Dana Sajdi, an associate professor of history at Boston College, received two grants—the Teaching, Advising, and Mentoring Grant and the Innovations in Graduate Education Grant—this past May, with plans to change the way we learn about history.
Metro, Newton
Historic Newton Highlights City’s Centuries-Old Relationship With Christmas
Historic Newton, a partnership between the Newton Historical Society and the City of Newton, hosted an event over Zoom on Dec. 5 detailing the history of Christmas in the Newton and the Greater Boston area.
News, On Campus
Moyer-Nocchi Serves Up a Taste of Culinary History
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.
Featured Column, Features
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.
Features, Column
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.”
Opinions, Column
Saving the Original BC
“Industry and necessity gutted the innards of BC’s humble original campus.”
