November 2008

International symposium on the First Republic of Armenia held at BU

rofessor Simon Payaslian, holder of the Charles and Elisa- Pbeth Kenosian Chair in Mod- On October 20 Professor William Keylor delivered an invited lecture to the Ev- ern Armenian History and Literature, ergreen Program in the Conference Auditorium of the George Sherman Union. organized a symposium on the “Legacy The title was “Foreign Policy Challenges and the American Presidential Election.” of the First Republic of Armenia, 1918- Graduate student Jolanta Komornicka attended the conference “The Devil in 1921” held on September 27. The confer- Society in the Pre-Modern World,” hosted by the Center for Reformation and Re- ence probed the long-term impact of naissance Studies at the University of Toronto;she presented a paper entitled “The the republic on the Armenian people Devil on Trial: The Changing Role of the Devil in the Trial by Ordeal.” both in Armenia and in the diaspora. The October 2008 issue of the American Historical Review contains Professor The conference was co-sponsored by Nina Silber’s featured review of Drew Faust’s This Republic of Suffering: Death and the BU’s International History Institute, American Civil War....Professor Silber, along with Professor John Matthews of the the Department of History, and the De- English Department, organized a panel on the “Global South” for the October 3 partment of International Relations, conference on “American Studies in Global Perspective” sponsored by the Boston and by the National Association for Ar- University American Studies Program. She also presented a paper for that panel on menian Studies and Research (NAASR) historical scholarship and the global south. in Belmont, Mass. Professor Eugenio Menegon’s essay “Jesuit Emblematica in China: The Use of Professor Payaslian commented that European Allegorical Images in Flemish Engravings Described in the Kouduo this conference was a celebration of the Richao (ca. 1640)” was published in the latest issue of the Chinese studies journal ninetieth anniversary of the re-emer- Monumenta Serica....Professor Menegon also presented a paper entitled “The Ma- gence of Armenian statehood in 1918 as nila Experiment: Jesuit and Dominican Evangelization Strategies for China, 1580- well as the republic’s independence af- 1630” at the “XII Jornadas Jesuiticas,” a large conference on the Jesuits in the Iberian ter the disintegration of the Soviet Un- empires held in Buenos Aires September 24-26. ion in 1991. The conference brought to- Professor Marilyn Halter gave an invited lecture entitled “African and Ameri- gether some of the best scholars in the can: West African Newcomers to Southern New England and Beyond” at the Uni- field to share their analyses with the versity of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, as part of a colloquium series on “Immigra- community. Since the final collapse of tion and Transnationalism” sponsored by the Department of Sociology/Anthro- the first republic in February 1921, the is- pology. sues surrounding its rise and fall had Graduate student Jonathan Koefoed presented a paper entitled “Bildung and been highly politicized both in Soviet the Republic: Intellectuals and Education in the Life and Thought of James Marsh” Armenia and in the diasporan commu- at the annual meeting of the New England Historical Association, held October 25 nities; as a result, no more than a hand- ful of serious studies exists on the first See EVENTS OF NOTE, page 3 republic, and certainly there are no scholarly works on its legacy. This con- In the afternoon session Dr. Ben- Betty Anderson ference sought to fill that void in our jamin F. Alexander, Towson Univer- understanding of the long-term politi- sity, Maryland, presented a paper titled granted tenure and cal and cultural significance of the first “The Thousand-day Republic and the promotion republic. In his opening remarks, Pay- Assassination of Archbishop Tourian,” aslian thanked the co-sponsors of the in which he examined the connection In October Professor Betty Ander- conference and especially Professor between contested memories of the son learned that she had been awarded William Keylor, Director of the Inter- first republic and the polarized percep- tenure and national History Institute, and Profes- tions of the Tourian affair, 1933-34.The promoted sor Cathal Nolan, Executive Director paper presented a comparative analysis to the rank of the institute, for their cooperation of the different interpretations of the of associate and advice in organizing the event. tragic event as presented in the Arme- professor at Payaslian invited Ms. Nancy Kolligian, nian community newspapers and the Boston Un- President of NAASR, to say a few words extent to which the coverage reflected iversity. on behalf of the organization. the ideological predilections of the Professor In the morning session Professor dominant diasporan parties in the Anderson’s Erik Goldstein, Chair of the Depart- United States. Dr. Razmik Panossian’s research fo- ment of International Relations at BU, paper, “The Impact of the First Repub- cuses on so- presented a paper titled “Great Britain lic on Armenian Identity in the 20th cial, educa- and the Re-emergence of Armenian Century,” explored how the first repub- tional, and political developments in Statehood,” which discussed the Brit- lic shaped subsequent Armenian politi- the modern Arab world. She is the au- ish fascination with and involvement cal thought both in Soviet Armenia thor of Nationalist Voices in Jordan: The in the Eastern Christians and how Brit- and in the Armenian diasporan com- Street and the State (University of Texas ish engagement in the region became a munities. The paper looked at Arme- Press, 2005) and co-author of History popular cause. The paper then focused nian national identity and nationalism Handbook (Houghton Mifflin, 2003). on the extent to which the pro-Arme- and at diasporan politics. Dr. Robert Her current project, under contract nian groups in the British government Krikorian, George Washington Uni- with the University of Texas Press, is a influenced foreign policy in WorldWar versity, presented a paper titled “The history of the American University of I and finally on the reasons why British Legacy of the First Independent Repub- Beirut. support for the republic collapsed. Dr. lic of Armenia and the Collapse of So- She teaches a lecture course and sev- Ara Sanjian, Director of the Armenian viet Power.” His study examined the eral colloquia on the history of the Research Center at the University of historical paradigm shift which oc- Middle East as well as the core course Michigan–Dearborn, then presented a curred in Soviet Armenia during the for concentrators, hi 200; in spring paper titled “Continuing the All-Rus- democratic movement in the late 1980s 2009 she will introduce a new course sian Revolution of February 1917:The and analyzed the competing historical entitled “Americans and the Middle Challenge of Land Reform.” His talk narratives and their political implica- East” (hi 393). examined the attempts to introduce tions in Armenia as the Soviet era ap- land reform in Eastern or Russian Ar- proached its end. Krikorian focused on menia beginning in 1917 and subse- the memories of the first Republic of quently during the republic. The paper Armenia and how these memories analyzed the social and economic pro- acted as a competing narrative and un- NEWS grams of the ruling Armenian Revolu- dermined Soviet legitimacy. N tionary Federation party in the republic of the History Department and the various approaches proposed at Boston University by the other political parties. Dr. Victo- is published monthly September ria Rowe, University of Greenwich, through May at the department office, UK, presented a paper titled “Women GRADUATE STUDENT MILESTONES 226 Bay State Road, Boston, MA as Political Actors in the First Republic 02215, telephone: 617-353-2551, E- mail: [email protected], Website: of Armenia and in the Creation of In- Ellen Horrow passed the language ex- www.bu.edu/history. ternational Networks of Refugee Relief, amination in Hebrew. 1918-1925.” Her paper considered the po- Editor: James T. Dutton, Depart- litical status of Armenian women in the Mary Mason Williams’s research paper, ment Administrator first republic and their activism on be- “Contested Memory in the Cradle of Items of interest for publication and half of the republic at the League of Na- Liberty: The Bicentennial of the Ameri- changes of address should be sent to tions. She then discussed the resulting can Revolution and the Busing Crisis in the editor. legacy of political participation of Boston, 1974-1976,” was accepted for women in the Armenian diaspora. credit toward the master’s degree.

