Boston University

History

Great Fire of Smyrna

History

A Failed Minister Who Saved 250,000 Christians

May 6, 2015

BU’s first Mellon New Directions fellow, Wiebke Denecke, will travel across East Asia researching Classical Chinese, the region’s forgotten lingua franca. Photo by Tim Gray

Literature

Reclaiming a Common Language

April 28, 2015

Smithsonian National Museum of American History

Religion

Were We a Nation under God from the Start?

April 24, 2015

Classes

A Broader Look at Asia

April 2, 2015

Boston University BU, School of Management SMG, centennial, College of Business Administration

History

The Birth of a College

March 31, 2015

Classic cars on a street in Cuba

History

CAS Course Brings Students to Cuba

March 19, 2015

Queen Anne by James A. Winn

Humanities

Queen Anne Reconsidered

February 6, 2015

BU Pov, Boston University, BU, Point of View

Voices & Opinion

POV: An Emerging Movement Reminds Us of the Promise of MLK

January 16, 2015

Business

Final Sale

December 3, 2014

World War I, world war history

History

POV: The Legacy of World War I

November 11, 2014

Remembering the Fall of the Berlin Wall, BU Arts Initiative, Boston University, This Aint California, Marten Persiel

Event Preview

Commemorating the Fall of the Berlin Wall

November 6, 2014

Arts

Travels with Titian

October 28, 2014

Kings Chapel, Boston, Tremont Street, Halloween tours, crypts

In the City

Boston History, Underground

October 27, 2014

Boston University BU, Sawyer Seminar series, history, intellectual crisis, humanities majors

History

Finding New Ways to Connect to the Past

October 14, 2014

civil rights act, martin luther king, lyndon b johnson

History

POV: The Civil Rights Act Turns 50

October 7, 2014

Ethel Rosenberg, Julius Rosenberg, Edward Snowden, famous whistle blowers, government whistle blowers, famous American whistle blowers

Politics

Spies, Whistleblowers, and the Case That Changed America

October 7, 2014

Boston University BU, College of Arts and Science CAS, Colosseum, Rome history, Italy

History

Ancient Rome: Asian-Like Cuisine and Archaic Gynecological Advice

October 6, 2014

Roberto Mighty, multimedia artist, artist in residence, Mount Auburn cemetary, Cambridge Massachusetts

Alumni

Making Art among the Dead

October 3, 2014

Dugout Cafe, Commonwealth Avenue, Boston

History

The Little Dive with a Long History

September 30, 2014

Boston University BU, Andrew Bacevich, Middle East, Massive Open Online Courses MOOC, edX, BUx

Digital Learning

MOOC Probes a War You’ve Never Heard Of

September 23, 2014

MOOC Probes a War You’ve Never Heard Of