Prof. Schulman’s “Media and Politics” Course Featured in BU Today
Professor Bruce Schulman’s course on “Media and Politics in Modern America” was featured in BU Today‘s “One Class, One Day” series alongside its team-taught counterpart “The Presidency and the Media,” offered by COM Professor of Journalism Chris Daly. The feature, titled “Trump and the Press: We’ve Been Here Before,” is available to read at BU Today here.
Kansas Press Publishes New Book by BU PhD Seth Blumenthal
The University Press of Kansas has just published Children of the Silent Majority: Young Voters and the Rise of the Republican Party, 1968-1980. Currently Senior Lecturer in the BU Writing Program, Blumenthal unearths the remarkable, largely unappreciated story of outreach to young voters by Republicans and conservatives in the 1960s and 1970s. Based on his […]
Fall Updates from the History Graduate Student Organization
As October comes to a close, we wanted to recap the various events that took place at 226 BSR up until now. First, our own Charley Binkow led us through a lively discussion of Henry IV, Part One for this year’s first installment of the Shakespeare Book Club. We then braved Salem on a weekend in […]
Harvard University Press Publishes New Book by BU PhD Matt Pressman
Harvard University Press has just published On Press: The Liberal Values That Shaped the News, by BU Ph.D. Matthew Pressman. Currently Assistant Professor at Seton Hall University, Pressman analyzes the transformation of American journalism in the years after World War II. Based on his BU dissertation, and extensive research in the archives of the New York […]
BU History PhD Anne Blaschke Co-Writes WaPo Column on Kavanaugh Hearing
BU History PhD Anne Blaschke, now a Visiting Assistant Professor of History at the College of the Holy Cross, co-wrote an article in The Washington Post’s “Made By History” section. The article historically contextualizes the 1991 Anita Hill testimony at the Senate confirmation hearings of current Justice Clarence Thomas, asking whether we’ve really learned from Hill’s […]
Prof. Nolan Wins Military History Book Prize from New York Historical Society
Professor Cathal Nolan has been awarded the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History (formerly the Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize), for The Allure of Battle: A History of How Wars Have Been Won and Lost (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017). The Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History at the New York Historical Society is a $50,000 prize co-sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman […]
Prof. Siegel Book Launch at Harvard University on Monday, 9/24
Professor Benjamin Siegel will speak at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University on Monday, September 24th from 4-6 pm. The event celebrates the release of Professor Siegel’s new book Hungry Nation: Food, Famine, and the Making of Modern India.
BU PhD Patricia Peknik Publishes First Book on French Louisiana Music
BU History Ph.D. Patricia Peknik, currently Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts at Berkeley College of Music, has published her first book, French Louisiana Music and Its Patrons: The Popularization and Transformation of a Regional Sound. Based on her 2015 dissertation, the book analyzes the remarkable odyssey of French-language music created by the descendants of Acadian and […]
PhD Candidate Agnes Burt Presents Paper at Women’s History Network Conference
Agnes Burt recently presented her paper, “‘Women will resent such an infringement’: The Married Women’s Property Acts and Tax Resistance in the Campaign for Women’s Suffrage,” at the 27th Annual Women’s History Network Conference, held at Portsmouth University, United Kingdom.
PhD Candidate Seth Anderson Wins Smithsonian Fellowship
BU History PhD candidate Seth Anderson was awarded a short term travel grant to conduct research at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. The Travel Research in Equity Collections grant is awarded to researchers “to come to the Museum and use the Archives Center’s 20,000 feet of archival materials. This 10-day award is intended […]