Page 2 NEWS EVENTS OF NOTE (cont. from page 1) lition and Creative Progress” (October Mugar Library News 9-11); the paper was entitled “Angolans at Endicott College. and Gold Coasters in the History of The current issue of the Journal of New York.” Contemporary History features a special Professor Andrew Bacevich’s recent by Donald Altschiller section on the United States in the publications include: “He Told Us to History Bibliographer 1970s that derives from the second an- Go Shopping. Now the Bill Is Due,” nual BU-Cambridge conference that The WashingtonPost (October 4); “Sarah fi convened at Clare College, Cam- Palin and John Winthrop,” Huf ngton he BU libraries recently sub- 2007 3 bridge, in . The issue includes four Post (October ); and “Bush’s Third scribed to RefWorks, an excel- 27 papers from that conference plus a War,” Los Angeles Times (September ). lent web-based bibliography commentary by Professor Bruce Graduate student Stephen Arguetta T management tool which allows you to Schulman. is currently serving on the CAS/GRS collect, arrange, and edit citations, Professor Louis Ferleger is series ed- Social Sciences Curriculum Commit- footnotes, endnotes, and other items itor of Historians in Conversation (Uni- tee, helping to evaluate new courses for your bibliographies from any com- versity of South Carolina Press). Two proposed by the faculty and other cur- puter with Internet access. This soft- additional volumes in the series have ricular matters. ware helps produce properly formatted appeared: Recent Themes in the History of Professor James McCann has been in-text references, citations, and bibli- Africa and the Atlantic World and Recent appointed Senior Fellow at the Pardee ographies in many different styles in- Themes in Early American History....Pro- Institute for the Study of the Longer- cluding MLA, APA, Chicago, and fessor Ferleger presented a paper (with Term Future. He participated in a semi- Turabian. RefWorks can be accessed John Metz), “‘Room for Improvement, nar at the institute on the topic “Future from the main BU library webpage But No Room for Progress’: The Mate- Challenges in Food Security”; the other (www.bu.edu/library); the online tutori- rial Basis of the Economic and Social member of the panel was Hans als are very helpful. Transformation of Middle Georgia, Hoogeveen, the Director General of 1880-1910 ,” at the Business and Labour the Ministry of Agriculture of the Neth- Students often look for authorita- 2008-09 History Group (University of Sydney) erlands....For Professor tive primary sources which are available Symposium on “Mirrored Histories: McCann is serving as Director ad in- online. While many sites offer free ac- Consumption and Work in the Asia terim of the African Studies Center and cess, the library currently subscribes to fic 20 Paci ”onJune ....Ferleger will pres- is chair of the Dean’s Search Commit- several outstanding digital primary ent a paper entitled “Europe, the State, tee for a director of that center....In Feb- sources which are not in the public do- 2009 and Agricultural Development in the ruary McCann will lecture at the main. The following databases (also in- Late Nineteenth Century” at the MIT seminar on Environment and Ag- cluding full-text secondary source data- FRESH (Future Research in Economic ricultural History entitled “She Sings: bases) can be accessed from the main and Social History) conference that will My Life as a Mosquito.” The lecture BU library site: www.bu.edu/library/ be held at the Université Louis Pasteur, will outline his next book project on a eresources/index.html. Strasbourg, France, on November 15. landscape and human history of ma- 3 On October graduate student Da- laria in a small village in Ethiopia. British History Online vid Atkinson gave a paper entitled On October 9 Professor Jon Rob- “Anglo-American Relations and the erts gave a presentation sponsored by British History Online contains Burdens of Whiteness” at the Boston the Mary Baker Eddy Library in Boston some of the core printed primary and University Symposium on American on “Varieties of Scientific Experience: secondary sources for the medieval and Studies in Global Perspective....On Oc- Mary Baker Eddy, William James and modern history of the British Isles. The tober 5 he delivered a paper entitled Other Honest Investigators of the website was created by the Institute of “The ‘White Australia Policy,’ Britain, Nineteenth Century.” Historical Research (London) and the and Japan in the Great War” at the An- Alumnus Jussi Hanhimäki (PhD History of Parliament Trust. nual Meeting of the North American 1993) sends greetings from Geneva. “As Conference on British Studies in a result of being corrupted by the prox- Early English Books Online Cincinnati, Ohio. imity of the European headquarters of From the first book published in Professor John Thornton’s article the UN,” he writes, “I have managed to English through the age of Spenser and “Les Etats de l’Angola et la formation produce another small book entitled Shakespeare, this collection contains de Palmares (Brésil)” has appeared in United Nations: A VeryShort Introduction about 100,000 of over 125,000 titles 2008 the journal Annales: Histoire, Sciences (Oxford University Press, ). It listed in Pollard & Redgrave’s Short-Title 2008 Sociales (July-August ). He and Pro- might be of some interest for readers of Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing’s Short- N fessor Linda Heywood presented a pa- the department newsletter.” Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their re- per at New York University in the con- ference “Slave Routes, Resistance, Abo- See MUGAR NEWS, page 7

