Richard Hamilton

Serving the Old Dominion: A History of Christopher Newport University, 1958-2011 Richard Hamilton

This book tells the story of Virginia's youngest state university during the late twentieth and the early twenty-first centuries. Opened in 1961 in Newport News as a commuter school with 170 students, Christopher Newport University (CNU) today is a highly selective college serving 5,000 students from across the state and is a vital part of life on the Virginia Peninsula.