William Fowler

The whoopie pie — whipped cream or frosting sand­wiched between twin choco­late cakes — has a glo­rious but mud­dled his­tory as a favorite treat throughout the north­eastern United States. Sev­eral … read more »

William Fowler, Dis­tin­guished Pro­fessor of His­tory, exam­ines the intriguing his­tory of the Dec­la­ra­tion of Inde­pen­dence and the Fourth of July.

In the sixth edi­tion of recent fac­ulty books, we high­light works about the Amer­ican Rev­o­lu­tion, the com­plexity of human-​​animal rela­tion­ships, and the impor­tance of cash flow to cor­po­rate decision-​​making.

A North­eastern his­to­rian looks back at a blood­less battle that touched off America’s blood­iest war, 150 years ago today.