Blumenthal and Schulman lead “Exploring the Other Boston”–freshmen walking tour
On Saturday, October 1 Doctoral Student Seth Blumenthal and Professor Bruce Schulman led a group of CAS Freshmen on a historic walking tour of Boston. Boston is more than the Freedom Trail, so Blumenthal and Schulman led students through Boston’s diverse neighborhoods and explored the many layers of history they have accumulated over 400 years. […]
BU to host Global 1970s Conference
On November 10-11, an international gathering of scholars will gather for the first Global 1970s conference at Boston University. Part of a multi-year collaboration between Boston University, the University of Münster (Germany), and the University of Utrecht, the first of three planned conferences, “The Radical Decade in Global Perspective” will explore the experience of the […]
COM Professor Chris Daly reflects on “Drafts of History”
During Fall 2010, Professors Bruce Schulman and Chris Daly (COM Journalism) and team taught a course called “Drafts of History: Journalism and Historical Revision.” The course explored several episodes from U.S. history, examining how the “first drafts” produced by journalists compared to subsequent drafts written by historians. In so doing, we analyzed not only how […]
Graduate student Scott Marr defends dissertation
Scott Marr defended his dissertation, “Urban Encounters and the Religious Divide: Catholic-Protestant Coexistence in Saumur, France, 1589-1665.” As historians of early modern Europe shifted their gaze from episodes of religious violence to expressions of religious tolerance, the mechanics of coexistence in everyday life—how men and women of different confessional allegiances managed to live and worship […]
Graduate student David Mislin publishes article
Graduate student’s David Mislin’s article “‘Never Mind the Dead Men’: The Damnation of Theron Ware and the Salvation of American Protestantism” has been accepted for publication in The Journal of the Historical Society. It is scheduled to appear in the journal’s December issue.
Professor Andrew Bacevich publishes two articles on the modern American military
Professor Andrew Bacevich published “Whose Army?” in the summer issue of Daedalus and “Tailors to the Emperor” in the May-June issue of New Left Review.
Professor Jon Roberts publishes two articles on science and religion
Professor Jon Roberts recently published two articles. The first “Science and Religion,” in Wrestling with Nature: From Omens to Science, ed. Peter Harrison, et al. (University of Chicago Press), examined the changing meaning of the terms “science” and “religion” and the history of the trope “science and religion” as it manifested itself in the rhetoric […]
Professor Jeffrey Rubin receives Mellon Grant
Professor Jeffrey Rubin was awarded a Mellon/Latin American Studies Association Grant for his ongoing project, “Religion, Social Movements, and Progressive Reform in Latin America.” The project, which he co-directs with sociologist David Smilde (University of Georgia) and anthropologist Benjamin Junge (SUNY New Paltz), examines the ways in which religious beliefs, practices, and institutions affect processes […]
Professor Simon Payaslian publishes new book
BU History Professor released a new book, The Political Economy of Human Rights in Armenia: Authoritarianism and Democracy in a Former Soviet Republic (I.B.Tauris, 2011. Pp. 417). Book description: “Since its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, the Republic of Armenia has experienced a reversal from a brief period of democratization to a Soviet-style authoritarian […]
Professor Richard Landes releases new book on millennialism
Professor Richard Landes’ new book, Heaven on Earth: The Varieties of the Millennial Experience appeared from Oxford University Press. This long-awaited study shows that many events typically regarded as secular–including the French Revolution, Marxism, Bolshevism, Nazism-not only contain key millennialist elements, but follow the apocalyptic curve of enthusiastic launch, disappointment and (often catastrophic) re-entry into “normal […]