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Prof. Thornton Acts as Historical Advisor to Roots Remake

Professor of History and African American Studies John Thornton wrote a piece for BU Today regarding his role as a historical advisor to the upcoming remake of the 1977 TV miniseries Roots and imagining the historical context of the story.

Katie Moore and Aaron Hiltner Win Shotwell Dissertation Fellowships

Congratulations to the two History Department PhD Candidates, Katie Moore and Aaron Hiltner, who were each just awarded the Robert Shotwell Fellowship for their dissertations!   ‘A Just and Honest Valuation’: Money and Value in Colonial America, 1690-1750 by Katie Moore “argues that colonists mediated economic change within existing moral and social frameworks by re-imagining value, a concept […]

Student Commencement Speaker Debra Marcus Highlights Prof. Jarvis’s Course in Ceremony

The Department of History was given a nod in the 2016 All-University Commencement Ceremony on Sunday, May 15th.  Student Speaker Debra Marcus highlighted History Department Lecturer Eric Jarvis’s course on Music and Civil Rights as one of her most formative experiences during her time at BU. Marcus remarked, “BU transformed me by offering a class on Music […]

Prof. Rabinovitch Writes Book Review for Haaretz

Professor Simon Rabinovitch today published a review of Captivity by Hungarian writer György Spiró in Haaretz. The article, titled “The Ultimate Jewish Road Novel, Set in First-century Rome, Judea and Beyond,” can be read here.

Prof. Haberkern Gives Advice to Graduating Students in BU Today

The History Department’s own Professor Phillip Haberkern offers advice to the Class of 2016 alongside other BU faculty and staff in a video posted by BU Today. On the experience of completing a BU degree, Professor Haberkern remarks, “What’s incredible about BU in a lot of ways is it brings people in from all over the […]

Amy Noel Ellison Defends Dissertation, Accepts Fellowship at American Philosophical Society

On Monday, April 4, Amy Noel Ellison successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, entitled “‘Reverse of Fortune’: The Invasion of Canada and the Coming of American Independence, 1774-1776.” In the autumn of 1775, American revolutionaries invaded Canada in the hope of winning a fourteenth colony for the cause, dealing a fatal blow to the British war […]

History Student Caroline Lord Awarded Boren Scholarship for International Study

History major and former History Department office assistant Caroline Lord has been awarded a David L. Boren Scholarship for International Study. The Boren Scholarship allows US undergraduate students to study less commonly taught languages in the world regions critical to US interests and underrepresented in study abroad programs. To read a feature on Lord, visit […]