Graduate Student Twagira Wins DDRA Fellowship
History Ph.D. student Ben Twagira has just won a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Fellowship to conduct research in Uganda next year. Please join us in congratulating him on this achievement!
Journal of the Historical Society Publishes Article by Grad Student Matt Pressman
The recent discovery of film footage of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his wheelchair has revived the myth of a gentleman’s agreement between press and president to keep Roosevelt’s disability a secret. The Journal of the Historical Society recently published graduate student Matt Pressman’s article setting the record straight. A condensed version of the article […]
Professor Chernock on “Royal Baby Fever” in BU Today and the NY Times
BU Today spoke with Professor Arianne Chernock about what the birth of the new monarch means for England and why Americans seem to care so much. See the full article here. See the New York Times articles here and here.
Grad Student Matt Pressman Exposes Myth of FDR’s Secret Disability in Time.com
The recent discovery of film footage of President Franklin D. roosevelt in his wheelchair has revived the myth of a gentleman’s agreement between press and president to keep Roosevelt’s disability a secret. On the Time magazine website, grad student Matt pressman sets the record straight. To access his article, visit http://ti.me/1aMJU4D
Professor Blower’s Commencement Address Published in AHA’s Summer Edition of Perspectives
You can see the full text here: http://bit.ly/1aqt7Rk
Searching for the Meaning of “Russian” with Professor Simon Rabinovitch
Professor Simon Rabinovitch just published an article in The Marginalia Review of Books on the meaning of “Russian” in Putin’s Russia. You can read the full article here: http://bit.ly/14Ne2pj
Schulman Takes to the Airwaves and Internet on Political Scandals and Lingering Effects of Economic Downturn
On June 18, Reuters published Professor Bruce Schulman’s op-ed , “Wiener: As American as Political Redemption,” an attempt to place the recent political comebacks of disgraced politicians like Mark Sanford and Anthony Wiener in historical perspective. To access the piece, click http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/06/17/weiner-as-american-as-political-redemption/ Schulman also appeared on WBUR, as part of a June 14, 2013 report on […]
Department Co-Sponsors 8th Annual International Conference in American Political History
At lunch on Saturday, Sean Wilentz, the Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor of History at Princeton, led conference-goers on a walking tour of Princeton’s cemetery. The graveyard contains the remains of Grover Cleveland, Aaron Burr, Jonathan Edwards, and George Kennan, among other luminaries. Pictured here graduate students Daniel Burge, Matt Pressman, and Dave Shorten. The […]
History Department Wins Mellon Foundation Grant for Sawyer Seminar on “Reinterpreting Twentieth Century”
Led by Professors Brooke Blower, Jonathan Zatlin, Andrew Bacevich, and Bruce Schulman, the History Department has won a prestigious grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support a John E. Sawyer Seminar during academic year 2014-15. The grant will support a year-long program, “Reinterpreting the Twentieth Century,” that will convene a series of eight […]
China and Europe in the Early Modern Period: Summer News from Professor Menegon
University of Bern – Bern, Switzerland At the invitation of Professor Christian Windler, Director of the Section on Early Modern History at the Historical Institute of the University of Bern (Switzerland), Professor Eugenio Menegon presented to doctoral students and faculty his recent research on the daily life and political networking of the Europeans in late […]