Call for Papers: 2019 Undergraduate History Association Conference
The Fourth Annual Undergraduate Academic History Conference will take place on Sunday, April 7, 2019. Students will present conference papers of their own historical interests on group panels, followed by commentary and a Q&A segment. Presentations will be no longer than 12 minutes. The Undergraduate History Association at Boston University welcomes submissions for its annual […]
Prof. Silber Publishes New Book, Featured in BU Today
Professor Nina Silber’s new book This War Ain’t Over: Fighting the Civil War in New Deal America was published last month on University of North Carolina Press. The book is an examination of the contentious debates among Americans- black and white, northern and southern, New Dealers and conservatives – over how to remember the American Civil […]
BU History Student Anna Stroinski Wins NACBS Undergraduate Essay Contest
BU Senior History major Anna Stroinski is one of eight recipients of the North American Conference on British Studies’ 2018 Undergraduate Essay Contest. Professor Arianne Chernock nominated Stroinski’s paper “God Save the Alternative Jubilee: The Sex Pistols and Meaningful Monarchical Engagement,” written in Professor Chernock’s course HI 434: Monarchy in Modern Britain. The award was announced at the […]
Empresses of China: History Seminar on Modern China Visits Exhibition in Salem
A fabulous new exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem was the destination for a fieldtrip of the History 487 Seminar “The Making of Modern China” (instructor Prof. Eugenio Menegon) on October 16, 2018, supported by a generous grant of the CAS Academic Enhancement Fund. “Empresses of China’s Forbidden City” features portraits, calligraphies, precious […]
From Urban History to Digital Humanities: Fall Conferences for Professor Menegon
This Fall 2018 Professor Eugenio Menegon has so far presented at four academic conferences on different topics. He first tackled the urban history of Beijing in the Qing period in relation to European establishments in the city, with a paper entitled “Invisible City: European Missionaries and Catholic Community in Qing Beijing,” presented at the Conference “Global […]
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 […]