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The current issue of Diplomacy and Statecraft (September 2015) contains an essay by David Mayers, “Humanity in 1948: The Genocide Convention and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.”

By approving prohibitions on genocide and embracing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the United Nations in 1948 sustained a theory premised on the centrality of people—both in their collective and individual capacities—that enjoyed primacy over the claims of the sovereign state. This affirmation of human rights dovetailed with the UN’s earlier endorsement of […]

Prof Ferleger and grad student Matthew Lavallee co-author “Taylor’s World Revisted” for Business and Economic History Online

“Taylor’s World Revisited” Abstract: Textbooks often provide readers with first impressions or introductions. Therefore, the portrayal of Frederick Winslow Taylor in management textbooks might explain why many hold Taylor and his ideas in low regard. Rather than recognizing Taylor as one of the first thinkers to study work in and of itself, the textbooks in […]

SCHULMAN PUBLISHES TRIBUTE TO CARL N. DEGLER

In the latest (August 2015 issue) of the Journal of Southern History , Professor Bruce Schulman published a remembrance of Carl N. Degler, the pioneering historian of slavery and race relations, and women and the family, who passed away last December at the age of 93.  A Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar, founding member of the National Organization for Women, and […]

Recapturing the Oval Office: New Historical Approaches to the Presidency (co-edited by Prof. Schulman) Published by Cornell University Press

Cornell University press has just published Recapturing the Oval Office: New Historical Approaches to the Presidency, a collection of articles co-edited by Professor Bruce Schulman and University of Virginia Professor Brian Balogh.  The anthology not only includes an essay by Schulman, but also contributions from BU Political Scientist Cathie Jo Martin and BU History Ph.D.,  and […]