As part of our BCC’s Latinx History Month celebrations, the History department is proud to present “Seven Demands: A History of Public Health Justice in the Bronx,” an on-line […]

2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, which guaranteed women the right to vote in the United States.* In honor of the suffrage centennial, Dr. […]

A Bronx Community College Assistant Professor of history will soon be paid to pursue her other great passion: writing about it. Dr. Raquel Otheguy has been awarded a post-doctoral fellowship […]

Raquel Otheguy (Assistant Professor, History) has been named a 2020 National Academy of Education/ Spencer Postdoctoral fellow. This competitive postdoctoral fellowship program supports 30 early [...]

  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 [...]

  Congratulations Class of 2020! You did it — and during one of the toughest semesters of our lifetime. We are so very proud of you all. Good wishes, Faculty and […]

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. […]