Stories about "Humanities and history"
Look What We Found: A photograph of Franklin Roosevelt’s ‘Black Cabinet’
Friday, March 23, 2018 10:00 am
A framed photograph hangs in the office of Associate Professor of African American Studies Sue Houchins, a reminder of family and the power of education.
Q&A: Tim Dugan on Angels in America, 25 years after Broadway debut
Thursday, March 8, 2018 1:14 pm
Theater professor Tim Dugan felt that a Bates College production of Angels in America "would be embraced and celebrated." He was right.
Look What We Found: A note from Seamus Heaney to Georgia Nigro
Thursday, March 1, 2018 10:36 am
Heaney sent Nigro a poem with handwritten revisions.
Q&A: Three alumni poets honor the ‘perfect teacher of undergraduates,’ poet Rob Farnsworth
Wednesday, February 21, 2018 1:49 pm
As 'retirement urges sweet return,' Bates salutes poet Rob Farnsworth, who leaves the classroom after 26 years.
Students look to show diversity of the francophone world with film festival
Friday, October 27, 2017 9:50 am
French speakers come from around the world. So do the student-selected films at the Tournées Film Festival.
Video: Gideon Ikpekaogu ’17 explores his multiple identities
Friday, April 14, 2017 11:18 am
In our latest "Voices from the Class of 2017," Ikpekaogu discusses his identities as Nigerian, African, and Dutch.
What I mean when I say: ‘Disposition,’ with Lauren Ashwell
Friday, March 18, 2016 9:55 am
Philosopher Lauren Ashwell puts a metaphysical spin on an everyday term.
Slideshow: Insights from a day with Thomas Goetz ’90, Renaissance man for the digital era
Friday, May 2, 2014 12:00 pm
A day with Thomas Goetz '90, an author and entrepreneur who has scrutinized humanity's dance with information technology since the early Internet Age.
Historian Joe Hall favors Goetz ’00 and ‘The Baptism of Early Viriginia’ in Elite 8 matchup
Thursday, March 27, 2014 12:00 pm
Why not join a March Madness competition where you have a real rooting interest?
Past is prologue, says new Muskie Archives director Pat Webber
Wednesday, August 8, 2012 10:00 am
The archives supports the academic community by keeping one foot in the past and one in the present.