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Ph.D. Candidate Joshua Castillo Gives Lecture on Congolese History in Northampton

Fourth-year Ph.D. Student Joshua Castillo gave a public lecture in Northampton, MA on Sunday, October 27th regarding “Congo’s Recent History and Contemporary Situation” as part of a seminar on the Democratic Republic of the Congo organized by the Pioneer Valley Interfaith Refugee Action Group. The arrival of over sixty Congolese refugees to the Northampton area […]

Prof. Menegon to Give Lecture at Brown University Next Wednesday

Next Wednesday, November 13th, Professor Eugenio Menegon will give a lecture at Brown University’s Center for the Study of the Early Modern World. For more information on the public talk, which is titled “The Matriarch, the Duchess, the Queen, and the Countess. Aristocratic Patronesses of the Chinese Catholic Mission and their Role in Early Modern […]

Prof. Chernock Publishes Article on Mary Wollstonecraft

Professor Arianne Chernock’s article on “The Radicalism of Queenship: Mary Wollstonecraft and Alternative Sources of the Rights of Women” has just been published in a special volume of the Romantic Circles Praxis Series. The volume including Professor Chernock’s article is available to read online 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, […]