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Phillips Publishes New Book

Co-written with Shame Hamilton, Professor Sarah Phillips’ newly published book The Kitchen Debate and Cold War Consumer Politics is available from Bedford/St. Martin’s and Amazon. This innovative treatment of the Kitchen Debate reveals the event not only as a symbol of U.S. -Soviet military and diplomatic rivalry but as a battle over living standards that profoundly […]

BU grad student Zach Fredman has article published in Diplomatic History

Graduate student Zach Fredman’s article, “The Specter of an Expansionist China: Kennedy Administration Perceptions of Chinese Intentions in Vietnam”  was recently published in the January 2014 edition of Diplomatic History.  The piece started off as Fredman’s paper for the “Historian’s Craft” course offered at BU, and can be accessed here.    

Schulman Edits New Book–Making the American Century

Oxford University press has just published Making the American Century, a collection of essays on the political culture of 20th Century America, edited by Professor Bruce Schulman.  “Are the American people a nation,” Senator Albert Beveridge asked in 1898, or are they “an aggregation of localities?” Beveridge had little doubt that the new century would […]

Professor Schulman visits High School AP History Classes in Oakland, CA

Last week, BU Professor Bruce Schulman made a special visit to the Bishop O’Dowd High School in Oakland, California.  Professor Schulman, currently on a year-long fellowship at Stanford University, met with the students in Patti Harjehausen’s AP history classes to discuss the Progressive Era, and used primary sources to demonstrate how historians work.  

Professor Blower publishes article in the American Historical Review

  BU Professor Brooke Blower’s article, “New York City’s Spanish Shipping Agents and the Practice of State Power in the Atlantic Borderlands of World War II,” was published in the February 2014 edition of the American Historical Review.  For a link to the article and abstract, please click here.

History graduate featured in Research at Boston University Magazine

Recent History graduate, Hannah Walters (’13) was highlighted in an article appearing in Research at Boston University Magazine, written by Susan Seligson.  A Q&A piece, the article discusses Walters’ investigation into the life and times of artist and filmmaker, Sergei Parajanov.  Walters’ work will soon be appearing as a chapter titled “Cultural Autonomy and Political […]

Grads with a Liberal Arts Degree Win Out in the Long-run.

In Allie Grasgreen’s January 22 article, “Liberal Arts Grads Win Long-term,” appearing in Inside Higher Ed, she combats the notion that those majoring in the humanities are doomed to unemployment.  Grasgreen’s article cites the results of a study conducted by the AAC&U and the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems, examining long-term career path and […]