John Edwin Mason

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Grappling with the past

By Ben Hitchcock “I feel like I’ve been training for this one job for 30 years,” said Coy Barefoot when he took over...

Windfall blowback

UVA announced the biggest donation in its history, from hedge fund quant Jaffray Woodriff, with much pomp and...

Re-righting history

During her 15-year tenure as NBC “Today Show” co-anchor, UVA alum and journalist Katie Couric was known as America’s...

Skeletons in the closet

  After several weeks of prodding by a UVA researcher, the Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society produced two...

Teaching moment

While Charlottesville debates a petition to remove the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, a quieter...