A concert. A ferris wheel. A slide. A sack race. Lots of food. Horses. More music. Oh, and fireworks! Check out all the photos from the Bicentennial Party.
Nancy Pick '83 and three research assistants spent years collecting stories for Eye Mind Heart: A View of Amherst College at 200. Join the author and Michael Harmon '16, Constance Holden '15 and Matthew Randolph '16 for tales from the making of the book.
Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic Blair Kamin '79, P'15, discusses how the Great New England Hurricane of 1938 and World War II led to a profound reorientation of Amherst’s hilltop campus.
Watch this virtual panel on LGBTQIA+ community activism and organizing at Amherst and beyond, and click here to watch the documentary Invisible No More: A Queer & Trans History at Amherst College (2017).
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Learn about the original 2015 Amherst Uprising, and watch past events below.
Speakers: Louise Atadja ’16, Prof. Sony Coráñez Bolton, Sarah Bunnell, Nicole Chung ’22 Kristen Greenland, Prof. Sheila Jaswal, Megan Lyster, Gaby Mayer ’16, Prof. Leah Schmalzbauer, Sanyu Takirambudde ’18
This conversation between Amherst Uprising alumni begins with reflection on the fifth anniversary and the digital website and continues towards present-day challenges of diversity, equity, and inclusion at and outside the College.
Dr. Stefan Bradley, author of Upending the Ivory Tower: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Ivy League, in conversation with Amherst College student activists Jeremy Thomas '21 and Kyndall Ashe '18.
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In 2018, on the eve of their graduation, the three friends who sparked the transformative campus protest of 2015 shared their thoughts.
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This 2019 article describes how a Mellon fellowship is recruiting and mentoring Amherst students to become professors--and how this effort is one legacy of the Amherst Uprising.
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Cullen Murphy '74, then chair of the College's board of trustees, reflected in 2016 on the Uprising, the liberal arts and the aspirational idea of home.
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Professor Sheila Jaswal examines her experiences with the Amherst Uprising and what this "transformative moment of reckoning" means for STEM education at the College.