Stories about "Humanities and history"
Then and Now: Vintage George French campus images (then) and gorgeous fall colors (now)
Friday, October 25, 2024 4:02 pm
This edition of Then and Now presents early 20th-century Bates images by famed Maine photographer George French, Class of 1908, and images taken this week during the waning days of a gorgeous fall foliage season.
Faculty in the News: Joe Hall corrects and deepens the Native, pre-colonist history of two Maine downtown landmarks
Friday, August 23, 2024 11:41 am
History professor Joe Hall uses his faculty expertise to help deepen the historical record about how two landmarks in Brunswick, Maine, came to be.
Picture Story: Baccalaureate 2024, and a Bates class that found its common humanity
Friday, May 31, 2024 12:33 pm
This immersive photographic display captures Bates' distinctive Baccalaureate Service. Far from serious or somber, it is a "celebration that is particular to each graduating class," said President Garry W. Jenkins.
Refusing to let the killers have the last word, survivors of the genocide in Rwanda share their story with Bates students
Friday, March 29, 2024 5:00 am
Three survivors of the 1994 Rwandan genocide visited with Bates students this week, sharing how their stories of survival and reconciliation ensure that the killers do not "have the last word.”
Solidarity, empathy, and political agendas: Bates professor explains how and why Irish famine relief ‘went viral’
Friday, March 15, 2024 1:00 pm
Anelise Hanson Shrout's new book about Ireland’s Great Famine documents the first instance of large-scale international philanthropy — and the reasons behind it.
What It Took: A childhood hobby creates community, a fun honors thesis, and me time for Grace Acton ’24
Friday, March 1, 2024 1:00 pm
At high risk for COVID, Grace Acton arrived at Bates during the height of the pandemic. By embracing a childhood hobby of sewing, she found mentors, community, and academic fulfillment.
From Lake Andrews to 17th-century Japan, two student-built boats now part of TV series Shōgun
Tuesday, February 27, 2024 4:41 am
Two traditional Japanese river boats, hand-crafted by Bates students and launched into Lake Andrews five years ago, are part of the historical re-creation of feudal Japan for the TV adaptation of Shōgun, which debuted this week on FX.
Hilarious and provocative, ‘The Thanksgiving Play’ is a Bates production that ‘has to be done’
Thursday, November 9, 2023 12:39 pm
To help Bates student actors navigate the fast-moving satire The Thanksgiving Play, director Tim Dugan reached out to Native American experts on campus and in Maine to join the creative team.
New poems by Myronn Hardy explore exile and return to America, cataclysm and possibility
Friday, October 6, 2023 2:19 pm
Myronn Hardy's new collection of poetry speaks to exile and return, and a moment in America in which potential cataclysm exists alongside possibility and change.
From Bates history: Granite from Mount David and a prince from Liberia
Friday, May 12, 2023 11:34 am
A few items from the Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library and elsewhere on campus, and our thoughts about what they are and mean.