Speaking of historians in the trenches––last Thursday, Karima Moyer-Nocchi, Professor at the University of Siena, who gave a lecture on “The History of Pasta and Italian Identity,” held a pasta-making...
Where to put the awesome new books by faculty on our increasingly cramped shelves of faculty publications? #goodproblems Congratulations to Prof. Virginia Reinburg and Prof. Martin Summers for these l...
Here they come! The mighty BC class of 2023! Come talk to us if you are thinking of majoring, minoring, or double majoring in History. We are hosting a lunch party 21 Oct at 12 pm. Current majors an...
So true!! History majors DO get more dates! #historyisthebestmajor #bc360
Potential history majors!? #bc360
Here they come bc360.
This is happening right now! Come by and sign up to come to our History Major Lunch party!! 21 October 2019 at noon in the history department. #historyisthebestmajor
Field report from Rachael Young and Madison Cortez, two awesome BC PhD students: "Madison and I were both doing research in Dublin and Belfast this summer. We're both working on projects regarding Nor...
Field report from BC history major Kevin Deng: “I've just completed a season at the University of Michigan's field school in the ruins of Gabii, near Rome. The Gabii Project is a large excavation work...
What can you do with a history major? A field report from Max Baker (BC’19): “I am the media monitor and a researcher for Sen. Klobuchar at her campaign headquarters in Minneapolis (using my Lexis Nex...
Field report from Colin Phelan who is in India on an ASG, researching the creation of Jim Corbett National Park during British Colonial rule. More specifically, He is investigating the construction of...
Field report from Prof. Virginia Reinburg: I was in Hamburg (Germany) for a conference on early modern history, and saw many small-scale memorials to Hamburg's Jewish residents on city sidewalks. This...
Field report from Chrissy Habian: I’m in Mount Rainier National Park doing work for my Advanced Study Grant (ASG). Through a study of John Muir's writings and my own attempts at wilderness journalism,...
Hanging out with my man, Jeremy Bentham at the special collections in UCL, a university he helped to start. (Its really him, btw. Had himself embalmed for the purpose. Of course, a wax sculptor had t...
Field report from Doug Girardot:
I’m interning at the Massachusetts Historical Society, where I’m helping to transcribe and make web-searchable John Quincy Adams’s diary. I’m also working on a major W...