News

September 12, 2013
An interview with Fabian Drixler on the New Books Network about the history of infanticide in Japan and its implications for the demographic past and future .
September 8, 2013
Commentary by Professor Paul Sabin appearing in the New York Times, Sunday, September 8, 2013.
August 29, 2013
Keith Wrightson has been honored with the publication of a volume of essays, Remaking English Society: Social Relations and Social Change in Early Modern England, edited by...
August 27, 2013
The history department offers courses in nearly every region, period, and field of the global past. To assist students in choosing courses of particular interest, we have...
August 27, 2013
Professor Timothy Snyder has been awarded the 2013 Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought for his book Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Basic Books/ Random...
August 26, 2013
The Macmillan Center presented international book prizes to works by four Yale faculty members on topics as diverse as the use of idols in ancient Greece, the effect of...
July 15, 2013
Edmund S. Morgan, an award-winning historian who illuminated the intellectual world of the Puritans, explored the paradox of freedom and slavery in colonial Virginia and, in...