05/23/2022
Please join us in celebrating our History Honors Students this Thursday.
Bowdoin College Department of History
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Welcome to the Bowdoin College Department of History. Stay tuned for updates on events, student work, and what our faculty is up to!
This page is a space for alumni to reconnect with the department and current students as well as for the department to provide updates about recent events at Bowdoin.The major and minor in History provide students not simply with a "useable past," but also with the skills to cope with an ever-changing world. The value of a degree in history is evident in the wide range of occupations our graduates
05/23/2022
05/11/2022
Celebrating an amazing 40 years at Bowdoin. We will miss you Professor McMahon! ❤️
04/22/2022
Admitted Students day- Welcome Class of 2026! Shout out to Catherine Crouch, Liat Tesfazgi and Professor Herrlinger for talking about the History major with these new Polar Bears!
10/14/2021
Hats Off for the History of Science: Rethinking the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Claims about the Lavoisier Portrait By Meghan Roberts The Metropolitan Museum of Art began September with a bang. After three years of examination by conservation scientists, they announced that they had discovered secrets lurking un…
10/14/2021
Check out what Bowdoin History Professors have been up to!
https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/november-2021/playing-with-the-past-teaching-slavery-with-board-games?fbclid=IwAR36FgiumffSsO6mAmSrJnzVAQ78sUEwijWMS9pG4xXSDWqhwEI1r0H5Dl8
Playing with the Past: Teaching Slavery with Board Games Board games encourage history students to imagine changing historical outcomes and discuss counterfactuality and contingency, while covering the entire range of Bloom’s taxonomy of learning.
05/23/2020
03/02/2020
Wednesday 3:30 at the Museum of Art! Come check out what Professor Rael’s class has been exploring this semester!
05/03/2019
Beloved Professor of History Allen Wells retires after 31 years – The Bowdoin Orient On Allen Wells’ final day of teaching last spring, students and colleagues packed into his classroom in Kanbar Hall, surprising the Roger Howell, Jr. Professor of History with flowers and teary…
02/08/2019
Our annual Golz lecture is coming up! Join us on Wednesday, February 20 for Thundersticks: Fi****ms and the Violent Transformation of North America. 7:30 Kresge.
11/26/2018
Join us next Monday at 7:30 in Kresge with Professor Hlonipha Mokoena!
10/15/2018
Join us on Friday October 26 for this year's Kemp Symposium honoring Professor of History and Latin American Studies Allen Wells, who will retire after this year after three decades at Bowdoin.
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