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History

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Student Voices

Why the History of Enslavement on the Freedom Trail Matters

August 29, 2023

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Climate Change

What Can the Bible Teach Us about Fighting Climate Change?

August 15, 2023

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Politics

How the AR-15 Divided a Nation

August 9, 2023

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Holocaust Museum

BU Wiesel Center Director: Boston’s Proposed Holocaust Museum Would Educate and Inform about the Legacy of Genocide

June 28, 2023

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Voices & Opinion

Where Does Trump’s Case Fall against Past Presidential Scandals Involving Sex, Power, Profit?

June 13, 2023

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JUNETEENTH

Celebrate Juneteenth on and off Campus with These Events

June 12, 2023

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Books

Ibram Kendi, Joel Christian Gill Team up for New Graphic Version of Kendi’s Stamped From the Beginning

June 5, 2023

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Commencement

Celebrating 150 Years of BU Commencements in Photos

May 16, 2023

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Arts & Culture

BU Historian Kathryn Lamontagne on King Charles’ Coronation

March 27, 2023

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WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH

11 Books to Read in Celebration of Women’s History Month

February 28, 2023

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Voices & Opinion

POV: Lincoln Struggled with Depression. What We Can Learn from It Today

February 27, 2023

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Journalism & Media

Rescuing Lost Stories

February 7, 2023

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Christianity

What’s behind Boom of Christianity in China?

February 2, 2023

PA REVIEW OF THE YEAR 2022 File photo dated 10/09/22 - The Princess of Wales, the Prince of Wales and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex walk to meet members of the public at Windsor Castle in Berkshire following the death of Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday. Issue date: Tuesday December 20, 2022. (Press Association via AP Images)

Arts & Culture

Prince Harry’s Spare Is a Gold Mine for Historians, CGS Lecturer Says

January 17, 2023

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2022 in Review

Best of The Brink 2022: 10 Amazing Discoveries and Mind-Blowing Facts

December 12, 2022

Lydia Moland (UNI’97,’97, GRS’02) says abolitionist Lydia Maria Child was “a devastatingly good arguer…. She was a very, very powerful thinker and writer.” Photo by James Johnson

Alumni

Profiling a 19th-Century Woman’s “Radical American Life”

November 14, 2022

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Boston History

Community, Conflict, and Change: CAS Course Shines New Light on Boston’s Past

November 10, 2022

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Tributes

An “Unconventional Genius”

November 2, 2022

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In the City

Street Smarts: Seaport District

October 26, 2022

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Academics

BU Launches New Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Major

October 24, 2022

BU Launches New Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Major