Stories about "Margaret Creighton"
An inside look at the ‘invention’ of New England with Victoria Wyeth ’01
Wednesday, November 9, 2022 3:46 pm
In Wasilla, Alaska, this summer, incoming Bates student Karsten Stiner ’26 looked…
Removing Confederate monuments is only a starting point, Bates panelists say
Thursday, September 21, 2017 1:46 pm
Removing monuments to Confederate leaders means little without an understanding of why they were created, how racism persists today, and how to move forward.
Bates in the News: Dec. 9, 2016
Thursday, December 8, 2016 4:27 pm
Bates College stands firmly by the DACA program, says President Spencer. Plus, Jason Castro is a "Scientist to Watch" and New York Times reviews an alum as a hip-hop Othello.
Bates in the News: Nov. 11, 2016
Friday, November 11, 2016 8:38 am
Bates-related election news include local and national coverage of an attempt to discourage Bates students from voting.
Bates in the News: Oct. 14, 2016
Friday, October 14, 2016 8:00 am
The news media tells stories about coastal research, Bates parents of a transgender child, Val Smith '75's second year as Swarthmore president, and teaching 9/11 to students who don't remember it.
Picture story: Visiting Quebec City and Lewiston, learning to think like a historian
Friday, September 2, 2016 12:19 pm
Studying Quebec-to-Lewiston migration, students in a Short Term course learned the distinctive ways that historians “think and approach subject matter.”
Food in the Bates curriculum: A tasting menu
Friday, April 17, 2009 4:07 pm
You eat where you are: In her course “Back East, Down South,…
'Red Sox Nation' faces competition from a likely source
Friday, March 6, 2009 12:42 pm
"Red Sox Nation," a course taught by Professor of History Margaret Creighton, uses the Olde Towne Team to discuss issues like race, class and gender in America.
Short Term's a time for rigor, research…and Red Sox
Thursday, April 14, 2005 10:04 am
Short Term at Bates is known among students for pressure-cooker courses like "Cellular and Molecular Biology," aka "Cell Hell," and "Introduction to Abstraction," better known as "Math Camp." But the academic offerings during these five weeks of spring have a reputation not only for rigor but for topicality, adventurousness and even, dare we say, for fun. And Short Term units new in 2005 are no exceptions.