Emily Fleenor’s Found Artifact

    My group is doing juxtapositions of the fashions from the 1970s, the 1910s, and the 2010s. The artifact I will be focusing on personally is the 1973 Schoolmarm, or yearbook. My contribution will be finding pictures that capture the essence of the 1970s to compare...

JMU Men’s Basketball Poster

This is a basketball poster created in 1991 advertising the JMU Dukes Men’s basketball team and their games from November 1991 to March 1992. This advertisement is for an experience for JMU students as well as a revenue source for athletics.  The top left corner of...

Morgan Buckley’s Found Artifact

For my group’s web project, we plan to focus on significant figures in James Madison University’s history formerly known as Madison College. Specifically, we will be conducting our research on figures that are not typically discussed. As we research and continue...

William’s Found Artifact

Pictured in this photograph is Les Branich. The importance of this photograph is that this is a picture of JMU’s first Quarterback. This photo was taken in 1975 which was the final season Branich would play for JMU. He was a member of the team when it began in...

Allison’s Found Artifact

When it first opened in 1908, James Madison University (formerly known as Madison College from 1938 to 1977) initially only admitted white female students, but the ruling on Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 would call for desegregation of all public schools....