History

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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
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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
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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.”
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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.
History
Matthew Carrano ’91 grins alongside some dinosaur teeth

Mr. Dinosaur

Paleontologist Matthew Carrano ’91 and the Smithsonian’s “Deep Time” exhibit. 
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Photograph of John F. Kennedy Jr. ’83 as a child with his grandmother

An American Tragedy

A new book chronicles the life of John F. Kennedy ’83
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illustration of student being arrested at a demonstration

Fighting for Their Future

Lauren Maunus ’19 and Emma Bouton ’20 have been on the front lines of the growing youth environmental movement.
The Arts
Image of books by Karen Dukess ’84, Akemi Johnson ’04, and Susan Rebecca White ’99

Fresh Ink

Books by Karen Dukess ’84, Akemi Johnson ’04, and Susan Rebecca White ’99
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Jessica Pearce Rotondi

Family Secrets

In a new book, Jessica Pearce Rotondi ’07 pieces together the decades-long search for her uncle gone missing in Vietnam.
History
portrait of John M. Barry ’68

Lessons from 1918

An expert on last century’s influenza pandemic shares what history could have told us about COVID-19... if we’d been willing to listen.
History
detail of a photo of Prof Mermel's door showing a postcard featuring a gargoyle

The 30-Year Warning

A med school professor has been talking pandemic preparedness for decades
History
Illustration of a riot scene

NOW!

Brown alums on this year’s nationwide demands for racial justice & the urgent need for lasting change
History
Portrait of Edward Ball ’82

Under the Hood

The descendant of a Klansman probes the racial violence in his family background to expose larger truths about the history of white America.
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