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History

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History

Keeping Seeds Alive If the World as We Know It Ends

February 10, 2025

Research

Best of The Brink 2024: 10 Inspiring Inventions and Discoveries—All from BU Researchers

December 13, 2024

Undergraduate Research

For BU Undergrad, Meal Leftovers Aren’t Trash—They’re Glimpses into the Past

October 24, 2024

Professorship Awards

Career Development Professorships Awarded to Five BU Researchers

September 26, 2024

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American and New England Studies

What a Southern Plantation’s Paper Trail Can Reveal About the Lasting Legacies of Slavery

September 5, 2024

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Music

Liberation through Rhythm: BU Ethnomusicologist Studies History and Present of African Beats

August 20, 2024

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Bioarchaeology

The Histories of Enslaved People Were Written by Slavers. A BU Researcher Is Working to Change That

August 13, 2024

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Boston History

What the History of Boston’s Harbor Can Teach Us about Its Uncertain Future

July 29, 2024

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2023 in Review

Best of The Brink 2023: 10 Life-Changing Inventions, Amazing Discoveries, and Surprising Findings from BU Researchers

December 11, 2023

Book History

Video: Why the UK and US have Different Titles for the same Book

November 6, 2023

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Zombies

Meet the BU Professor Building an Online Zombie Movie Archive

October 27, 2023

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Archaeology

Archaeology Student Trevor Lamb Found Some of Alaska’s Oldest Woven Textiles on Kodiak Island

October 26, 2023

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World War II

Broadway Singers, a Nazi Sympathizer, and the Doomed Flight of the Yankee Clipper

September 5, 2023

Photo: STH professor Rebecca Copeland poses for a photo on a bright green lawn. A white woman wearing glasses, a white blouse, black cardigan, and long beaded necklace, stands with hands placed in front of her. Foreground leaves frame her and an old church-like building is shown in the blurred background.

Climate Change

What Can the Bible Teach Us about Fighting Climate Change?

August 15, 2023

Photo: Eugenio Menegon (left) poses for a photo with Daryl Ireland (right). Menegon, a man with white gray hair and wearing black glasses, a light blue, checkered collared shirt and navy blue sweater smiles and poses with arms crossed. Ireland, a man wearing glasses, light blue collared shirt, gray tie, and brown blazer, smiles and poses with hands in pockets. Both stand in front of a projector displaying a representation of the global network they're working on.

Christianity

What’s behind Boom of Christianity in China?

February 2, 2023

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2022 in Review

Best of The Brink 2022: 10 Amazing Discoveries and Mind-Blowing Facts

December 12, 2022

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Latinx Researchers

Seven BU Latinx Researchers Making a Difference

October 3, 2022

Photo: American Studies PhD student MaryKate Smolenski stands and smiles in the northeast parlor and holds a portrait of Mary Robinson Hunter at Hunter House in Newport, RI. A young white woman stands in an ornate gold and red decorated room holding an old portrait in a gold frame with gloved hands.

American and New England Studies

Investigating Newport’s Ties to Slavery

September 28, 2022

Photo of one of the oldest lesbian bars in the country, Wildrose in Capitol Hill taken Sept. 14, 2016. The bar is dimly lit. In the photo, a bartender in a white shirt, with their back to the camera, fills up a bar at a tap. Behind the bar, a mirror is decorated with window paint that reads "The Wildrose, celebrating Love since 1984." The word "love" is inside a rainbow heart and smaller white hearts encircle the larger heart.

LGBTQ+ Bars

Where Are All the Lesbian Bars?

June 23, 2022

Photo of activists holding cardboard cutouts of President Joe Biden, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi protest outside of the International Monetary Fund headquarters during the World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021.

International Relations

Why the World Monetary System Needs a New Set of Rules

February 28, 2022

Why the World Monetary System Needs a New Set of Rules