Boston University

History

The observatory dome

Astronomy

The Secret History of BU’s PRB Observatory and the Telescope It Was Built to House

September 30, 2019

Offred, the heroine in The Handmaids Tale stands in the Arlington Station

Things-to-do

Take a Tour of 10 Locales from The Handmaid’s Tale

July 30, 2019

central-square

Local

To Do Today: Central Square Activism Walking Tour

July 25, 2019

The sign that hangs outside the African Meeting House

In the City

Retracing Boston’s African American History

July 23, 2019

University News

BU Cited for Role in Boston’s LGBT History

June 28, 2019

History

POV: Taking the Measure of the Stonewall Uprising 50 Years Later

June 27, 2019

History

Should Doctors Learn from Nazi Medical Research on Holocaust Victims?

June 20, 2019

An edition of Anne Frank's diary

History

Natick’s World War II Museum Commemorates 75th Anniversary of D-Day

June 6, 2019

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 in the annual June Day Parade

In the City

To Do Today: June Day Military Parade

June 3, 2019

A shot of the Boston harbor

History

10 Free Things to Do with Family and Friends This Weekend

May 14, 2019

Three Boston University graduating students jump on the BU Seal symbol on Marsh Plaza on Commencement Sunday.

University News

The Myths and Legends behind the BU Seal

May 9, 2019

the twin towers smoking as seen from the street a few blocks away

History

Mitchell Zuckoff’s Fall and Rise Recounts the Story of 9/11

May 2, 2019

tacos from Orninoco

Food & Dining

The Weekender April 4 to 7

April 3, 2019

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

a monument showing the line between the union and confederacy

History

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

March 27, 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

University News

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

Television

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

December 7, 2018

Historian Nina Silber

Arts & Culture

The Civil War History You Don’t Know

November 30, 2018

The Civil War History You Don’t Know