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History

WWII History

Finding the Names of BU’s World War II Casualties Lost to Time

March 2, 2025

Photo: Sara Zewde a woman with long hair stands in a brightly lit room wearing an elegant and intricately designed outfit with black and white colors

Design

Reimagining Public Spaces

February 14, 2025

Photo: A collage-style image with a swirling colorful background featuring black and white photos of the Beatles and author Debbie Gendler

Books

An Alum’s New Memoir Recounts Six Decades of Beatlemania

December 3, 2024

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Journalism & Media

Podcast Looks at a Forgotten Chapter of the Civil Rights Struggle

September 18, 2024

Photo: Abdulrazak Gurnah , winner of the 2021 Nobel prize in literature, speaks with Professor Muhammad Zaman (left) and Professor Carrie Preston as part of a two-day BU visit under the auspices of the Center on Forced Displacement and Kilachand at Morse Auditorium. Three people sit in formal attire and appear to be discussing an important topic around a small table

Forced Displacement

Fruitful First Year for Center on Forced Displacement

November 16, 2023

Photo: A composite image of three black and white photos with a white boarder and a tan background. On the right, two individuals walking on BU's campus in 1973. On the right, two photos, one layered on top of the other. The top photo features four men marching for MLK day in 1973. The bottom photo features the Business class of BU in 1973.

Alumni

Black Alums Celebrate 50th Reunion during Alumni Weekend

September 21, 2023

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Politics

How the AR-15 Divided a Nation

August 9, 2023

Photo: King Charles III looks to his right.An older white man wearing a traditional black military outfit and hat all brimming with gold chains, a row of various medals on the lapel, and various other gold and red embellishments, looks to his right.

Arts & Culture

BU Historian Kathryn Lamontagne on King Charles’ Coronation

March 27, 2023

Lydia Moland (UNI’97,’97, GRS’02) says abolitionist Lydia Maria Child was “a devastatingly good arguer…. She was a very, very powerful thinker and writer.” Photo by James Johnson

Alumni

Profiling a 19th-Century Woman’s “Radical American Life”

November 14, 2022

Black and white photo of Anthony Barrand. A white man wearing a white tee shirt that reads "Boston University Orientation 1996" tucked into slacks holds up in one hand a large, wooden jewish star. He stands on a BU lawn on campus.

Tributes

An “Unconventional Genius”

November 2, 2022

Photo of Lynae Vanee Bogues sitting in a dark blue velvet chair in front of small, potted palm trees with a stack of books by Black authors sitting in a neat pile on a white side table next to her. A young black woman with shoulder length faux locs and a multicolored blouse and bright yellow skirt sits with fingers crossed in front of her chin as she poses seriously for the camera.

Arts & Culture

Lynae Vanee Bogues Sheds Light on Often Overlooked Black History in Her IGTV Series Parking Lot Pimpin’

April 11, 2022

Photo of MET alum Leon Wilson, President and Chief Executive Officer at the Museum of African American History (MAAH) sitting in a pew at the meeting house on November 18, 2021. Wilson is an older Black man with short, graying hair and large black-rimmed glasses, who smiles, wears a suit and rests his right arm on the wooden, painted pews.

Alumni

Museum of African American History President Leon Wilson is Preserving a Vital Part of Boston’s Past

January 31, 2022

Composite image of Jay Winuk and his brother Glenn Winuk. At left, photo of Jay Winuk, at an event that passed out meals to people in need in 2019, speaking into a microphone. He wears a grayish blue t-shirt that reads “Tomorrow together.” At right, photo of a printed photo of Glenn Winuk in a blue dress uniform. He wears large circular glasses.

Alumni

His Brother’s Death on 9/11 Spurred COM Alum to Make Sure We Never Forget

September 8, 2021

Photo of the headstones of Rebecca Lee Crumpler (MED'1864), reading "the first Black woman to earn a medical degree in the US." and her husband Arthuer Crumpler. The headstones are at the Fairview Cemetery in Hyde Park. Bright green grass grows around the headstones.

Historic Alum

New York Times Honors BU Alum Rebecca Lee Crumpler with Obituary—126 Years after Her Death

July 20, 2021

A photo of the crime scene at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Alumni

Stephen Kurkjian Featured in This Is a Robbery Netflix Series on Gardner Museum Heist

April 13, 2021

Photo of Retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Enoch Woodhouse in a blue suit jacket, baseball cap, and red neck-tie with his hands extended towards a crowd of chief petty officer selects aboard USS Constitution, who wear camo and tan baseball caps.

History

One of the Last Surviving Tuskegee Airmen on Being Part of Famous All-Black Air Squadron

February 25, 2021

Composite image of a hand holding an icecream cone and a portrait on Hannah Spiegelman. On the left, a hand with golden nail polish holds an ice cream cone. The ice cream cone is a light brown color with chunks graham cracker and candy, named “Goonies Never Say Die.” On the right, a photo of Hannah, a young woman with round glasses, icicle-blue curly hair, wearing a pink shirt with ice cream cones and the phrase “I scream for reproductive rights.” Hannah holds a dripping ice cream cone and smiles wide, as if mid laugh. A flower bush is seen blurred behind her.

Food History

Alum’s Blog Combines Twin Passions: History and Ice Cream

February 17, 2021

Photo of the headstones of Rebecca Lee Crumpler (MED'1864), reading "the first Black woman to earn a medical degree in the US." and her husband Arthuer Crumpler. The headstones are at the Fairview Cemetery in Hyde Park. Bright green grass grows around the headstones.

Historic Alumni

Trailblazing BU Alum Gets a Gravestone 125 Years after Her Death

August 7, 2020

A Boston University football player runs the ball in the 1969 Pasadena Bowl game.

Football

50 Years Ago, the BU Football Team Played Its Only Bowl Game

December 5, 2019

Joe bagley holding a Chinese lantern artifact found in an archaeological dig of Boston's Chinatown neighborhood.

Archaeology

The Alum Digging Up Chinatown’s Archaeological Treasures

October 9, 2019

The Alum Digging Up Chinatown’s Archaeological Treasures