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History

An illustration of the first Thanksgiving

History

What That Turkey Is All About

November 23, 2020

Photo of a group of students gathered in the MFA in 2018. Behind the students are two large works of art in ornate frames. A semi -circle of students listen as one student presents their work of choice.

Arts & Culture

Visiting Ancient Worlds Virtually through Student-Made Videos

November 20, 2020

Composite image of three book covers, from left: Cook, Taste, Learn by Guy Crosby, Recipes and Remembrances of Fair Dillard by Zella Palmer, and Halal Food by Febe Armanios and Bogac Ergene.

Food Studies

MET’s Pépin Lecture Series in Food Studies & Gastronomy Goes Virtual

November 12, 2020

A photo of water buffalo grazing

Wetlands

When Wildlife, Politics, and Morals Collide

November 5, 2020

Portrait of Eugenio Menegon, College of Arts & Sciences associate professor of Chinese, wearing a bright blue button down and black leather jacket. He smiles and a fuzzy background with a building and fall trees are seen behind him.

History

BU Spearheads Massive Database of Centuries of Culture-Sharing between the West and China

November 4, 2020

A photo of Donald Trump, Joe Biden, and Kristen Welker on the debate stage

Politics

Trump, Biden Clash on Immigration, COVID … and Abe Lincoln

October 23, 2020

Artistic rendering of The Embrace MLK monument in Boston by Hank Willis Thomas with MASS Design Group

Voices & Opinion

POV: It’s Time to Change How We Choose Monuments and Statues

October 16, 2020

A photo of Paula Austin standing outside a house

Books

A History of Racial Discrimination and the Fight for Change

October 12, 2020

A portrait photo of Christine Woodbury Hamel

Performance Arts

Why Policing the Way Voices Sound Has to Stop

September 17, 2020

Photos of Richard Nixon and Donald Trump sitting at the desk in the Oval Office

Politics

The Trump Tapes vs the Nixon Tapes

September 10, 2020

Photo of the headstones of Rebecca Lee Crumpler (MED'1864), reading "the first Black woman to earn a medical degree in the US." and her husband Arthuer Crumpler. The headstones are at the Fairview Cemetery in Hyde Park. Bright green grass grows around the headstones.

Historic Alumni

Trailblazing BU Alum Gets a Gravestone 125 Years after Her Death

August 7, 2020

President Donald Trump speaks at Mount Rushmore National Monument Friday, July 3, 2020, in Keystone, S.D. Trump stands at the podium and the faces of Mt. Rushmore are seen behind him.

Voices & Opinion

POV: Trump’s Call for a National Garden of American Heroes Misses the Point

August 4, 2020

The Emancipation Group statue in Boston's Park Square. The statue shows Abraham Lincoln towering over a crouched and half-naked formerly enslaved man, Archer Alexander.

Arts & Culture

How a BU Art History Scholar Helped Boston Rethink Its Emancipation Memorial

July 21, 2020

Portait of Ibram X. Kendi in a gray suit with his hands on a desk in front of him. Kendi is a leading historian and author of the bestselling 'How to be an Antiracist.'

Accolades

Ibram X. Kendi Awarded BU’s Andrew W. Mellon Professorship in the Humanities

July 1, 2020

A photo of Andrew David working from his Watertown home on his laptop teaching his class on the history of the American presidency.

Academics

Trump and Nixon: Separated at Birth?

June 30, 2020

Photo of Boston protests in June 2020, screened over a photo of a sunrise of the Boston city skyline. Protesters hold signs such as "No Justice" and "BLM"

Voices & Opinion

2020: The Great American Trauma

June 5, 2020

A photo of fishing boats out for skrei cod in the arctic sea

Sustainable Oceans

How the Past Can Guide Our Stewardship of Tomorrow’s Sustainable Oceans

May 28, 2020

Weekender

The Weekender: May 7 to 10

May 7, 2020

A photo of John Thornton and Linda Heywood

Research Accolades

Two BU Scholars of African American History Elected to AAAS

April 29, 2020

Black and white photograph of the Federal Street Post Office in the wake of the Great Boston Fire of 1872. A billow of smoke rises from the top of an old fire truck, a crowd of men stand close by.

Campus History

From the Great Boston Fire to the Depression to Coronavirus: A Short History of BU’s Biggest Campus Disruptions

April 24, 2020

From the Great Boston Fire to the Depression to Coronavirus: A Short History of BU’s Biggest Campus Disruptions