Stories about "Humanities and history"
Voices from MLK Day: ‘We are finished sitting quietly, insisting on the possibility of change’
Friday, January 21, 2022 11:44 am
Five speakers on MLK Day at Bates, Maine-based thinkers, practitioners, and activists, offered personal narratives and insights that vividly captured the day's theme, "What I Mean When I Say: Decolonization and Liberation."
Spied: 11 curiosities in a Bates student’s circa 1908 dorm room
Monday, January 10, 2022 12:00 pm
Click the garnet buttons of this interactive photograph to learn what we spied in the Parker Hall room of George French, Class of 1908.
Read real cases of the Spanish Inquisition on a unique Bates website
Thursday, December 2, 2021 2:21 pm
Read real cases of the Spanish Inquisition, and see images of original documents, including the inquisition a Mexican silversmith accused of wearing unsensible shoes.
Then and Now: A photo tour around the Bates Quad
Thursday, November 4, 2021 1:57 pm
Once around the Quad, shall we? Here’s an interactive look at historical images of Bates buildings around the Historic Quad paired with images taken this week.
Then and Now: Bates buildings and places, Reunion 2021 edition
Friday, June 4, 2021 11:38 am
Prepared as part of Reunion 2021 programming, an interactive look at a few Bates buildings and spaces as they looked years ago, and now.
Notorious (but harmless) pathogens preserved in Bates professor’s new-found World War I slides
Friday, November 13, 2020 11:13 am
A trove of wartime microscope slides include specimens of gonorrhea, diphtheria, tuberculosis, meningitis.
Video: A professor’s award-winning poem, graced by Androscoggin River scenes
Thursday, November 5, 2020 4:40 pm
Ian Khara Ellasante's poem is an ode to their grandfather, who like so many of our grandparents, write themselves on our hearts, helping to "grow us and shape us like water.”
Meet new faculty: Tyler Harper and science fiction that goes beyond just beach reading
Friday, September 18, 2020 9:13 am
Harper researches how science fiction depicts human extinction while asking, "Who gets to live in new worlds?"
Meet new Bates faculty: Mark Tizzoni and the connection between fifth-century Vandals and today’s white nationalists
Thursday, September 3, 2020 1:47 pm
A new tenure-track assistant professor of classical and medieval studies, Tizzoni explains how fifth-century ideas about national identity are now being used by white nationalists to "prop up their worldviews. And this needs to be countered."
Ariel Abonizio ’20 creates virtual-reality tours for Museum L-A
Thursday, September 3, 2020 12:13 pm
With a Purposeful Work internship available to graduating seniors this year, Abonizio worked with high-end multimedia gear to create VR tours of two major exhibitions, one on the history of child labor in Maine, the other about the Androscoggin River.