History

History

WWJD?

Who first asked the question: What Would Jesus Do? Hint: he went to Brown.

History

No Bonfires, Please

Archibald "Archie" Delany spent a lot of his time preventing students from burning down the campus.

History

A vintage photograph of a bear in a stroller, from 1948.

Ursus Brownicus

In the old days, bears were not always volunteers.

History

Photo of David Kertzer ’69

Pope Addict

David Kertzer ’69 has attracted Steven Spielberg with his sagas of papal drama

History

Photograph of Norman Eisen ’85 crossing a street in Washington D.C.

House Secrets

Twentieth-century history told through the inhabitants of a Prague mansion

History

Bathsheba Demuth in Rhode Island

Unfrozen

Professor Bathsheba Demuth on the environment and dog-mushing in the Yukon.

Humanities & Culture

Mark Gillen ’77 and his wife, Delmafe Festin, standing at the Manila American Cemetery between stone columns

Set in Stone

Undertaking a huge restoration project in the Philippines

Humanities & Culture

Image from one of the board games

Big Game Hunting

One family’s passion for collecting Victorian table games

Humanities & Culture

Illustration of a colorful dragon

Toilet Papers

A course on the history and science of human excrement is not a “gut.”

History

photo of John Brown House at dusk

Northern Aggression

A Brown symposium looks at the key role Rhode Island—and all of New England—played in the slave trade.