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On September 25, 1957, nine African-American students began attending classes at Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas. Their presence, a result of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision, in Brown v. Board of Education, signaled the end of racially segregated schooling in Little Rock and the culmination of a bitter struggle that captured the world's attention.

Alan Wallach, the Ralph H. Wark Professor of Art and Art History and professor of American Studies at William and Mary, has been named as a recipient the 2006 Distinguished Teaching of Art History Award from the College Art Association.

Maureen Fitzgerald has had published her study of the Irish Catholic Sisters and their contributions to charitable care in New York City.

At the turn of the twentieth century, an emerging consumer culture in the United States promoted constant spending to meet material needs and develop social identity and self-cultivation.

Amy Howard (Ph.D., '05), currently associate director of the Bonner Center for Civic Engagement at the University of Richmond, was honored by the Urban History Association for "best" urban history dissertation of 2005. The award will be presented at the Association's annual dinner, scheduled for January 6, 2007, in Atlanta.

Grey Gundaker's No Space Hidden: The Spirit of African American Yard Work has recently been published by the University of Tennessee Press.