April 2015

Africa

The first human came from Africa, Courses in the field examine the birth of world religions, the slave trade, the rise and fall of great empires, the intellectual production of antiquity, commodities that affect all our lives, the rise of global political movements and much more. Some students choose to concentrate on Africa.

Latin America

The Latin America regional pathway explores the entangled histories of the Americas, from pre-Columbian times through the present.  Through often fragmentary and conflicting sources, we consider tales of environmental transformation and spiritual, political, and military contests both before and after European contact, from the central Mexican valley to Andean highlands.

Asia

The site of the world’s oldest complex societies, Asia is also home to the globe’s most modern cities: Shanghai, Tokyo, Bangalore, among others. Yale’s history department has been teaching about Asia for more than a century and is one of the most established programs in the country. In the Asia pathway you can choose to focus on South Asia, Southeast Asia, or East Asia – or perhaps a single country, whether India or Pakistan, Vietnam or Cambodia, or China or Japan.

Europe

Europe is the second smallest continent but has experienced a long, varied, and rich history that reaches from the Caucasus to Iceland, from the gulags of Archangelsk to the rock of Gibraltar. Over millennia, European history developed in exciting and sometimes unexpected ways as forces of unification (Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, the papacy, Charlemagne, Napoleon, Hitler, the European Union, and many more) struggled with the pressures of fragmentation (nationalism, Vikings and other barbarians, heretics and reformers, rebels and revolutionaries, and the Euro crisis).

United States

Americans tell many competing stories about the past. Historians have described the United States as a land of progress and of exploitation, of democracy and of capitalism, a melting pot and a site of racial conflict—sometimes all at the same time. In the U.S. regional track, students engage critically with these grand narratives while acquiring a deep knowledge of North American history. They also learn the research and writing skills to make unique and often pioneering contributions through major research projects.

2016-2017 History Department Courses

History courses at Yale take three forms: lecture courses, open to all undergraduates; freshman seminars, open only to first-year students; and departmental seminars, open to sophomores, juniors, and seniors.
 
Course numbers in History denote regions of the world rather than degree of difficulty. 100-level classes are U.S. history; 200-level are European history; 300-level courses include Africa, Asia, Latin America, and other areas of the world; 400-level classes are global and cover many world regions simultaneously. 
 

"Mobile Subjects: Place-making and Cultural Citizenship," The Cassius Marcellus Clay Postdoctoral Fellowship Lectures

Mobile Subjects: Place-making and Cultural Citizenship
 
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
4:00 pm
Hall of Graduate Studies, Room 211
320 York Street, New Haven, CT
 
Mobilizing Racial Formation in Metropolitan Space: Examining the Mobilities Turn through 20th-Century Los Angeles
Genevieve Carpio
Clay Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration