BU History Alum Kathryn Brownell Teaches the Art of the Op-Ed and Senior History Major Catherine Devlin Applies the Lessons in an Original Piece for HNN
In September, BU History Ph.D. Kathryn Brownell returned to campus to lead a series of workshops on historical op-ed writing. Dr. Brownell, currently Associate Professor of History at Purdue, is the co-editor of “Made By History,” the Washington Post section that brings historical perspectives to contemporary news stories. During her visit, Brownell spoke to graduate students and visited HI 467, a writing intensive seminar on “Postwar America” that explores various types of historical writing.
Inspired by Brownell’s workshop, BU Senior History major Catherine Devlin wrote, pitched, and published her own op-ed, on the forgotten opposition to the original space race of the 1960s and its legacies in the current moment of billionaires in outer space at HNN. You can find it here.