John Brown Russwurm (1826), editor and African colonizationist, was Bowdoin's first African American graduate and the third African American to graduate from any US college. The old quip that "the ...

On May 5, 1964, Bayard Rustin stepped before a packed house at the Pickard Theater at Bowdoin College. Rustin was a gay, 52-year-old civil rights ... Jr. The State of Maine was born in a great ...

commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau; among the founders of Howard University (1850) Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Civil War general; recipient of the Medal of Honor; thirty-second governor of Maine; ...

Newsmakers and distinguished experts, performances by invited musicians and other artists, discussions about faculty research—Bowdoin live event recordings and other presentations are available on ...

An academic by training, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain set aside theology for the art of war, fighting from ... to serve as both governor of Maine and president of Bowdoin College.