Prof. Siegel’s Research Featured in BU’s Brink Publication
The Brink, BU’s publication on the exciting research coming out of the university, recently featured Professor Benjamin Siegel’s work on his forthcoming book Markets of Pain: A Transnational History of the United States Opioid Crisis. The article, titled “Tracking the Path of the Opioid Crisis,” is available at The Brink‘s website.
Prof. Ferleger Publishes Article in The Washington Post
Professor Louis Ferleger contributed an article to The Washington Post‘s “Made by History” series. The article, titled “Donald Trump’s continued assault on government workers betrays American farmers,” is available to read at The Washington Post‘s website here.
Prof. David’s American Presidency Course Featured in BU Today
Professor Andrew David’s course “HI 283: The Twentieth-Century American Presidency” was recently profiled by BU Today in an article titled “Teaching Impeachment during an Impeachment Inquiry.” The piece is available to read on BU Today’s website here.
Prof. Nolan to Moderate Q&A Session at New England Historic Genealogical Society
On November 12th, 2019, Professor Cathal Nolan will be the guest moderator for a Q&A session with Donald L. Miller, the John Henry MacCracken Professor Emeritus of History at Lafayette College and the author of Vicksburg: Grant’s Campaign that Broke the Confederacy. The event is part of the New England Historic Genealogical Society’s “American Inspiration” series of […]
Prof. Schulman Publishes “State of the Field” Article in Reviews in American History
Professor Bruce Schulman’s article, “Post-1968 US History: Neo-Consensus History for the Age of Polarization,” appeared in the September 2019 issue of Reviews in American History. You can access the article here.
Prof. Chernock Publishes Review in Times Literary Supplement
Professor Arianne Chernock reviewed Virginia Nicholson’s book How Was It For You?: Women, sex, love and power in the 1960s in the Times Literary Supplement. The review, titled “Pills, thrills and bigotries: Women’s lives in the Swinging Sixties,” can be found on the TLS’s website here.
C-SPAN Airs Talk with Prof. Nolan at National WWII Museum
In August, Professor Cathal Nolan discussed the 1944 Paris and Warsaw uprisings with Rob Citino at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans. C-SPAN recently broadcast the conversation, which is available to stream at C-SPAN’s website here.
BU History Alum Maggie Scull Releases Book on Oxford University Press
The first monograph by Dr. Maggie Scull (CAS ’11) has just come out with Oxford University Press on the role of the Catholic Church during the Northern Ireland Troubles, 1968-98. Scull completed her Masters and PhD at King’s College London and is now an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the National University of Ireland, […]
Prof. Emeritus Fred Leventhal Co-Authors Book for Oxford University Press
Professor Emeritus Fred Leventhal is the joint author (with Peter Stansky of Stanford) of a new biography, Leonard Woolf: Bloomsbury Socialist, published in August by Oxford University Press.
Prof. Chernock Releases New Book on Cambridge University Press
This month, Cambridge University Press is publishing a new book by Professor Arianne Chernock titled The Right to Rule and the Rights of Women: Queen Victoria and the Women’s Movement. In anticipation of the book’s release, Professor Chernock wrote a post for the Cambridge University Press blog.