Boston University

History

Photo of Retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Enoch Woodhouse in a blue suit jacket, baseball cap, and red neck-tie with his hands extended towards a crowd of chief petty officer selects aboard USS Constitution, who wear camo and tan baseball caps.

History

One of the Last Surviving Tuskegee Airmen on Being Part of Famous All-Black Air Squadron

February 25, 2021

Composite image of a hand holding an icecream cone and a portrait on Hannah Spiegelman. On the left, a hand with golden nail polish holds an ice cream cone. The ice cream cone is a light brown color with chunks graham cracker and candy, named “Goonies Never Say Die.” On the right, a photo of Hannah, a young woman with round glasses, icicle-blue curly hair, wearing a pink shirt with ice cream cones and the phrase “I scream for reproductive rights.” Hannah holds a dripping ice cream cone and smiles wide, as if mid laugh. A flower bush is seen blurred behind her.

Food History

Alum’s Blog Combines Twin Passions: History and Ice Cream

February 17, 2021

Photo of the headstones of Rebecca Lee Crumpler (MED'1864), reading "the first Black woman to earn a medical degree in the US." and her husband Arthuer Crumpler. The headstones are at the Fairview Cemetery in Hyde Park. Bright green grass grows around the headstones.

Historic Alumni

Trailblazing BU Alum Gets a Gravestone 125 Years after Her Death

August 7, 2020

A Boston University football player runs the ball in the 1969 Pasadena Bowl game.

Football

50 Years Ago, the BU Football Team Played Its Only Bowl Game

December 5, 2019

Joe bagley holding a Chinese lantern artifact found in an archaeological dig of Boston's Chinatown neighborhood.

Archaeology

The Alum Digging Up Chinatown’s Archaeological Treasures

October 9, 2019

black and white portrait of Henry Worsley in winter gear

Literature

Exploring Endurance

February 19, 2019

Portrait of Sybil Haydel Morial, author of the book Witness to Change: From Jim Crow to Political Empowerment

History

Making History

February 14, 2017

9/11 Memorial Museum Head Curator Jan Seidler Ramirez standing in front of the Virgil Quote exhibit at the 9/11 Memorial Museum

Alumni

Honoring Life

September 9, 2016

David Wluka at the Nowy Dwór Jewish Memorial

History

Saving an Ancestral Cemetery

October 26, 2015

Roberto Mighty, multimedia artist, artist in residence, Mount Auburn cemetary, Cambridge Massachusetts

Alumni

Making Art among the Dead

October 3, 2014

Making Art among the Dead