Boston University

History

Portrait of terrorism expert Jessica Stern, a research professor at the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies

Social Sciences

Why Terrorists Kill

April 13, 2017

Lauren Whitley, senior curator of textile and fashion arts for the MFA, shows students a mid-18th-century English brocaded silk dress, once worn by Lydia Catherine, Duchess of Chandos.

Arts & Culture

One Class, One Day: Threading History

April 10, 2017

More than 100 headstones were vandalized at the Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia in Feb. 2017.

History

What History Reveals about Surges in Anti-Semitism and Anti-Immigrant Sentiments

April 7, 2017

Economics professor and numismatist Pankaj Tandon holds a coin from ancient India under a magnifying glass

History

Economics Professor—and Noted Numismatist

March 6, 2017

Joseph Rezek

Politics

“Hail to the Chief” Is No Simple Fanfare

March 1, 2017

Portrait of Sybil Haydel Morial, author of the book Witness to Change: From Jim Crow to Political Empowerment

Alumni

Making History

February 14, 2017

Ashley Farmer, assistant professor of history and African American studies at the Boston University College of Arts and Sciences

History

Female Activists Behind the Black Power Movement

February 13, 2017

wolf's skull

Biology

A BU Museum You’ve Never Heard Of

January 18, 2017

Randall Keith Horton

Boston

MLK Day Commemoration to Feature Duke Ellington Music

January 13, 2017

Photo of Kyna Hamill sitting on a chair

Religion

“Jingle Bells” History Takes Surprising Turn

December 8, 2016

Attack on ships in Pearl Harbor

Voices & Opinion

POV: 75 Years Later, Attack on Pearl Harbor Offers Lessons

December 7, 2016

Vintage old worn American flag

University News

CAS Historian’s View of American Politics, circa 2016

November 7, 2016

Images of the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia hang in the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, Phnom Penh

University News

CAS Launches New Minor in Holocaust and Genocide Studies

November 2, 2016

Envelope sent to the Cleveland Indians for good luck

Baseball

BU Sends Cleveland Indians a Good Luck Charm from Nickerson Field

October 28, 2016

Angela Jackson, Associate Dean, Boston University School of Medicine

CAMED

Office Artifacts: Angela Jackson

October 19, 2016

American Horror Story Season 6 Poster

History

The Mystery Behind This Season’s American Horror Story

September 21, 2016

9/11 Memorial Museum Head Curator Jan Seidler Ramirez standing in front of the Virgil Quote exhibit at the 9/11 Memorial Museum

Arts & Culture

Honoring Life

September 9, 2016

Statue of Sir Isaac Newton

STEM

Why Scientists Need History Lessons

August 29, 2016

Portrait of Frederick Douglass

Exhibitions

Picturing Frederick Douglass

July 25, 2016

North End historian and author Dom Capossela talks about the North End neighborhood to students in Boston University Metropolitan College summer course about history and culture of the North End

University News

MET Class Asks: Is the North End Still Italian?

July 12, 2016

MET Class Asks: Is the North End Still Italian?

One Class, One Day

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