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October 4, 2018
It took Yale historian Joanne Freeman 17 years and three worn-out desk chairs to write her latest book, “The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War.”...
September 26, 2018
Abbas Amanat, William Graham Sumner Professor of History at Yale University and Director of the Program in Iranian Studies at the MacMillan Center, has taught and written...
September 24, 2018
A Yale-led project examining the link between explosive volcanic eruptions and the annual Nile river summer flooding in antiquity has received an award from the National...
September 17, 2018
Paola Bertucci’s book Artisanal Enlightenment: Science and the Mechanical Arts in Old Regime France (YaleUniversity Press, 2017) is the second-prize winner of the 2018...
September 7, 2018
Mike Huckabee waxed historic this week while denouncing protesters who interrupted Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings. “Clear the room or start caning them...
September 4, 2018
Professor Samuel Moyn was featured in a podcast with the New Books Network.  Zeb Larson of The Ohio State University, writes:   “In his new book, Not Enough: Human Rights in...
September 4, 2018
Last week the Puerto Rican government announced the findings of an independent study of the deaths resulting from Hurricane Maria. The official death toll had sat at 64 for...