November 2008 Page 3 With a substantial number of faculty four. We are expecting a third boy members on leave during the current just after Christmas, which Isadora academic year, the department re- and I take as proof that not only do quested funding to hire full-time re- “some people never learn” but that we placement instructors and was fortu- are some people. nate to be able to appoint three schol- I returned to Boston University in ars. We have asked them to introduce 2003 and completed my PhD in the themselves to the readers of the news- History Department in 2007. My dis- letter. sertation concerned the environmen- tal thought and activism of Julian and Aldous Huxley in the Cold War era, and my broader research explores the history of American environmental- ism within a transnational context. I am currently developing an article for publication on the relationship be- tween such Cold War technologies as Paul Schmitz the Bomb, space travel, and the Internet and the emergence of a global environmental movement in the sixties and seventies. My work has Boston University and a loyal alum- been published in Agni, Endeavour, nus of the American and New Eng- and the Berkeley Poetry Review, and my land Studies Program. In 2006, I re- most recent article, “The New Ecol- ceived my PhD from AMNESP with ogy of Power: Julian and Aldous a focus on modern US history. Why Huxley in the Cold War Era,” will be did I pursue American Studies rather published next year by Cambridge than a traditional history degree? As Samuel Deese University Press as part of a collection an undergraduate, I had majored in of essays on the Cold War and the en- history and English and BU’s pro- vironment. gram allowed me to continue to de- In the first semester of the current velop an interdisciplinary perspective Richard Samuel Deese academic year, I am teaching a section (in other words, it allowed me to sup- of “The Historian’s Craft” (hi 200), plement my steady diet of history the lecture course on the American with heavy doses of literature, archi- grew up in Claremont, California. Presidency (hi 372), and a graduate tecture, and popular music and cul- IMy father is a ceramic sculptor and seminar on American Political History ture). My particular scholarly interests my mother is an English professor (hi 752). In the spring semester I will include urban studies, immigration whose primary research interest is the offer the second half of the US his- and ethnicity, American culture, and poetry of Robert Lowell. After earning tory survey (hi 152) and the course business history. In pursuing my doc- my bachelor’s degree in history at UC usually taught by Professor Capper, torate, I studied under Marilyn Halter, Berkeley, I traveled to East Asia, “Intellectual History of the US, 1900- Bruce Schulman, and Nina Silber, and where I taught English composition at Present” (hi 374/874). served as a teaching fellow for Bill Nanjing University in China. I first Keylor—so my first faculty meeting came to Boston University to study this fall was a bit surreal. (As with poetry, and it was here that I met my Paul Schmitz Thanksgiving dinner, I chose to sit at wife, Isadora Deese, when we were the kids’ table.) both students in GRS. She currently Marilyn Halter served as the able works in an administrative position at hile I am currently serving as director of my doctoral dissertation, MIT, and we have two boys: Nick, Wa one-year replacement for “D’Agostino Supermarkets, From eight, and Charlie, who just turned Bruce Schulman, I am a veteran of Pushcart to Product: Family and Eth-

