Humanities / History
Forgetful Remembrance
February 17, 2020
Burns Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies Guy Beiner explores how history is shaped by collective memory and social forgetting.
February 17, 2020
Burns Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies Guy Beiner explores how history is shaped by collective memory and social forgetting.
October 07, 2018
'The Cambridge History of Ireland' is deemed the most comprehensive, authoritative account of the island nation ever attempted.
April 05, 2018
Historian Jason Knirck is the first American to serve as the Burns Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies.
March 05, 2018
Historian Dana Sajdi will study prose topographies of Syria's capital as a fellow at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute.
January 14, 2018
BBC News explores the origins and evolution of cotton with BC historian Prasannan Parthasarathi.
March 26, 2022
BC Professor of History Heather Cox Richardson talks about her White House interview with President Joe Biden.
April 08, 2017
A catastrophic event in medieval China holds lessons for our relationship with the environment today, says historian Ling Zhang.
January 11, 2017
False prophecy played a similar role in medieval times, writes BC's Eric Weiskott.
July 08, 2016
In an Irish Times op-ed, History's Rob Savage examines BBC reporting during The Troubles.
March 26, 2022
BC Professor of History Heather Cox Richardson talks about her White House interview with President Joe Biden.
June 15, 2017
BC historian Heather Cox Richardson co-hosts a new WBUR podcast on politics and history.
January 10, 2017
Associate Professor of History Devin Pendas weighs in on NECN's 'The Take.'
November 09, 2016
Listen as presidential historian Patrick Maney outlines two significant advantages Donald Trump will bring to office.
February 02, 2016
Professor of History Heather Cox Richardson is consultant, commentator for PBS 'American Experience' on Garfield assassination.
December 04, 2017
The latest student-curated exhibit in the 'Making History Public' series offers an unusual look back at immigrant life in °¬¿ÉÖ±²¥.