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Professor Brooke Blower’s American Pop Culture Class Explores Dating and Mating from the Victorian Era to the Present

Since 2006, Boston University History Professor, Brooke Blower, has been teaching American Pop Culture, a class surveying changes in cultural assumptions from the Victorian Era to the present.  The course examines many different topics related to everyday life, including: mating, homes, work and gender.  In Rich Barlow’s recent BU Today article, “Pop Culture Class Explores Changes in […]

Graduate Student Christine Axen Awarded 2014 Shotwell Fellowship

Graduate student Christine Axen has been awarded the 2014 Shotwell Fellowship, for her dissertation “Episcopal Avignon: A Sacral Landscape in the Thirteenth-Century Midi,” which explores the formative role of medieval bishops in shaping their urban communities in thirteenth century Avignon, France.  Please join us in congratulating Christine on this wonderful achievement!

Schulman and Brownell’s Alternative Perspective on JFK

    Boston University Professor Bruce J. Schulman, along with Purdue University Professor and former BU PhD student, Katie Brownell, had an article posted on Reuters’ Great Debate opinion blog today.  The piece, “JFK’s legacy: The party’s over,” provides an alternative  perspective on the impact of America’s 35th president, and his role in ushering in “the […]

Professor Chernock wins Henderson Fellowship

  Professor Arianne Chernock has been awarded the Henderson Senior Faculty Fellowship from the Boston University Center for the Humanities.  Please join us in congratulating Dr. Chernock on this wonderful achievement!

Fredman Wins Dissertation Fellowship

Graduate student Zach Fredman received the W. Stull Holt Dissertation Fellowship from The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.  Please join us in congratulating Zach on this accomplishment!

Undergraduate Megan McCauley Wins NACBS Essay Award

Megan McCauley has won the North American Conference on British Studies’ Undergraduate Essay Prize for her essay, “Round the Empire in a Day’: Exhibiting Empire at Wembley, 1924”. She is the second History Major to win this prize in the past two years. Please join us in congratulating her on this fine achievement!

History Department Mixer and Course Confidential

Sponsored by the Undergraduate History Association, Come enjoy good conversation and food with your favorite history professors and other history students! Before you set your schedule, come find out about the courses being offered in the Spring. This is an opportunity to find out more than just the course description will tell you!  Thurs November […]

Schulman at Minnesota History Center

On Saturday, October 12, Professor Bruce Schulman opened the annual History Forum at the Minnesota History Center in St. Paul.  Speaking to a sell-out crowd in excess of  500 people, Schulman’s presentation, “Are We A Nation?” The Emergence of Modern America, 1896-1929,” kicked off a series of lectures around the theme, “The Vast Possibilities: America […]

October Department Newsletter Published

The October edition of the BU History Department newsletter–The Presence of the Past–has just appeared.  You can access the newsletter here: http://bit.ly/1gL3kr3   Want More? Follow us on Twitter: http://bit.ly/yLjBug Like us on Facebook:  http://on.fb.me/wDHriC Subscribe to our RSS Feed: http://bit.ly/z6xblY