill Crawley
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William B. Crawley, Jr. is currently a Distinguished Professor of History and Historian at the University of Mary Washington
in Fredericksburg, Virginia
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His primary teaching fields are recent American history and history of the South. He is the author of Bill Tuck: A Political Life in Harry Byrd’s Virginia. , held in several hundred libraries, according to WorldCat. In 1994 he received the College’s annual Grellet C. Simpson Award for outstanding teaching, and in 2005 the graduating seniors chose him for the Mary W. Pinschmidt Award as the professor who had the greatest impact on students' lives. He currently serves as Historian of the University, and his book on that subject, University of Mary Washington : a centennial history, 1908-2008 published in October 2008, follows the college through its first 100 years.
University of Mary Washington
The University of Mary Washington is a public, coeducational liberal arts college located in the city of Fredericksburg, Virginia, USA. Founded in 1908 by the Commonwealth of Virginia as a normal school, during much of the twentieth century it was part of the University of Virginia, until...
in Fredericksburg, Virginia
Fredericksburg, Virginia
Fredericksburg is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia located south of Washington, D.C., and north of Richmond. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 24,286...
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His primary teaching fields are recent American history and history of the South. He is the author of Bill Tuck: A Political Life in Harry Byrd’s Virginia. , held in several hundred libraries, according to WorldCat. In 1994 he received the College’s annual Grellet C. Simpson Award for outstanding teaching, and in 2005 the graduating seniors chose him for the Mary W. Pinschmidt Award as the professor who had the greatest impact on students' lives. He currently serves as Historian of the University, and his book on that subject, University of Mary Washington : a centennial history, 1908-2008 published in October 2008, follows the college through its first 100 years.