Page 4 NEWS nicity as Cultural Currency.” This ever. (He has promised to revive the project explored the evolution of eth- “Schulman Brand” when he returns nic identity and food retailing from his sabbatical.) I am grateful for through the history of one of New the generous support and encourage- York City’s foremost grocery compa- ment I have received from Bruce, nies. It used the story of the Marilyn Halter, Jim Dutton, Sam D’Agostino family to illustrate how, Deese, and Charles Dellheim. over the course of the twentieth cen- In terms of the assorted biographi- tury, the proverbial Ellis Island immi- cal and personal details of my life, I grant has come to represent the Amer- originally hail from Sacramento, Cali- ican values of self-reliance, diligence, fornia, where my father—a poet and and independence. I also considered writer—taught at the local state col- how pushcarts and grocery stores have lege. I was childhood friends with last served as a means of upward mobility year’s Bacon Lecturer, Stephen Pitti of and adaptation for many immigrants— Yale University; Stephen and I were a way for them to “become Ameri- fellow inmates at the local Catholic can” by incorporating the ethos of the school for boys. (For an academic, he Heléna Tóth free enterprise system. In the process has a mean jump shot.) I grew up in a of making this argument, I provided a large family with parents from micro-history of the supermarket and Queens, New York, and Dubuque, Heléna Tóth an analysis of the cultural import of Iowa—so organizational chaos and ethnic and family-owned businesses. conflicting agendas are fairly normal The project itself was a labor of love, to me. After graduating from the Uni- was born and raised in Hungary, as my mother is a D’Agostino (and versity of California at Davis, I spent Iwhere I grew up with a deep appre- she had plenty to say about my schol- two years as a teacher and social ciation for foreign languages. The arship). The dissertation manuscript is worker on the mean streets of South main aspect of the Cold War I no- currently under consideration at one Boston and Chicago as a member of ticed as a child was that I had to study academic press, but if any of my col- the Jesuit Volunteer Corps. Then in Russian for a year and, as a grammar leagues has special connections to the 1996, I entered the American and New school student, I thought that was not publishing world, please let me know. England Studies Program at Boston at all a bad idea. The Russian alphabet My next project will be an exploration University. In 2000, I worked for a looked beautiful and exotic, and I of comparative experiences of Italian, year at the Peabody-Essex Museum in liked the sound of the language. As Jewish, and Korean entrepreneurs in Salem, before I realized that I should the Russian troops were leaving Hun- New York City. not have an occupation that required gary after the fall of the Berlin wall, so While a doctoral student, I taught the handling of priceless, fragile ob- disappeared Russian language educa- multiple courses on the modern jects. When I am not teaching, read- tion from grammar schools; I first lav- American city and the culture of im- ing, or bothering Mr. Dutton with ished attention on German, then on migration/migration for the American silly questions, I enjoy basketball, run- Spanish and found them just as enter- Studies program. Then in 2007 and ning, eating large quantities of Italian taining as Russian. Spending my high 2008, I taught humanities, urban stud- food, the music of New Orleans, film school years studying these languages, ies, and business history at Babson (favorite categories include the Marx I could not help but appreciate the College in Wellesley. In addition, I Brothers, film noir, Italian Neo-Real- irony of life when I won a scholarship worked with Bruce Schulman in the ism, and anything with Bill Murray), to finish my high school at Atlantic Teaching American History program— the television dramas “The Wire” and College in Wales. Armed with an Eng- designing and co-teaching graduate “Mad Men,” and taking train and car lish grammar book and a dictionary, I courses on American politics and ur- trips across the United States. One of crossed the English Channel to spend ban history for teachers in the Boston my principal goals is to visit all fifty two years at a medieval Welsh castle, Public Schools system. This semester, states before I turn 40. After a hiking sharing the challenges and joys of I am teaching hi 364 (“Postwar Amer- excursion in Montana this last July, I studying at a boarding school with ica, 1945 to 1968”) and the hi 468 col- only need to set foot in Oklahoma, students from all over the world. At loquium (“American Society since Kansas, North Dakota, Idaho, Hawaii, Atlantic College I divided my time 1970”). Thus far, I have enjoyed work- and Alaska to complete this process. I between my studies and public ser- ing with many thoughtful, intelligent currently live in Newtonville with my vice, a practice I continued during my students who genuinely care about lovely wife, Rebecca—a former social college years in the United States. I the study of history. Trying to match worker who is now an administrator worked with mentally disabled chil- Professor Schulman’s great legacy as a in the Academic Advising Center at dren and was a tutor of mathematics teacher has been challenging, how- Boston College. and English in a prison education

