Boston University

History

Photo of Kyna Hamill sitting on a chair

Holiday

“Jingle Bells” History Takes Surprising Turn

December 8, 2016

Attack on ships in Pearl Harbor

History

POV: 75 Years Later, Attack on Pearl Harbor Offers Lessons

December 7, 2016

Vintage old worn American flag

University News

CAS Historian’s View of American Politics, circa 2016

November 7, 2016

Images of the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia hang in the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, Phnom Penh

University News

CAS Launches New Minor in Holocaust and Genocide Studies

November 2, 2016

Envelope sent to the Cleveland Indians for good luck

Nickerson Field

BU Sends Cleveland Indians a Good Luck Charm from Nickerson Field

October 28, 2016

Angela Jackson, Associate Dean, Boston University School of Medicine

University News

Office Artifacts: Angela Jackson

October 19, 2016

American Horror Story Season 6 Poster

Alumni

The Mystery Behind This Season’s American Horror Story

September 21, 2016

Portrait of Frederick Douglass

museums

Picturing Frederick Douglass

July 25, 2016

North End historian and author Dom Capossela talks about the North End neighborhood to students in Boston University Metropolitan College summer course about history and culture of the North End

Classes

MET Class Asks: Is the North End Still Italian?

July 12, 2016

Michael Zank, Dorothy Kelly, Sanjay Krishnan

Literature

BUCH Fellowships Awarded to Nine Faculty

June 14, 2016

El Jebel Shriners in Robes

Academics

Class Unveils “Secrets” of Secret Societies

March 31, 2016

Cheryl Boots

History

Freedom Songs

February 24, 2016

Sandro Galea

Faculty

Four Decades Forward: SPH Celebrates 40th Anniversary

February 4, 2016

COM professor and author of 13 Hours, Mitch Zuckoff, answers questions following the screening on Tuesday, January 26, 2016.

Arts & Culture

COM Screens New Benghazi Film 13 Hours

January 28, 2016

Elie Wiesel

Students

Mugar Exhibits Gotlieb Center’s Elie Wiesel Archive

January 26, 2016

Florence Nightingale Digitization Project

internet

Making the Work of Florence Nightingale Available

January 11, 2016

Into Africa: Three Fulbright Scholars, three countries, three perspectives on a changing region

Business & Law

Into Africa

December 7, 2015

Jay Atkinson

Faculty

Revenge Makes the First Colonial Heroine

December 7, 2015

A man places a candle in front of the Carillon cafe in Paris Saturday Nov. 14, 2015, a day after over 120 people were killed in a series of shooting and explosions.

Science & Technology

Paris Perspective

November 15, 2015

Sean D. Kearns, commanding officer of the USS Constitution historic naval frigate

Boston

Constitutional Amendments

September 24, 2015

Constitutional Amendments