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Photo: Scripts, photos, and other items from the Robert Redford archive collection at Boston University’s Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center

Arts & Culture

Robert Redford’s Mysterious, and Little-Known, Tie to Boston University

September 19, 2025

Photo: Jennifer Gunter King, associate university librarian, goes through papers that were donated by Dorothy Gilliam, the president's mother, who was a trailblazing journalist.

Journalism & Media

Groundbreaking Journalist Dorothy Gilliam Gives BU a Gift of History

February 21, 2025

Photo: Griffin Post stands at a podium and looks to the audience. A white man wearing a black long-sleeved collared shirt stands in front of a podium where a silver laptop rests as he smiles and looks to the audience. To his right, a large screen shows a photo of a snowy mountain scene.

Gotlieb Center

How BU Helped Modern-Day Explorers Find a Lost Treasure on a Remote Glacier

March 29, 2023

Photo: Journalism student, Sahika Aydinol (COM'24) is shown posing against a stack of books in a library. A young white woman wearing a beige dress and faux leather jacket stands with hands behind back in a library/archive.

Journalism & Media

Rescuing Lost Stories

February 7, 2023

Photo: Angela Lansbury presented with an honorary degree by Jon Westling (Hon.’03), then BU president ad interim, at the University’s May 20,1990, Commencement. Lansbury stands on stage wearing a red ceremonial graduation gown as Westling stands behind a podium to her right in a black set of robes.

Film & TV

Angela Lansbury’s Surprising Boston University Ties

October 13, 2022

White House photographer Pete Souza (COM'76) signs copies of his book, Obama: An Intimate Portrait.

University News

Nine Fun, Free Things to Do at Alumni Weekend 2019

September 20, 2019

Vita Paladino in her office

Staff

The Collector Steps Down

June 27, 2019

The book cover of Robin by Dave Itzkoff

Gotlieb

Robin Williams Revealed, with Big Help from BU Archives

April 30, 2019

Portrait of Oscar winning actor Michael Douglas sitting in the Boston University George Sherman Union auditorium.

Awards

Oscar-Winner Michael Douglas on Acting, Choosing Roles, and Netflix

November 29, 2018

A photo of Peter Fiedler speaking at a podium

University News

Peter Fiedler Ends Quarter-Century BU Career

November 28, 2018

Melvin B. Miller examines the exhibit

Gotlieb

Gotlieb Archival Research Center Celebrates the Bay State Banner

October 11, 2018

Cover of MLK's personal copy of the Montgomery Bus Boycott comic book guide

Gotlieb

MLK on Display at BU’s Gotlieb Center

April 5, 2018

A protester holds a poster with a picture of Martin Luther King. The sign says, "I have the same dream."

In the City

BU Honors Martin Luther King, Jr. (GRS’55, Hon.’59)

April 2, 2018

Vita Paladino, Director and Principal Investigator of the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University, poses for a photo in her office.

Staff

Keeper of the Treasures

February 8, 2018

Elie Wiesel

History

Mugar Exhibits Gotlieb Center’s Elie Wiesel Archive

January 26, 2016

Florence Nightingale Digitization Project

Gotlieb

Making the Work of Florence Nightingale Available

January 11, 2016

Internationally renowned soprano Deborah Voigt will speak at the GSU Metcalf Ballroom tonight as part of the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center Friends Speaker Series.

Opera

Opera Singer Deborah Voigt Speaks at GSU Tonight

September 29, 2015

Internationally known conductor Marin Alsop, musical director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

Arts & Culture

Marin Alsop at Podium, Minus Her Baton

March 24, 2015

Boston University the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, HGARC, Ardent for Some Desperate Glory: Remembering the First World War

Gotlieb

Remembering the First World War

November 6, 2014

Ethel Rosenberg, Julius Rosenberg, Edward Snowden, famous whistle blowers, government whistle blowers, famous American whistle blowers

History

Spies, Whistleblowers, and the Case That Changed America

October 7, 2014

Spies, Whistleblowers, and the Case That Changed America