Congratulations to Dr. Colin McConarty! Who successfully defended his dissertation "A Final Solution of the Negro Question: Reconciliation, the New Navy & the End of Reconstruction in America.”
Are you looking for something that you as an individual can to do to help others right now?
The Bystander Intervention program works to prevent sexual violence at BC and are asking others to take a ...
Still looking for electives? Want to know why the Catholic Church and the Country are both divided these days? Take Prof. Murphy’s "Slavery and Nativism,” HIST 2501 #lowerdivelective #historyisthebest...
Still looking for courses? Want to have your mind blown? Answer me this: What do Dr. Seuss and Full Metal Jacket have to do with each other? Take the spectacular Prof. Oh’s “Enemy Aliens, Alien Friend...
In a thesis titled "Death and Dying in the Margins of Rome,” Kevin Deng asks "What can graves tell us about the lives of underrepresented groups?”
#historyofrome #edgesofempire #identityatthemargins...
Arturo Balaguer is working on a thesis titled "Leonardo Da Vinci and the Anatomy of the Human Soul"
His questions? Is the soul a material or an immaterial entity? What can da Vinci teach us about t...
Ryan Leach is working on a thesis tentatively titled "'The War Isn't Over Yet': Public Opinion in the Early Cold War, 1945-1947.”
One of his big questions is how did domestic issues distract the Ame...
A blast from the past: Sean McShane (BC’19) investigated Catholicism in 1960s America in a thesis titled “A Faithful Remnant: Fr. Gommar De Pauw and the Catholic Traditionalist Movement." Focusing on ...
Next up: Molly Bankert’s thesis explores early 20th c. blueswomen and their sexuality.
Molly’s big question: How did blueswomen use their music to navigate their sexuality?
Molly's research focuses...
First up: Was the American Revolution in the South a civil war or was it something more complex?
William Brummette is researching this question in his thesis, currently titled:
“Southern Catastrophe...
History Majors—(especially juniors!) Get in touch if you are thinking about writing a thesis. It is the most challenging and rewarding thing you can do at BC.
We will be featuring ongoing honors the...
Some cheer for the new year and silver linings from the old: The dynamic duo Profs. Ross and Sajdi taught “Odysseys in the Western and Islamic Traditions, HIST4122.” They wanted to reward the extraord...
Must read on our very own heathercoxrichardson in a nytimes feature. Prof. Heather Cox Richardson’s readers have left the thunderstorm of social media to read her “Letters from an American” because s...
In case you need another reason to take a class with the completely spectacular Prof. Heather Cox-Richardson. She was named a notable work of nonfiction by washingtonpost. historyisthebestmajor histor...
Please join me in congratulating the editorial staff of Oracle, the Boston College History Club student journal. Led by the incomparable Sadie Blanco as Editor in Chief, the outstanding editorial staf...