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Department Co-Sponsors 8th Annual International Conference in American Political History
At lunch on Saturday, Sean Wilentz, the Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor of History at Princeton, led conference-goers on a walking tour of Princeton’s cemetery. The graveyard contains the remains of Grover Cleveland, Aaron Burr, Jonathan Edwards, and George Kennan, among other luminaries. Pictured here graduate students Daniel Burge, Matt... More
History Department Wins Mellon Foundation Grant for Sawyer Seminar on “Reinterpreting Twentieth Century”
Led by Professors Brooke Blower, Jonathan Zatlin, Andrew Bacevich, and Bruce Schulman, the History Department has won a prestigious grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support a John E. Sawyer Seminar during academic year 2014-15. The grant will support a year-long program, “Reinterpreting the Twentieth Century,” that will... More
China and Europe in the Early Modern Period: Summer News from Professor Menegon
University of Bern – Bern, Switzerland At the invitation of Professor Christian Windler, Director of the Section on Early Modern History at the Historical Institute of the University of Bern (Switzerland), Professor Eugenio Menegon presented to doctoral students and faculty his recent research on the daily life and political networking of... More
Professor Andrew Bacevich Appears on The Colbert Report
Professor Andrew Bacevich appeared on The Colbert Report on May 23 to discuss the revision of the Authorization to Use Military Force. The clip can be seen below:
Prize Winners Klepper and Gillies Reflect On Their Experiences As History Majors
At the History Department Commencement Convocation, at the Law School Auditorium on May 18, 2013, graduating seniors Rachel Klepper, winner of the Warren Ault Prize, and Connor Gillies, winner of the College Prize for Excellence in History, spoke about their experiences as Bu undergraduates. The texts of their remarks are... More
Professor Diana Wylie named 2013-14 Senior Fulbright Research Scholar
Diana Wylie will spend next academic year as a Senior Fulbright Research Scholar in Morocco. Since 2010 she has visited the neighboring country of Algeria four times primarily to research the work of a historic preservation movement in the city of Oran. In October 2012 she published an article on... More
Graduate Student Zach Fredman’s Research Profiled in “Arts & Sciences” Magazine
Zach Fredman's (GRS’16) research was profiled in "Walking the Line: History grad student seeks the truth in two sides of a tale." appearing in the most recent edition of Arts & Sciences. See the online version here.
Professor Tom Glick Retires After Four Decades at BU
Professor Thomas Glick will retire on June 30, 2013 after more than four decades at BU. A prodigious scholar (the author, co-author and editor of 30 books and hundreds of scholarly articles), who has won every award the discipline offers (including Guggenheim, NEH, National Science Foundation, and Fulbright fellowships), Tom Glick... More
Professor Anna Geifman Retires
Professor Anna Geifman has retired after 23 years on the BU faculty. Born in the Soviet Union, Anna Geifman emigrated to the United States as a child and, except for a stint as a Ph.D. student at Harvard, has spent her entire adult life at BU. She took her B.A. More
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