Professor Nina Silber to deliver Huntington Library and Gettysburg lectures
Professor Nina Silber accepted invitations to deliver the annual Nevins Lecture at the Huntington Library, on April 18, 2012, and the the 53rd Fortenbaugh Lecture in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to be delivered on November 19, 2014, commemorating the 151st anniversary of the Gettysburg Address.
August issue of Modern Intellectual History published
The August, 2011 issue of Modern Intellectual History has been published by Cambridge University Press. The journal is housed at Boston University and is co-edited by Professor Charles Capper. The Table of Contents is below in PDF format. MIH 8.2 Cover
Professor Emeritus Joseph Boskin releases new book
Syracuse University Press has released a new book by Boston University Professor Emeritus Joseph Boskin. The book is entitled Corporal Boskin’s COLD Cold War and is the story of Boskin’s own experiences in Greenland during the Korean War. From the description by Syracuse University Press: At the height of the Korean War in 1952, a […]
Boston Globe publishes editorial by Brooke Blower
The Boston Globe recently published an editorial by Boston University Assistant Professor of History Brooke Blower. The editorial, entitled “A Paris invented for the American imagination,” considers images of Paris in two recent works: Woody Allen’s new film, Midnight in Paris, and David McCullough’s new book, The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris. The editorial can be found […]
Brendan McConville quoted in the Boston Globe
Boston University Professor of History Brendan McConville was quoted in a recent article in the Boston Globe. McConville responded to political commentator Sarah Palin’s recent comments about Paul Revere. Link to article at Boston.com
Joe Crespino’s GPHC Keynote available at C-SPAN
Professor Joe Crespino of Emory University gave the keynote speech at this year’s Graduate Political History Conference at BU. His talk–on Strom Thurmond and Political Biography–can be viewed at C-SPAN’s site: C-SPAN
Professor Bruce Schulman Featured on C-SPAN
C-SPAN recently visited Boston University and recorded a lecture by Bruce Schulman about Jimmy Carter and the 1970s. Description: With gas prices reaching upwards of $4.00 per gallon, Boston University history professor Bruce Schulman teaches a course about another energy crisis nearly forty years ago. Then, during the 1970s, President Jimmy Carter struggled with a […]
Summer Term courses announced
The schedule of history courses for Summer Term 2011 has been finalized and is now available online. Besides the popular sequence in the history of international relations and other history lecture courses, the department is offering two colloquia, one on World War II and another on modern terrorism.
American Political History Seminar, 01/26/11
January 26, 2011: American Political History Seminar, 12 noon, HIS 504, Stephen Whitfield (Brandeis University) will speak on “Nixon and the Jews.”
Eugenio Menegon a leader in planning of Asia leisure project
Anthroopology Professor Rob Weller, together with Catherine Yeh, an associate professor of Chinese, and Eugenio Menegon, an associate professor of Chinese history and world history, both in the College of Arts & Sciences, has launched a three-year project titled “Leisure and Social Change: The Transcultural Flow of Concepts, Institutions and Practices across Asia.” Fifteen faculty […]