November 2008 Page 5 program. to conduct archival research in Eu- By the time I crossed the Atlantic rope (Stuttgart, Tübingen, Berlin, and to study at Harvard University, I was Budapest). In the dusty reading rooms certain that I wanted to major in his- of archives I developed a deep appre- tory. My initial interest in the history ciation for legible handwriting in pri- of international relations changed as I mary sources, mastered the ability to became increasingly fascinated with decipher nearly illegible scrawling, the history of migration and political and decided that the magnifying glass exile. This interest was sparked, in was a great invention. I enjoyed im- part, by a serendipitous encounter mensely the architecture of small me- with a collection of salt prints at the dieval towns in southwest Germany, Harvard Fine Arts Library. The salt the remarkable collections of modern prints, an early form of photography, art in Stuttgart, and the concert sea- depicted the drawings of a Hungarian son in Budapest. I was thrilled to be woman who participated in the revo- in Germany during the 2006 soccer Sarah Phillips lution of 1848. The drawings were World Cup and to be able to watch carefully bound in a beautiful album, “The Lives of Others” the day when it bearing the book plate of a wealthy was first released. Bostonian family, the Lowells. What Returning to Harvard with my ar- Success in US political was the connection between the Hun- chival treasures, I devoted myself to garian woman and the Lowells? How teaching and writing in equal mea- history search did a collection of drawings of the sures and learned immensely from Hungarian revolution of 1848 end up both. I served as a history advisor in Last year’s search for a faculty mem- in Boston? My detective work uncov- one of the student houses and found ber in American political history has ered a network of upper-class women this work very fulfilling. The best ad- now come to a successful end. Sarah in Boston, including Mary Lowell vice I ever received on how to over- Phillips, an alumna of the department Putnam, who supported Hungarian come writers’ block was to read po- (PhD 2004) and currently assistant pro- refugees of 1848, because they believed etry. I found the playfulness of poetry fessor in the History Department at Co- that their charity had a broader politi- inspiring as I crafted my dissertation lumbia University, will join the Boston cal significance. What started as a chapters and fell in love with the University faculty in September 2009 small investigation driven by curiosity works of Robert Frost. I completed to teach alongside her mentor, Profes- developed into a major research pro- my dissertation in the summer of sor Bruce Schulman. ject and eventually a senior thesis. 2008 and am looking forward to turn- In addition to 20th-century US po- Still under the spell of the global ing it into a book in the near future. I litical history, Sarah specializes in envi- impact of the aftermath of the revolu- am the author of book chapters on ronmental and agricultural history. She tions of 1848, I entered graduate various aspects of political exile and is the author of This Land, This Nation: school at my alma mater. I broadened an article on American women’s read- Conservation, Rural America, and the my subject of research to include not ing and book collecting habits in the New Deal (Cambridge University Press, only Hungarian but also German ref- nineteenth century. 2007) and of numerous book chapters ugees, and I studied four host societ- As the ink dried on my disserta- and articles. Her current research in- ies: the United States, England, Swit- tion, I crossed the Charles to join the cludes a new book project, “The Price zerland, and the Ottoman Empire. history department at Boston Univer- of Plenty: Cheap Food and American My dissertation focused on the experi- sity for the academic year. I now teach Global Influence,” and a co-authored ence of exile. While exile is often con- survey courses and seminars on mod- work under consideration for publica- sidered an individual challenge, my ern European history and keep learn- tion, “Food and Politics in Postwar dissertation studied its collective as- ing from my students’ perceptive and America: A Brief History with Docu- pects. I located the experience of exile thought-provoking questions. ments.” in three realms: the family, employ- If I am not sitting in a reading In the fall of 2009 Professor Phillips ment, and social networks. As I ex- room thinking about my new project will teach hi 363 (“Twentieth-Century plored the interconnectedness of on the cultural history of funerals in US History, 1900-1945”) and “Postwar these three areas, I learned about the the Communist bloc or in a coffee America, 1945-1969”(hi 467). In spring ways in which new realities con- shop, where my best ideas are born, I she will offer a graduate seminar in fronted old patterns of social and po- can be found at the Harvard Film Ar- American political history and a new litical interaction in mid-nineteenth- chives, attending an event organized course on environmental issues. century Europe. by the Boston Tango Society, or tak- The department looks forward to In the course of my graduate stud- ing a daytrip somewhere along the welcoming Sarah back to Boston Uni- ies, I left Harvard for a year and a half East Coast. N versity.

