Silber Interviewed on Confederate Monuments for CommonWealth Magazine Podcast
After providing analysis in print media on the relevancy of the Civil War in current events over the last couple weeks, Professor Nina Silber also sat down for an interview with “The Codcast,” the podcast of Commonwealth Magazine, a publication in affiliation with MassINC, a Massachusetts-based think tank. In an episode titled, “Tipping point for Confederate statues,” Silber […]
Prof. Silber Discusses Relevancy of Civil War in WaPo, Boston Globe, and Journal of the Civil War Era
Professor of American History Nina Silber offers reflections, in three separate venues, on the different ways the Civil War has been in the news in the last few weeks. For the August 17th entry of The Washington Post’s running blog, “Made by History,” Professor Silber wrote an op-ed titled “Worshiping the Confederacy is about white […]
BU History PhD David Atkinson Gives Interview on US History of White Supremacy
Associate Professor of History at Purdue University David Atkinson was interviewed in the Lafayette Journal & Courier on the history of white supremacy movements in the United States, especially in the context of the violent actions by neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Virginia over the past weekend. The interview is available at the Journal & Courier’s website here.
Prof. Schulman Publishes Op-Ed in Washington Post Feature ‘Made by History’
Professor Bruce Schulman contributed an op-ed, titled “The United States needs more bureaucracy, not less,” to The Washington Post’s feature “Made by History,” in which historians are asked to provide perspective to current events. BU PhD Kathryn Brownell also acts as Managing Editor for the feature. Professor Schulman’s article can be found at The Washington Post’s website here.
Tracing Family History: Eugenio Menegon in Druento (Piedmont, Italy)
As part of his research on the Europeans in Beijing in the 18th century, Professor Eugenio Menegon visited this summer the municipality of Druento, near Turin (part of the Dukedom of Savoy in the 18th century). This was the native town of the Meinardi (or Meynardi) family. The Discalced Augustinian Sigismondo Meinardi da San Nicola (1713-1767) […]
BU PhD Anne Blaschke Publishes Op-Ed in the Washington Post
Visiting Assistant Professor of History at College of the Holy Cross and BU History PhD Anne Blaschke published an op-ed on Friday, July 7th in the Washington Post on the possible snub of the Golden State Warriors by President Trump and contextualizing the history of White House-athlete relationships since the Kennedy administration. The article, titled “Trump […]
History PhD Zach Fredman Wins Dissertation Prize from SHAFR
BU History Ph.D. Zach Fredman has won the second major award for his dissertation, “From Allies to Occupiers: Living with the U.S. Military in Wartime China,” the Betty M. Unterberger Prize from the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations. The prize is awarded biannually for the best dissertation on any topic in United States […]
Two History Faculty Win 2017-18 BUCH Research Fellowships
As featured in BU Today, two History professors have been awarded research fellowships for the 2017-2018 academic year by the Boston University Center for the Humanities. Associate Professor Sarah Phillips is one of several Jeffrey Henderson Senior Research Fellows for the forthcoming year, during which Professor Phillips will work on her book, The Price of Plenty: From Farm to Food Politics […]
The Washington Post Launches “Made by History”
The Washington Post has launched a new feature—Made By History—in which a group of historians (including BU Prof. Bruce Schulman) offer historical perspective on the news. BU Ph.D. Kathryn Brownell serves as Managing Editor for the feature. For more info, click here.
Shorten and Schulman Present on 1920s at HOTCUS Conference in Dublin
PhD Candidate Dave Shorten and Professor Bruce Schulman participated in a session on “Rethinking the 1920s” at the annual meeting of HOTCUS (Historians of the Twentieth Century United States) at University College Dublin. Shorten presented a paper entitled, “The Legacy of Anti-League Arguments: The League of Nations and 1920s ‘Isolationism’ in Historical Memory,” while Schulman […]