On Monday night, Paul Jaskot, professor of art history and German studies at Duke University, delivered the College’s annual Holocaust Education Lecture in Kresge Auditorium. Titled “Architecture and the Holocaust,” Jaskot’s lecture explored the often unseen role architecture played in …
Everyone in South Africa is a storyteller. And all stories in South Africa circle back to apartheid. From conversations with Uber drivers to random people you meet at a market, people are eager to share their life experiences with you, …
What wartime role is more romanticized than that of a spy? Anyone can dream up high-stakes situations, cool equipment and secret missions, but can you name a single American spy besides Nathan Hale? Oh, you can? Great! How about one …
“We, the undersigned, Students of Bowdoin College, would respectfully petition that the Military Department of this institution be abolished,” read a student petition addressed to then-President of the College Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain in 1873 in opposition to his mandate of …
Over three million Russians have seen the Bowdoin quad in the last two weeks—but not for the reason you may think. On October 8, Visiting Tallman Scholar in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (REES) Ivan Kurilla was interviewed by…
In the summer of 1970, with social upheaval brewing over the Vietnam War, Brunswick residents gathered on Maine Street to express political discontent writ large by protesting an ordinance which barred public gatherings, including the throwing of footballs and frisbees …
On Wednesday, Kim Brandt, a research scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, spoke about her research as she writes a book focused on post-World War II U.S.-Japanese relations. Brandt is also the academic director for the Master of Arts …
On Wednesday evening, Professor of History at California State University Mustafah Dhada delivered the Alfred E. Golz Memorial Lecture on the Wiriyamu Massacre and his work to upend Portuguese denial narratives. Dhada opened his talk with words on the practice …
American historian and author Ronald C. White visited Bowdoin on Wednesday evening to lecture on his recent book, “On Great Fields: Joshua Chamberlain: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain.” White’s book is the first major comprehensive biography …
What is the fabric of our society, a tool of imperialism and a decades-long research topic? According to Director of Ohio Valley Center for Collaborative Arts and Assistant Professor of Instruction and Art History Sam Dodd, it’s a brick.