Recent BU Ph.D. David Mislin releases new book “Saving Faith: Making Religious Pluralism an American Value at the Dawn of the Secular Age
In Saving Faith, David Mislin chronicles the transformative historical moment when Americans began to reimagine their nation as one strengthened by the diverse faiths of its peoples. Between 1875 and 1925, liberal Protestant leaders abandoned religious exclusivism and leveraged their considerable cultural influence to push others to do the same. This reorientation came about as an […]
11/6 – Conversations in History: Chad Wellmon presents “Googling Before Google: A Brief History of the Search”
APHI 8th Annual Graduate Student Conference, “Region, Space, and Place in American History” – Call for Papers
Grad student Lilly Havstad Recipient of Dorothy Rosenberg Phi Beta Kappa Annual Meeting Graduate Fellowship
Congratulations to Lilly Havstad, one of three recipients of this year’s Dorothy Rosenberg Phi Beta Kappa Annual Meeting Graduate Fellowship. The fellowship program was established to help defray the travel costs incurred by graduate students presenting their research at the American Historical Association’s Annual Meeting (this year to be held in Atlanta, GA – Jan. […]
10/22 – “The Elements of Presidential Success — And Failure,” a talk by Robert Dallek
11/2 – Professor Jim McCann presents 2015 University Lecture “Sacred Water: Historical Ecology, Power, and the Soul of the Blue Nile”
10/20 – The Department of History and The Latin American Studies Program Present: “Barrio Rising: Urban Popular Politics and the Making of Modern Venezuela,” a lecture by Alejandro Velasco
10/27/15 – “Where Thought Belongs: Peter Abelard and Forms of Biotopy” a lecture by Babette Hellemans – co-sponsored by Dept. of History
Dr. Ashley Farmer Cited in NY Times Article “The Panthers’ Revolutionary Feminism”
Dr. Ashley Farmer, who is set to join the BU History faculty next academic year, had her forthcoming book What You Got Is a Revolution cited in a New York Times article discussing feminism within the Black Panther Party: “In her forthcoming book, “What You’ve Got Is a Revolution,” the historian Ashley Farmer describes how […]
APHI co-sponsors “Seeing Beyond the Partisan Divide” symposium Oct 2-3
The Miller Center, University of Virginia Page-Barbour Interdisciplinary Initiatives Committee, and the American Political History Institute are pleased to announce “Seeing Beyond the Partisan Divide, ” scheduled for October 2-3 at UVA’s Miller Center. for more event info, please see the following links: http://sites.bu.edu/aphi/2015/09/15/seeing-beyond-the-partisan-divide-symposium-scheduled-for-oct-2-3/ http://millercenter.org/events/upcoming