Author: Jillian Nichols

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. 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. 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.