Page 6 NEWS MUGAR NEWS (cont. from page 3) English-language and foreign-language tire collection from the years 1851 to titles printed in the United Kingdom, 2004. This remarkable collection in- vised editions, as well as the Thomason along with thousands of important cludes every word appearing in the pa- Tracts (1640-1661) collection and the works from the Americas. Contains sig- per, including display and classified Early English Books Tract Supplement. nificant works by women writers of the ads, death notices, which are all accessi- This eclectic collection covers many eighteenth century, collections on the ble from multiple search points. subject areas, including: English litera- French Revolution, ancient and con- ture, history, philosophy, linguistics, temporary history, accounts of voyages JSTOR theology, music, fine arts, education, and discoveries, historical biographies A full-text collection of back issues mathematics, and science. and memoirs, genealogical collections, (from volume 1 to approximately five gazetteers, works on church antiquities years ago) of core scholarly journals. In- and tourist guides of Britain, military Early American Newspapers cludes journals in African American history, maps, local history, and topog- Contains images of hundreds of his- studies, anthropology, Asian studies, raphy. This unique collection presents toric newspapers listed in Clarence classics, ecology, economics, educa- the British perspective on the Ameri- Brigham’s authoritative bibliography tion, finance, history, literature, mathe- can Revolution. (History and Bibliography of American matics, philosophy, political science, Newspapers, Mugar Reference xz6951. population studies, sociology, and sta- f47) and subsequent bibliographies. In- Harper’s Weekly Online tistics. cludes Early American Newspapers,Se- Contains the full-text images from ries 1 (1690-1876). this major US newspaper, which once Project Muse reached a national circulation of about Similar to JSTOR, Project Muse pro- 300,000. Excellent illustrations, car- Eighteenth-Century Collections vides full-text access to current and ret- toons, maps, and portraits. Online rospective content in the humanities Includes 138,000 English-language and social sciences published in over Historical Newspapers of the New titles and editions published between 400 titles from about 100 non-profit 1701 and 1800. When complete, the ar- York Times publishers. N chive will cover the most significant A full-text image archive of the en-

