Nina Silber

Cognoscenti contributor

Nina Silber, professor and chair of the history department at Boston University, has written extensively on the U.S. Civil War and its afterlife. Her latest book is “This War Ain’t Over: Fighting the Civil War in New Deal America” (Chapel Hill, 2018).

Recently published

The BU Mascot Rhett on February 3, 2015 at the TD Garden in Boston, Mass. (Fred Kfoury III/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

Don't Think Racism Is Baked Into Our Culture? Just Look At BU's Beloved Mascot, Rhett The Terrier

How did a progressive-thinking northern university end up with a mascot named for a character from one of the most successful pro-Confederate, and racist, romances in American culture?

Cognoscenti

Jul 7, 2020