Black Lives Matter. We say their names: George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Ahmaud Arbery. State-sanctioned violence compounded by a lack of access to health care, fresh food, [...]
Ralph Waldo Emerson led the 19th century Transcendentalist movement, emphasizing self-reliance, individual moral choices, harmony with nature, and a philosophy of daily living not unlike 21st [...]
Dr. Robert Wechsler (Adjunct Assistant Professor, History) researched, wrote and curated a New Rochelle Public Library exhibit in February 2020 on the Charles W. Dickerson Fife, Drum and Bugle [...]
In 1856, a free black man named José Moreno did something that shook up Cuba’s newly established system of segregated public schools: He applied for a teaching license. Professor Raquel Alicia [...]
On Friday, February 21, the expertise of Associate Professor Prithi Kanakamedala of BCC’s Department of History was the star of a CBS News New York segment on Black History Month. […]
Dr. Robert Wechsler has worked on an exhibit for New Rochelle Public Library on Troop 16, a segregated Boy Scout troop in New Rochelle that morphed into the Charles W. […]
“I read, I go research a certain section, and then I try to write. I think to some extent you have to do some amount of reading around everything because […]
The Vietnam War was the central political issue of the 1960s and 1970s. This study by Seth Offenbach explains how the conflict shaped modern conservatism. The war caused disputes between […]
“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Amazon’s Emmy-winning comedy series, doesn’t pull its punches. Within the first episode, the show’s titular character — an almost cartoonish 1950s middle-class, [...]
The art and antics of rebellious figures in 1950s American nightlife―from the Beat Generation to eccentric jazz musicians and comedians―have long fascinated fans and scholars alike. In The Rebel [...]
