Reuters runs Prof Schulman’s Op-Ed “Why it’s still worth being president of the fractious United States”
On the syllabus for HI 283 (“The Modern American presidency”), Professor Bruce Schulman listed as the final week’s topic “The 21st Century Presidency: Is the United States Ungovernable?’ When he wrote the syllabus, he assumed that he would answer that question in the affirmative. But when he sat down to plan the class, it occurred […]
Chronicle Review article on presidential studies features volume co-edited by BU historian Bruce Schulman
link to full text: http://chronicle.com/article/Historians-Re-Enter/234337?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elq=b44171f871354a76b9e9a4a57e0d99c9&elqCampaignId=2003&elqaid=7128&elqat=1&elqTrackId=9601b36532584014abf4095c6c241a40
Grad students Chris Conz and Lilly Havstad have African field research highlighted in BU Research Magazine
On Dec. 3, BU History grad students Chris Conz and Lilly Havstad had their recent African field research highlighted in the BU Research magazine for a piece called “Into Africa.” Link to full text: http://www.bu.edu/research/articles/africa/
4 History Honors Seminar Students Awarded CAS Travel Grants for Thesis Research
Congratulations to History Honors seminar students: Katie Angelica, Julia Katzman, Jeremy Gray, and Ben Gagne-Maynard. All four have won travel grants from CAS to conduct thesis research, with Julia and Jeremy winning awards to support travel to Israel and England, respectively.
Prof Schulman interviewed for “Why America Can’t Separate Religion and Politics” article in Arts & Sciences Newsletter
link to full text: http://www.bu.edu/cas/magazine/fall15/america/?utm_source=artsscience&utm_medium=broadcastemail&utm_content=relipoli_txt&utm_campaign=as_fall15
Prof. Johnson interviewed in BUToday article about the 11/13 Paris attacks
link to full-text: http://www.bu.edu/today/2015/paris-perspective/
11/18 – IHI presents “Nuclear Proliferation: A Global Conversation”
Attendance is limited to 50 persons, please RSVP via the following link to ensure a place: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/global-conversations-conversation-on-proliferation-tickets-19480298096
7th edition of Prof. Capper’s “American Intellectual Tradition” two-volume series Released
Twenty-six years ago Oxford University Press published the first edition of Charles Capper and David Hollinger’s American Intellectual Tradition (AIT). Since then both volumes have sold over 75,000 copies and have been regularly assigned in courses throughout the U.S. and the U.K., on the Continent, and most recently in Asia. As the now standard textbook […]
Zach Fredman awarded the Spring 2016 Shotwell Fellowship
Graduate student Zach Fredman was awarded the spring 2016 Shotwell Fellowship for his dissertation, “From Allies to Occupiers: Living with the U.S. Military in Wartime China, 1941–1945.” Drawing from new and overlooked sources in China, Taiwan, Myanmar, Great Britain, and the United States, his project explores the tensions that emerged when large-scale U.S. forces were […]
Prof Menegon presents papers focusing on European diplomatic missions to Beijing in the mid-18th century
Professor Eugenio Menegon is on leave at the School for Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, in Princeton NJ this semester, where he is working on his current book project on “Europeans in Late Imperial Beijing.” As part of his research, he recently presented two papers, focusing on European diplomatic missions to Beijing in the […]