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History

Keeping Seeds Alive If the World as We Know It Ends

February 10, 2025

Image: A Modern wire frame mesh design vector illustration of the year "2023". Numbers are depicted with glowing neon green low polygonal digits on black background.

2023 in Review

Best of The Brink 2023: 10 Life-Changing Inventions, Amazing Discoveries, and Surprising Findings from BU Researchers

December 11, 2023

Image: Vintage engraving of a scene from the Charles Dickens novel "David Copperfield." The black sketch-style engraving shows a man writing at a desk as a woman sitting on the floor next to him looks over towards the desk. A large bookcase filled with bookcase is the backdrop.

Education

How Dickens and Other Authors Shaped Attitudes to Education—with Lasting Impacts

December 5, 2023

Book History

Video: Why the UK and US have Different Titles for the same Book

November 6, 2023

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Zombies

Meet the BU Professor Building an Online Zombie Movie Archive

October 27, 2023

Refugee camp where more than 1 million people live Atme camp Idlib Syria. Photo by iStock/Ahmet Akpolat

Forced Displacement

BU’s New Center on Forced Displacement Will Address the Global Refugee Crisis

October 6, 2022

Literature

Trent Masiki’s Afroethnic Renewal: Six Afro-Latino Memoirists You Should Know

September 15, 2021

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Return to Campus Labs

BU Unveils First Phase of Campuswide Research Recovery Plan

May 6, 2020

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Humanities

A Fascination with Disaster

August 15, 2018

Queen Anne by James A. Winn

Humanities

Queen Anne Reconsidered

February 6, 2015

Queen Anne Reconsidered