Food historian professor Karima Moyer-Nocchi provided an audience gathered in Gasson’s Fulton Room an overview of how pasta—once a staple of the Neapolitan poor—garnered an international reputation as the centerpiece of Italian identity.
Features, Featured Column
Murphy: Sometimes You Have to Wait
To do The Heights is often to make the mere suburban blip that is BC into the whole world, to zoom in so close that you breathlessly rewrite headlines at 1 a.m. to better capture the most microscopic of details, or reword a caption on page 14 to reflect this rather than that.
Features
Finding Truth: Sajdi’s Journey From Avoiding to Preserving History
“It was then that I decided I must do history because I wanted to discover the truth.”
Features
The Nomadic Patrick Maney Talks Classes and Conspiracies
“‘Why did I want to go into history?’ Because I’m interested in it. Will history save the world? I doubt it. Will it save my life? No, but I’m interested in it anyways,” said Maney.
Column, Features
A History Major’s Defense: Using the Past to Inform the Future
History repeats itself, observes features columnist DJ Recny as he uses professorial anecdotes and historical events to navigate through life.
News, Academics
History Professor to Appear on C-SPAN
The BC history class Race, Riots, and Rodeos: America from the End of the Civil War to 1900, was filmed on April 12 and is set to appear on C-SPAN at the start of July.
Opinions, Letters To The Editor
LTE: Tough Truths and the BC History Core: A Response to “Students’ Petition Calls for Changes in the Core”
“A number of departments have taken significant steps over the past decade to rectify the pedagogical injustice about which the students legitimately complain.”
Column, Opinions
Saving the Original BC
“Industry and necessity gutted the innards of BC’s humble original campus.”
News, On Campus, Top Story
African, African Diaspora Courses Added to Social Science, History Core
On Wednesday evening, the African and African Diaspora Studies department announced that its courses will be counted towards the social science and history core requirements starting in the fall of 2016.
Metro
Boston’s African-American History Comes Alive Via Twitter
The Boston African-American National Historic Site’s (BAANHS) sought to make history come to life through a format both familiar for young audiences and one commonly used as a news outlet today.
