Stories about "History"
Middle East expert to discuss U.S. role in Israeli-Palestinian peace
Tuesday, November 29, 2011 1:50 pm
Lara Friedman visits Bates to discuss America's role in advancing Israeli-Palestinian peace.
Finder of rare Auschwitz photos to speak
Monday, November 7, 2011 8:52 pm
Ann Weiss, who discovered at Auschwitz a cache of photographs from the lives of Jewish victims before they arrived at the death camp, speaks at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 14, at the Edmund S. Muskie Archives.
Defending their honors theses, young scholars undergo a final metamorphosis
Monday, October 31, 2011 4:42 pm
Behind the closed doors of an honors defense, young scholars undergo a final metamorphosis.
Lisbon Street mural project of 1971
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 2:37 pm
A 1971 project to paint a colorful mural on a Lisbon Street brick wall was a sign of the times.
Medieval scholars visit to discuss 'Responses to Hard Times'
Monday, October 17, 2011 9:55 am
With an economic recession, lengthy overseas wars and a run of natural disasters hitting the U.S. and other lands, these are trying times. Yet scholars visiting Bates for the Medieval Miseries: Responses to Hard Times conference know that things could be even tougher. Bates hosts the 38th annual New England Medieval Conference on Saturday, Oct. 22, in Room G65, Pettengill Hall, 4 Andrews Road (Alumni Walk).
With contemporary interest, Society of Antiquaries elects Michael Jones as Fellow
Friday, October 7, 2011 9:18 am
When Professor of History Michael Jones learned of his recent election as…
Video: Dick Gregory and the ‘end of recess’
Thursday, May 26, 2011 12:04 pm
The activist expounds upon a pointed social and educational observation that "recess is over."
Hirai offers Sun Journal historical, personal insights into Tohoku earthquake
Friday, March 18, 2011 10:06 am
Atsuko Hirai, the Kazushige Hirasawa Professor of History, offers personal and historical…
Symposium explores Latin American revolutions
Friday, March 4, 2011 1:01 pm
An analyst from the National Security Archive and scholars from Duke and New York universities take part in the Bates College symposium "Latin American Revolutions" in afternoon and evening sessions on Wednesday and Thursday, March 9 and 10.
Postcard: Revolutionary icon accompanies history professor to class
Wednesday, February 23, 2011 10:58 am
Preparing to leave her Pettengill Hall office to teach HIST 390H, “The…