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History

the ghost of Eugene O'Neill in Shelton Hall (now known as Kilachand Hall) at Boston University

BU History

The Ghost of Kilachand Hall

October 27, 2026

Photo: Weathered gravestones in a green cemetery with red-brick city buildings and fire escapes behind them.

Arts & Culture

Alum Brings to Life the Stories of Long-Forgotten Bostonians

October 23, 2026

Sisters Monica (left) and Ximena Martinez are happy to travel to Massachusetts from their home in Florida for their Framingham Heart Study checkups. Here, they pose with the sculpture The Fabric of Framingham by Anna Ryan outside study headquarters. Photo courtesy Monica Martinez

Public Health

Framingham Heart Study Research Volunteers Change the World

October 20, 2026

Photo: Front page of Boston Globe from September 11 2001

25th Anniversary of 9/11

Mitchell Zuckoff Wrote Boston Globe Stories about 9/11

September 10, 2026

Humanities

BU PhD Student Highlights Overlooked Revolutionary War Voices Through Internship at the Boston Athenaeum

July 31, 2026

Photo: A damaged steel remnant from the facade of the North Tower of the World Trade Center

Humanities

A CAS Alum Helps Preserve the History of September 11

July 30, 2026

Arts & Culture

Digging for Remnants of the Battle of Bunker Hill

June 22, 2026

Photo: A close-up on Papaver somniferum, the opium poppy

Opioids

How the Legal Opium Market Shaped Global Trade—and Led to an Opioid Crisis

April 29, 2026

Photo: An underwater shot of diver Jennifer Sellitti illuminates an anchor from the USS San Diego, a US Navy armored cruiser that sank off the coast of Long Island in 1918

Alumni

The Shipwreck Hunter: After the Diving Death of Her Partner, BU Alum Jennifer Sellitti Carries on with Their Shared Passion

April 3, 2026

History

Five Phone Calls That Changed History

March 4, 2026

Faculty

Alexander Graham Bell: The BU Years

March 2, 2026

Photo: Leland Clarke (Wheelock'75) at his home in Randolph, Mass., with some of the approximately 1,800 pieces of ephemera he’s collected that chronicle Roxbury’s history.

Books

CFA Professor’s Love Letter to Roxbury

February 23, 2026

Photo: Dr. Martin Luther King speaks March 25, 1967 at the Chicago Peace March.

MLK Day

BU and Boston’s Annual MLK Day Observance to Take Inspiration from King’s 1967 Speech

January 15, 2026

Photo: A collage of four images: Top left, two hands holding shreds of micro plastics, bottom left an image shot from the moon, top right a stock image of burning candles, and bottom right, a figure statue head

Research

Best of The Brink 2025: A Selection of BU’s 10 Most-Read, Liked, and Shared Science and Research Stories

December 16, 2025

Photo: A woman at a podium sings an operatic.

Opera

Recording of Long-Lost Opera Rediscovered by BU Researcher Now Available to Stream and Buy

September 11, 2025

PHoto: Rock crystal amulets on display at a museum

Books

A Debut Novel Set During the Black Plague

August 8, 2025

Photo: An older man with round black glasses frames and a button up shirt smiles for a portrait photo.

Faculty

A Historian Whose April Fools’ Day Origin Tale Took on a Life of Its Own

August 8, 2025

JUNETEENTH

Celebrating Juneteenth Around Boston

June 16, 2025

Photo: A girl in a leather jacket smiling in front of textiles

Art History

From Wedding Attire to Living Room Curtains: A BU Scholar Is Unraveling the History of Brocade Weaving in Morocco

May 31, 2025

Photo: An engraved illustration of George Washington crossing the River Delaware during the American Revolutionary War

REVOLUTIONARY WAR QUIZ

Who Won a BU Swag Bag by Correctly Answering Our Revolutionary War Quiz?

April 17, 2025

Who Won a BU Swag Bag by Correctly Answering Our Revolutionary War Quiz?