BU Cuba Alternative Spring Break Course – Experiencing Cuba: History, Politics, and Culture

Guided by Professors Linda Heywood and John Thornton (African American Studies & History), Professor Ana Maria Reyes (CAS assistant professor of Latin American art), and Dr. Amanda Thornton (infectious diseases fellow at Boston Medical Center), thirteen BU students participated in this journey.   During this unforgettable experience, the students were immersed in Cuba’s history and […]

Professor Chernock’s Opinion Piece Appears in Newsweek

BU History professor Arianne Chernock, had her opinion piece “Why do Americans Fawn Over British Royalty?” published by Newsweek over the weekend.   Link to full text article: http://www.newsweek.com/why-do-americans-fawn-over-british-royalty-315671  

New faculty book – FAITHFUL REPUBLIC: Religion and Politics in Modern America

Based on the 2012 Religion and Politics conference hosted by BU, UPenn Press has just released Faithful Republic: Religion and politics in modern America, edited by BU History professor Bruce Schulman, Andrew Preston and Julian Zelizer. “…Faithful Republic explores the dynamics between religion and politics in the United States from the early twentieth century to the present. Rather […]

Professor Blower wins ACLS Burkhardt Fellowship

Please join us in congratulating Professor Brooke Blower, winner of the American Council of Learned Society’s (ACLS) Burkhardt Fellowship for her project Hidden Fronts: New American Histories of World War II. More information about this year’s Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellows is available here.

4/9: “Howard Zinn in Japan: Civil Rights, the Vietnam War, and Solidarity in Hiroshima”

Starts: 5:00 pm on Thursday, April 9, 2015 Location: 745 Commonwealth Avenue STH B19 Sushi Reception to Follow Ann Sherif, Professor, East Asian Studies Program, Oberlin College, author of Japan’s Cold War: Media, Literature, and the Law (Columbia University Press), lives in Cleveland Ohio. Her current research focuses on independent and regional publishers and literature […]

3/19-20 – BU History hosts 10th Annual International American Political History Conference, “Media and Politics in Modern US History”

This coming week, March 19-20, 2015, the BU History Department hosts the Tenth Annual International American Political History Conference  Co-sponsored by BU, Cambridge University, and Princeton, this year’s conference investigates the theme of “Media and Politics in Modern US History.” You can find the conference schedule at http://sites.bu.edu/aphi/conference/

3/19 EVENT: The Ethics of What We Eat: Changing Food Systems in the US and China

Concerned about the corporate takeover of our food systems? Join us for a screening of “What’s For Dinner?” (27 min.), Jian Yi’s 2013 documentary about he climate, public health, ethical, and human impacts of rising meat consumption in China. Given that every fifth person in the world is Chinese, what the Chinese eat and how […]

Tuesday 3/3 Sawyer series lecture: John McNeill, THE ADVENT OF THE ANTHROPOCENE

Please join us at Boston University on Tuesday March 3 for a lecture in our continuing John E. Sawyer series, “Reinterpreting the Twentieth Century.” JOHN McNEILL (Georgetown) will deliver the lecture: “The Advent of the Anthropocene: Was That the Big Story of the Twentieth Century?” TUESDAY, MARCH 3 at 6:00pm Location: B.U.’s Photonics Center, 9th Floor […]