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Number of articles: 12
First Article: October 31, 2025
Latest Article: April 22, 2026
Though the Hunt-Lenox Globe is one of only two known relics of the Age of Discovery to bear this landmark medieval phrase, there are myriad examples of maps on which stretches of sea or far-off edges of civilization are marked …
“And why should we go hunting for a substitute for youthful desires, when youthful desires never fail? A substitute for distractions, when we go on enjoying all the old fooleries to the very last? What need have we of repose …
“You and I ought not to die before we have explained ourselves to each other.”
By the time John Adams penned this line to Thomas Jefferson in 1813, the two men had been at odds for over a decade following …
“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
If you share my penchant for period dramas, these lines from …
In Edinburgh, only a short walk from Waverly Station, lies the Scotsman Picturehouse. The Art Deco boutique cinema seats 48 in red leather armchairs, and it was here, 3,000 miles away from Brunswick, that Bowdoin appeared onscreen.
Oliver Hermanus’ film …
Stillpoint, held in the Chapel every Tuesday at 9:00 p.m., offers students, faculty, staff and community members 30 minutes to pause. Though the retreat appears on Bowdoin’s events calendar and has roots in the Rachel Lord Center for Spiritual and …
Students and community members gathered Thursday at the Hawthorne-Longfellow Library (H-L) to celebrate the launch of English and Cinema Studies Professor Avivia Briefel’s latest book. “Ghosts and Things: The Material Culture of Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism” deals with the spiritualist movement of …
Last Friday afternoon, the third floor of Hawthorne–Longfellow Library filled with students, librarians, faculty and community members as the Bowdoin Preservation Collective (BPC) unveiled their reimagined Joshua Chamberlain exhibition—an effort months in the making and years in the dreaming.
Over …
Though we recognize names such as W.E.B. DuBois, Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston in conversations about Black intellectual life, the name Arturo Alfonso Schomburg remains relatively obscure.
Schomburg is the namesake of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black …
