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Using Theatre to Celebrate History's Lost Heroes
Judith Kalaora brings overlooked historical figures back to life through her stage troupe History at Play. The standardized patient/medical educator at Boston University School of Medicine performs "Rendezvous with Rachel Revere," a dramatic [...]retelling Rachel Revere's experience in the hours after her husband Paul took his famous midnight ride.
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Research Fellow Discovers Untold Stories from the Past
MaryKate is a research fellow for the Preservation Society of Newport County. She spent time conducting archival research to create a new tour of Hunter House, one of the historical house in Newport, RI. This new tour incorporates these newly [...]discovered stories found in her research.
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The Hidden History of Ice Harvesting in New England
That industrialists made fortunes from ice—a product that is so ubiquitous today—may seem bizarre, but the birth of the ice industry is a crucial historic development, says Andrew Robichaud, a College of Arts & Sciences assistant professor of [...]history who is writing a book on the ice trade, which took off in the 1820s and lasted about 100 years—until refrigeration rendered it unnecessary. By the year 1847, Robichaud says that 353 ice-packed vessels left Boston Harbor on their way to the American South, as well as international ports like Rio de Janeiro and Hong Kong. Boston alone exported almost 75,000 tons of ice that year, and used another 27,000 tons here. Much of it came from Fresh Pond in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a kettle hole lake about five miles outside downtown Boston.
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What is Juneteenth?
Last month, Boston University announced that it was adding Juneteenth to the University calendar as an official holiday, so we asked Andrea Taylor (COM’68) BU’s senior diversity officer, to explain Juneteenth’s origins, history, and purpose. As [...]we emerge from a pandemic and a year of intense reckoning around racial justice and equality, the longtime civil rights activist, former University trustee, and former president and CEO of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute talks about the day’s significance.
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Fall 2020 CC 221, Lecture 6: Arkin and McConville on the French Revolution
Kimberly Arkin lectures on the French Revolution and various declarations of liberty and equality for the students of CC 221 (Social Sciences I: Making the Modern World: Progress, Politics, and Economics") in the Boston University Core Curriculum, on [...]October 8, 2020. Followed by further comments on history by Brendan McConville.
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A Love Letter from Clifford Odets to Luise Rainer
Faculty and students from the School of Theatre read excerpts from famous love letters collected by the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center. In the video above, Dylan Wack (CFA’18) reads a romantic love letter filled with longing from [...]playwright Clifford Odets to his soon-to-be wife, Oscar-winning actress Luise Rainer.
Read the full story and watch readings of other love letters on BU Today: /today/2018/love-letters-brought-to-life/
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A Love Letter from Richard Burton to Claire Bloom
Faculty and students from the School of Theatre read excerpts from famous love letters collected by the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center. Listen as Jim Petosa, director of Boston University’s School of Theatre, reads a romantic love [...]letter from actor Richard Burton expressing his love for actress Claire Bloom. At the time, he was still married to his first wife, Sybill Williams.
Read the full story and watch readings of other love letters on BU Today: /today/2018/love-letters-brought-to-life/
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A Love Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams
Faculty and students from the School of Theatre read excerpts from famous love letters collected by the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center. Among the correspondence is this letter from founding father and future US president John Adams to his [...]wife, Abigail, read by Josh Gluck (CFA’18).
Read the full story and watch readings of other love letters on BU Today: /today/2018/love-letters-brought-to-life/
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