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About Me
Teaching
- Guidelines for History Students
- Mason courses
- The Mason Historiographiki
- Layperson's Reading List
- "When Thomas Takes His Pen"
- Syllabus Archive
Research
Urban Riots
- "Nineteen Nineteen: The Boston Police Strike in the Context of American Labor," (A.B. thesis, Harvard University, 1992) {full-text]
Institutional Review Boards
- Institutional Review Blog
- "How Talking Became Human Subjects Research: The Federal Regulation of the Social Sciences, 1965-1991," Journal of Policy History 21 (2009): 3-37.
- “Ethical Training for Oral Historians,” Perspectives, March 2007.
Urban Transportation
- "'The Bus is Young and Honest': Transportation Politics, Technical Choice, and the Motorization of Manhattan Surface Transit, 1919-1936," Technology and Culture 41 (January 2000): 51-79 [PDF]
The Great Society Subway:
A History of the Washington Metro
Building the Washington Metro: An Online Exhibit
“The Freeway Fight in Washington, D.C.: The Three Sisters Bridge in Three Administrations,” Journal of Urban History 30 (July 2004): 648-673.
“Mapping Metro, 1955-1968: Urban, Suburban, and Metropolitan Alternatives,” Washington History 13 (Spring/Summer 2001): 4-23, 90-92.
Contact
Zachary M. Schrag
Associate Professor of History
Department of History and Art History
George Mason University
MSN 3G1 ¥ 4400 University Dr.
Fairfax, VA 22030-4444
zschrag (at) gmu.edu