MIT grapples with early leader’s stance on Native Americans
David Shane Lowry, distinguished fellow in Native American studies at History at MIT, provides a new campus space for Native American student groups.
Posted October 20, 2021
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Muhammad Ali documentary by Ken Burns debuts on PBS, Craig Steven Wilder Consults
Wilder, the Barton L. Weller Professor of History at MIT, joins other leading experts, historians, and writers to provide input on the script and film for the new documentary about Muhammad Ali.
Posted September 23, 2021
HASTS PhD student Rodrigo Ochigame
PhD student Rodrigo Ochigame designs alternative search engines and seeks to disrupt cultural assumptions in their teaching and research.
Posted August 23, 2021
July 4th is Independence Day for two countries. For one it is hollow.
Professor Christopher Capozzola author of “Bound by War: How the United States and the Philippines Built America’s First Pacific Century” featured in the Washington Post.
Posted August 6, 2021
The 1964 Games proclaimed a new Japan
Back in 1964, there was “a sense of Japan in motion and a sense of a country with a future,” said Nagahara, MIT professor of history. Now, it’s “a country that has lost confidence and a country whose political elites feel very intensely that loss of confidence.”
Posted August 6, 2021
Haitian president was fighting to stay in power when he was assassinated
The attack on Jovenel Moïse is just the latest episode in the country's long history of political instability.
Posted August 6, 2021
How the US Could Really Help Haiti by Professor Malick Ghachem
Foreign involvement is inevitable, but the mistakes of the past can be avoided.
Posted July 12, 2021
3 Questions with historian Caley Horan on innovation, risk-sharing, and cultural transformation
Horan recently about her book manuscript, Insurance Era, (now published, University of Chicago Press, 2021) which explores the cultural life of insurance and the role of risk-based thinking in shaping American institutions and daily life during the second half of the 20th century.
Posted June 10, 2021
Anne McCants awarded the Ann Fetter Friedlaender Professorship
Anne begins her professorship on July 1, 2021.
Posted June 8, 2021
Malick Ghachem has been honored with a 2021 Teaching with Digital Technology Award
The Teaching with Digital Technology Awards are student-nominated awards given annually to instructors who have effectively used digital technology to improve teaching and learning at MIT.
Posted June 7, 2021
