Cambridge University Press has just published David Mayers’s book, FDR’s Ambassadors and the Diplomacy of Crisis
This book constitutes an investigation into the part played by personality and circumstance in US foreign policy during World War II. This account of US envoys residing in the major belligerent countries–Japan, Germany, Italy, China, France, Great Britain, USSR–highlights the fascinating role assumed by such diplomats as Joseph Grew, William Dodd, William Bullitt, Joseph Kennedy, […]
Lost Colony: The Untold Story of China’s First Great Victory over the West
On November 8th, 2012, the Boston University Center for the Study of Asia (BUCSA) hosted a successful program, part of the BU Taiwan Forum sponsored by the Taiwan Economic and Cultural Office in Boston. Professors Tonio Andrade from Emory University, Xing Hang from Brandeis University, and Michael Szonyi from Harvard University discussed one of the […]
Zach Fredman Wins Samuel Flagg Bemis Grant
Graduate Student Zach Fredman has won the Samuel Flagg Bemis Dissertation Research Grant, awarded by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR). He will receive the award at the SHAFR luncheon, held at the Annual meeting of the American Historical Association in New Orleans.
Professor Simon Payaslian Presents Paper at Ministry of Diaspora in Armenia Conference
Professor Payaslian and Minister of Diaspora Hranush Hakopyan Professor Simon Payaslian, holder of the Kenosian Chair in Modern Armenian History and Literature, presented a paper entitled “The Effective Implementation of International Human Rights Law: Challenges Facing Armenia in the 21st Century,” at a conference organized by the Ministry of Diaspora in Armenia. The conference took […]
HI 190 Students Organize Exhibition at Massachusetts Historical Society
Professor Johnson and Students Work With a 17th Century Manuscript The History Department is delighted to invite the BU community to an exhibit and talk at the Massachusetts Historical Society presented by students of the course “Making History: Conflict and Community in Boston’s Past.” The exhibit, “King Philip’s War in Artifacts and Ideas,” documents the […]
History News Network Features Presidential History Conference
The History News Network is giving featured coverage to last month’s conference, “Recasting Presidential Conference,” co-sponsored by BU’s Institute for American Political History and the Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. In addition to David Austin Walsh’s thoughtful blog post on the purpose and proceedings of the conference, HNN has featured […]
Modern Intellectual History November 2012 Issue Published
Charles Capper edits Modern Intellectual History. His coeditors are Duncan Kelly (University of Cambridge), Anthony La Vopa (N.C. State), and Samuel Moyn (Columbia University). Published by Cambridge University Press, the journal serves as a focal point and forum for scholarship in intellectual history and related fields. Though its primary focus is on Europe and the […]
Alumni Night Round Up
History Beyond BU On October 11, the Undergraduate History Association and the History Department hosted “History Beyond BU,” an event which brought back former BU history majors to discuss how they have used their history degrees in various fields, including business, law, consulting, and medicine. An outstanding success, this event highlighted the important analytical, […]
BU’s American Political History Institute Co-Hosts Major Conference on Presidential History
On Friday and Saturday, October 26-27, 2012, at the University of Virginia, a group of eminent scholars gathered to discuss how to advance the study of presidential history. The conference, entitled “Recasting Presidential History” and co-organized by Professor Brian Balogh of UVA and Professor Bruce Schulman of BU, was a joint undertaking of BU’s American […]
Announcing the next Forum for Young Scholars on East European Jewry
The BU History Department and the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies are cooperating with Nevzlin Center at Hebrew University in organizing the Sixth Session of the International Forum of Young Scholars on East European Jewry, to be held this July in Odessa, Ukraine. This is an ongoing forum, comprised of 15 advanced PhD students (ABD) and […]