Boston University

History

The Pardee School of Global Studies at 121 Bay State Road

Faculty

You Could Win Big in New Bay State Road Challenge

April 3, 2019

Portrait of James Uden, Associate Professor of Classical Studies at the Boston University College of Arts & Sciences

Accolades

Drawing Modern Inspiration from Ancient Texts

April 1, 2019

a monument showing the line between the union and confederacy

Politics

BU Historian Answers: Are We Headed for Another Civil War?

March 27, 2019

Japanese soldiers playing the American game of baseball supposedly in China during the war

International Relations

Long before Pearl Harbor, Japan Tried to Get America on Its Side

February 22, 2019

black and white portrait of Henry Worsley in winter gear

Literature

Exploring Endurance

February 19, 2019

Chelsea Bray poses for a portrait with cotton milling machines in the historical Boott Cotton Mill in Lowell, MA said to be an inspiration for A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Literature

A Christmas Carol: Made in Massachusetts?

December 18, 2018

a missile test in north korea

Politics

Nuclear Governance Class Offers Context to Current Headlines

December 17, 2018

Video still from the 1964 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer tv special showing Santa Claus talking to Rudolph with his blinking red nose.

Film & TV

POV: Rudolph the Sad, Bullied, Verbally Abused Red-Nosed Reindeer

December 7, 2018

Film & TV

A Disaster at Sea and a 70-Year-Old Secret Drive Tonight’s Cinemathèque Film

December 7, 2018

Historian Nina Silber

History

The Civil War History You Don’t Know

November 30, 2018

Bruce Schulman and Chris Daly teach a class on media and politics.

University News

Trump and the Press: We’ve Been Here Before

October 31, 2018

Image of the painting HMS Erebus and Terror in the Antarctic by John Wilson Carmichael

Humanities

A Fascination with Disaster

August 15, 2018

Diversity

Unnnh! Owww! Good God, Y’all! It’s Time for Funk Class!

August 7, 2018

The Massachusetts State House

Boston

Take a Tour of the Massachusetts State House

July 16, 2018

Student Discounts

MBTA

10 Summer Student Discounts You’ll Love

June 15, 2018

Things-to-do

Date Night at Otis House Tonight

June 6, 2018

Robert F Kennedy holds two fingers up in a victory sign as he talks to campaign workers at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, prior to his assassination.

Voices & Opinion

POV: Remembering RFK, 50 Years Later

June 5, 2018

Hundreds of members of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts will march from Faneuil Hall to the Boston Common and on to the Old South Church. Photo courtesy of the AHAC

History

June Day Parade, Largest Such Event on East Coast, Is a Massachusetts Tradition

June 4, 2018

Still image from the documentary film Paper Lanterns directed by Max Esposito, about 12 Vietnam POWs.

Alumni

Bringing the Untold Story of 12 World War II American POWs to Light

May 29, 2018

The USS Constitution Museum offers a special Memorial Day program honoring veterans

Holiday

Boston Celebrates Memorial Day Weekend

May 25, 2018

Boston Celebrates Memorial Day Weekend