New documentary film by Stanley Nelson: “The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution,” features Yale History professor Beverly Gage and Yale Law and African American Studies professor Kathleen Cleaver. Click through the links below to find out more about the film.
Climate & History Initiative Series:
“Anthropogenic and Climate Forcing of Maya Collapse”
Prof. Martin Medina-Elizalde (Amherst College)
Thursday Feb 19 3.30 pm 319 Kroon Hall
This conference aims to complicate conventional timelines and historiography in order to provoke debate about the continuity and rupture of social, political, and labor forms in the hemisphere during the nineteenth century. It seeks, furthermore, to pause, consider, and interrogate the distortions wrought by nationally-framed accounts, even as it also recognizes claims-making and citizenship discourses in and beyond the nation.
“Amid national discussion decrying the decline of the humanities, Yale’s History Department is on the rise.
According to the director of undergraduate studies for the department, Beverly Gage, the department’s course enrollments are up by roughly 30 percent this year — making them close to the highest the department has seen in the last decade. The number of declared majors, which has been falling in recent years, is also up this semester, she said…”