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Humanities

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University News

Video: BU’s Values Told Through Voices from History

December 12, 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

Photo: A Mother and her daughter view African Textiles in a display case.

Arts & Culture

Textiles Tell Stories Highlights BU Libraries African Textiles Collection

April 11, 2025

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Arts & Culture

Campus Artists—Tell Us About Your Work

March 5, 2025

Marina Dawn Wells (GRS’20,’24) examining a scrimshaw carving of a trans pirate, "Alwilda," that a whaleman copied out of a book by Charles Ellms, The Pirates Own Book (1837). Photo by Drew Furtado, New Bedford Whaling Museum

University News

Anonymous $1M Gift Bolsters American & New England Studies Program

April 22, 2024

Photo: A shot of a photo. The photo is a picture of a leg in a chair that is too small for them, showing how uncomfortable the fit is.

Arts & Culture

New Campus Exhibition Explores What It’s Like to Be “Fat on Campus”

February 20, 2024

Photo: An overhead shot of a few items on display at the Mary C. Beaudry Community Archaeology Center. An old glass medicine bottle is featured in the center of a black table.

Archaeology

Explore Cannonballs, Shipwrecks, and More at Boston’s Newly Renamed Mary C. Beaudry Community Archaeology Center

November 28, 2023

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Books

Wesley Wildman on the Challenges and Joys of Writing Fiction after Work for Academic Audiences

September 26, 2023

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Student Voices

Why the History of Enslavement on the Freedom Trail Matters

August 29, 2023

Photo: A Korean man, Jinwoo Chun, clasps his hands in front as he stands to pose for the photo. He wears his religious robes in front of a table with a white tablecloth in a cross on the background.

Theology

“God Didn’t Leave Me Alone”

August 7, 2023

Photo: A black and white photo of a Black man with a long, peppered beard. He has a nose piercing in his left nostril. He was a collard shirt, a sweater overtop, and a flat-brimmed hat.

Poetry

Award-Winning Poet John Murillo to Headline Spring 2023 Lowell Poetry Reading

March 29, 2023

Photo: Professor Amy Appleford leads an ENG 101 Encounters class at the Center for Computing & Data Science. A white woman with brown hair and wearing a black long sleeved top and pants, laughs and looks to the right as she holds a stack of handouts. She stands in front of a bright classroom as student sit in seats in front of her and turn to look at her.

Academics

Medieval Meets Contemporary in New English 101 Class

March 9, 2023

FILE - Emergency teams search for people in the rubble of a destroyed building in Adana, southern Turkey, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. The Turkish government has for years tempted fate by not enforcing modern construction codes at the same time it was allowing — and in some cases, encouraging — a real estate boom in earthquake-prone areas, according to experts in geology and engineering who repeatedly issued warnings. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Voices & Opinion

POV: The Earthquakes in Turkey and Syria and the Challenge of Disasters

February 10, 2023

Photo: Starting near the Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Regiment Memorial, Professor Andrew Robichaud leads his History of Boston: Community and Conflict students on a tour of downtown Boston’s environmental history on October 20. A white man wearing a puffy blue vest, jeans, and long-sleeved shirt points to the right as he holds a bright yellow folder. Various students look on.

Boston History

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

November 10, 2022

Collage: (right) Cover of the book "Magnolia Flower". (left) Portrait of Ibram X. Kendi, founding director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research.

Teaching History

Ibram X. Kendi Wants Children, and Teachers, to Challenge How History Is Taught

October 30, 2022

The many faces of Judith Kalaora (clockwise from top left): as Deborah Sampson, the first woman to enlist in the American military; as 19th-century philanthropist Madam Sarah Derby; as early suffragist Lucy Stone; as Rachel Walker Revere, wife of Paul Revere; as Dolley Madison, wife of James Madison, fourth US president; as Hollywood actor and inventor Hedy Lamarr; as teacher and astronaut Christa McAuliffe; and as Princess Diana. Photo of Sampon by Vincent Morreale; of Derby, Madison, and McAuliffe by Al Conant; of Stone by Chris Cavalier; of Revere by Claudio Gustafson; of Hedy Lamarr by Chris Beasley; of Princess Diana by Greg Anthony

Theater

Judith Kalaora Brings History To Life

September 23, 2022

Poet laureate Robert Pinsky speaks to a room full of educators as part of a National Endowment of the Humanities-funded summer institute July 13 at COM. The program will run from July 10-22 and will focus on adolescent friendships as viewed through popular media such as books, TV, and film. Photo by Cydney Scott for Boston University Photography

Education

Teachers Become Students as BU Hosts Institute to Address Adolescent Well-Being

July 26, 2022

Photo of the white supremacist group, The Patriot Front marching thru the city of Boston on July 2, 2022. They walk by the statue in Boston Public Gardens holding Betsy-Ross-style flags. Their faces are covered by white-gray neck gaiters, tan baseball caps, khaki pants and blue polos. Many wear sunglasses so their face is completely hidden. There's about two dozen pictured.

History & Politics

Was the Patriot Front March in Boston a Sign of the New KKK?

July 7, 2022

Arts & Culture

Pulitzer Prize Winner and Former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith Headlines Robert Lowell Memorial Poetry Reading Tuesday

April 11, 2022

Photo of Martha Schick (MDiv’22) lighting a candle in Gordon Chapel. A white woman with short hair wearing a mask lights a candle with a long match in a darkened chapel

Religion

Photo Essay: What My Faith Means to Me

March 23, 2022

Photo Essay: What My Faith Means to Me