The following events have been scheduled for the remainder of the fall semester:

I October 29 James T.Campbell, Stanford University “Broadcasting the New South Africa and Other Adventures in the Americanization of South Africa”

I November 12 Gretchen Heefner, Yale University “The Radical Plains: Antinuclear Protest, the Reagan Revolution, and the Double Life of Prairie Populism”

I December 3 Sam James, Cambridge University “The Influence of Pragmatism on American Historiography Since 1945”

The seminars are held in Room 504 at 226 Bay State Road at noon and are open to all. Papers will be available two weeks before the seminar (contact Professor Schulman at [email protected] for more information). The seminars are partially supported by the Boston University Humanities Foundation.

November 2008 Page 7 Department of History Boston University 226 Bay State Road Boston, MA 02215

Update on spring 2009 Conference on American history to meet at BU courses

The fourth in the rotating series of international conferences in American history hi 750, the course on American his- (held under the auspices of the BU Institute for American Political History) will take toriography required of all graduate place at the Boston University Castle, March 19-20, 2009. The event is co-sponsored students, will be taught by Professor by Boston University, Clare College (Cambridge University), and Princeton University. Brendan McConville Tuesdays 9:30 The theme of this year’s event is “Rethinking American Liberalism: Progressive Pol- a.m.-12:30 p.m. This class examines the itics and the Public Sphere.” Participants will include: methodological and professional de- Andrew Bacevich, Boston University velopment of American historians Anthony Badger, Cambridge University since the 1880s, changes in the field Jonathan Bell, University of Reading since the founding period, and new di- Brooke Blower, Boston University rections in US history. 754 Howard Brick , University of Michigan hi , a graduate seminar on Ameri- can economic history, has been added Lizabeth Cohen, Harvard University to the spring schedule. It will be taught Susan Hartmann, Ohio State University by Professor Louis Ferleger Tuesdays Matthew Lassiter, University of Michigan 12:30-3:30 p.m. Nelson Lichtenstein, University of California, Santa Barbara Bruce Miroff, SUNY Albany News of Jewish history Sarah Phillips, Columbia University Andrew Preston, Cambridge University search Doug Rossinow, Metropolitan State University As of late October, the department had Bruce Schulman, Boston University received 39 applications for the junior Daniel Scroop, University of Sheffield search in modern Jewish history. The Timothy Stanley, University of Sussex search committee has been reading ma- Timothy Thurber, Virginia Commonwealth University terials and will propose a short list early Details will follow in subsequent newsletters. in the new year and then organize cam- pus visits.