Phillips Publishes New Book
Co-written with Shame Hamilton, Professor Sarah Phillips’ newly published book The Kitchen Debate and Cold War Consumer Politics is available from Bedford/St. Martin’s and Amazon. This innovative treatment of the Kitchen Debate reveals the event not only as a symbol of U.S. -Soviet military and diplomatic rivalry but as a battle over living standards that profoundly […]
Schulman Edits New Book–Making the American Century
Oxford University press has just published Making the American Century, a collection of essays on the political culture of 20th Century America, edited by Professor Bruce Schulman. “Are the American people a nation,” Senator Albert Beveridge asked in 1898, or are they “an aggregation of localities?” Beveridge had little doubt that the new century would […]
Fredman Wins Dissertation Fellowship
Graduate student Zach Fredman received the W. Stull Holt Dissertation Fellowship from The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. Please join us in congratulating Zach on this accomplishment!
Undergraduate Megan McCauley Wins NACBS Essay Award
Megan McCauley has won the North American Conference on British Studies’ Undergraduate Essay Prize for her essay, “Round the Empire in a Day’: Exhibiting Empire at Wembley, 1924”. She is the second History Major to win this prize in the past two years. Please join us in congratulating her on this fine achievement!
History Department Mixer and Course Confidential
Sponsored by the Undergraduate History Association, Come enjoy good conversation and food with your favorite history professors and other history students! Before you set your schedule, come find out about the courses being offered in the Spring. This is an opportunity to find out more than just the course description will tell you! Thurs November […]
Schulman Compares Obamacare and Social Security Rollouts
You can read the full article on Reuters here: http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/10/28/what-about-social-securitys-rollout/
Schulman at Minnesota History Center
On Saturday, October 12, Professor Bruce Schulman opened the annual History Forum at the Minnesota History Center in St. Paul. Speaking to a sell-out crowd in excess of 500 people, Schulman’s presentation, “Are We A Nation?” The Emergence of Modern America, 1896-1929,” kicked off a series of lectures around the theme, “The Vast Possibilities: America […]
October Department Newsletter Published
The October edition of the BU History Department newsletter–The Presence of the Past–has just appeared. You can access the newsletter here: http://bit.ly/1gL3kr3 Want More? Follow us on Twitter: http://bit.ly/yLjBug Like us on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/wDHriC Subscribe to our RSS Feed: http://bit.ly/z6xblY
Professor Simon Rabinovitch Publishes Article in Haaretz on Pakistan’s ‘Jewish’ roots
See the full article here.
Modern Intellectual History August 2013 Issue Published
MIH 10.3, November Articles Josh Ehrlich, “William Robertson and Scientific Theism” Iain McDaniel, “Philosophical History and the Science of Man in Scotland: Adam Ferguson’s Answer to Rousseau’s Second Discourse” Katja Guenther, “The disappearing lesion – Sigmund Freud, sensory-motor physiology, and the beginnings of psychoanalysis” Daniel Geary, “Children of The Lonely Crowd: David Riesman, the Young Radicals, […]