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Undergraduate Research in :60
This year, honors history student Diana Griffin (CAS'13) had the opportunity to travel not only to London, but through time. With grants from the Department of History and the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, Griffin spent the Fall [...]Semester haunting the London Archives for her thesis on Elizabeth I. Her family is nuts for the royals (her parents named each of their girls after British princesses), so the opportunity to get up close and personal with the monarchy's colorful history was the talk of the Griffin household. Little did they know how up close and personal. "I thought I would have to wear white gloves to handle the documents, but that wasn't the case," Griffin says. "Instead, I was holding the very same letters that Elizabeth held. My fingers touched the same places her fingers touched. It was so powerful. It was like I was suddenly there with her."
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Ol' Blue Eyes is Back... Sort Of
Jesse Garlick (CFA’14) bears little physical resemblance to Frank Sinatra. And with his untucked shirt, rolled-up sleeves, and sneakers, his appearance has none of the great singer’s famously elegant style. And for the record, [...]Garlick’s eyes are brown, not the famous azure that earned his hero the nickname “Ol’ blue eyes.†But when Garlick launches into “Come Fly with Me,†one of Sinatra’s signature classics, during a performance at the Waban Health and Rehabilitation Center in Newton, his timbre and phrasing are unmistakably reminiscent of the iconic crooner.
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The Sloane House
Sloane House, the Gothic revival mansion Beverly Brown shares with her husband, University President Robert A. Brown, has seized her imagination and inspired her to chronicle its history.
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Getting to Know Your Neighborhood: The North End
Unofficially referred to as Boston’s “Little Italy,†the North End is one of Boston’s smallest neighborhoods (just three quarters of a mile in size), but it has played an outsized role in the city’s cultural, [...]historical, and gustatory history.
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At Twilight, An Interview With a Vampire... Expert
In the video above, vampire expert Joseph Laycock (GRS13) discusses those elusive creatures of the night ahead of the release of the second film in the Twilight series, New Moon.
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edX | BUx: War for the Greater Middle East: INTL301x: About Video
War for the Greater Middle East
Military historian Andrew Bacevich recounts the failed U.S. military effort over several decades to "fix" the Islamic world, explaining what
went wrong and why.
Register for War for the Greater Middle East from [...]Boston University at https://www.edx.org/course/bux/bux-intl301x-war-greater-middle-east-1556
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Over thirty years ago, confident in the superiority of American military power, the United States set out to "fix" the Greater Middle East. Since that time, U.S. troops, covert operatives and proxies have engaged in costly exertions in predominantly Muslim societies everywhere from the Levant and the Persian Gulf to East Africa and Central Asia. With what result? Washington's efforts have exacted a terrible toll, squandering vast amounts of blood and treasure. In the meantime, the Islamic world has become less stable while anti-American radicalism flourishes. America’s War for the Greater Middle East has failed, and that failure is irreversible.
This course offers a history of that war. It identifies the factors that inspired the United States to launch the conflict and to persist in a doomed enterprise. It describes how the war unfolded from one phase to the next, from the era of Jimmy Carter to the age of Barack Obama. It catalogs errors of judgment and implementation made along the way. It invites students to consider alternative approaches to policy that might have better served the interests of the United States and of the people living in countries invaded, occupied, bombed and otherwise subjected to American punishment.
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Beyond Utopia: 5,000 Years of Brook Farm
Thanks to the work of archaeologist Sarah Keklak (CAS’09, GRS’13), many of the uncovered secrets of Brook Farm’s past can now been seen in an exhibit she curated titled “Beyond Utopia: 5,000 Years at Brook Farm.â€
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Will the Real St. Patrick Please Stand Up?
On this side of the pond, there’s certainly a “traditional†way to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day — the rites typically involve a parade, green clothing, and copious amounts of ale-induced merrymaking. The Guinness [...]corporation is even leading a charge to make it a national holiday in the United States, as it is in Ireland.
As the city of Boston — host of the nation’s first St. Patrick’s Day Parade, in 1737 — decks itself in green for another year’s celebration, BU Today hit the streets to find out just how much people know about Ireland’s patron saint.
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GSDM 50th Anniversary: 50 Years of Pictures
A wonderful compilation of photos of the last fifty years at the Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine.
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