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Elements goes digital
Last week marked a milestone for Elements, the Boston College undergraduate research journal: its 10th anniversary and the launch of its digital platform. The publication has collaborated with Boston College Libraries to become an open access journal operating under a Creative Commons … Continue reading
Nathaniel Hawthorne & Frederick Douglass
Two seminal 19th-century works – both significant in the evolution of American thought and writing, but rarely considered in relation to one another – are the focus of a Burns Library exhibition, “Nathaniel Hawthorne and Frederick Douglass: Texts and Contexts.” … Continue reading
Novelists and politicians
Boston College’s Burns Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies James H. Murphy will present “Novelists and Politicians in 19th-Century Ireland” on Nov. 18 at 4:30 p.m. in the Thompson Room of Burns Library. Murphy is a leading scholar of 19th-century Ireland who has authored, or … Continue reading
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Tagged BC Libraries, Center for Irish Programs, Ireland, Irish Studies
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#WeWereBC
A new exhibition on display this fall in Stokes Hall chronicles the first 100 years of Boston College’s history, a period during which a small, urban, day school for boys developed into a sprawling, suburban university serving a largely residential and coeducational … Continue reading
Dubliners Bookshelf
Department of English doctoral student Andrew Kuhn has edited Dubliners Bookshelf, a digital exploration into the books of James Joyce’s Dubliners. The website collects and organizes texts cited in Joyce’s short story collection, including Walter Scott’s The Abbot, Lord Byron’s Poems, and the Maynooth … Continue reading
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Tagged BC Libraries, Center for Irish Programs, English Department, Irish Studies
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BC Libraries features faculty authors
Boston College Libraries has recently featured three professors who published books last year in the fields of art, management and Irish politics. In Text and Image in Medieval Persian Art (Edinburgh University Press), Calderwood Professor of Islamic and Asian Art Sheila Blair presents … Continue reading
A look at trade
Boston College Professor of Political Science David Deese is the editor of Handbook of the International Political Economy of Trade, which brings together leading researchers and writers from different countries to highlight the most important and promising research and policy questions regarding … Continue reading
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Tagged BC Libraries, business, Political Science department, politics
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Journalism—The First Draft of History?
John Horgan, the Burns Library Visiting Scholar, will give a public lecture Nov. 19 at 4:30 p.m. on “Journalism—The First Draft of History?” Typically treated by historians as a secondary source—and not necessarily a reliable one—journalism is now being studied … Continue reading
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Tagged BC Libraries, Center for Irish Programs, Ireland, journalism, media
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Talk of the town: Richardson’s book on the GOP
To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party (Basic Books, 2014) by Professor of History Heather Cox Richardson (cited in BC Bookmarks on 9/17) has received a lot of attention this election season. Here is a sampling of some of the … Continue reading
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Tagged BC Libraries, government, History Department, politics
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Book art by Barbara Adams Hebard
Two book bindings by Burns Library Conservator Barbara Adams Hebard are on display at 23 Sandy Gallery, a fine art gallery in Portland, Oregon. Hebard’s work is part of Showcase 16, an exhibition of members of the Northwest Chapter of the Guild of … Continue reading
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