March 2016

Book launch for Alejandra Dubcovsky's "Informed Power: Communication in the Early American South"

The book launch for Prof. Alejandra Dubcovsky’s “Informed Power: Communication in the Early American South” will take place Tuesday, April 5th at 5:30pm in 401 HGS.

Informed Power maps the intricate, intersecting channels of information exchange in the early American South, exploring how people in the colonial world came into possession of vital knowledge in a region that lacked a regular mail system or a printing press until the 1730s.

“Treasures from Japan” wins 2016 Leab Award from the Association of College & Research Libraries

Treasures from Japan in the Yale University Library, held at the Beinecke Library from January 16 to April 2, 2015 and edited by Daniel V. Botsman, Edward Kamens, Kondō Shigekazu, and Nakamura Haruko, received a 2016 Katharine Kyes Leab and Daniel J. Leab “American Book Prices Current” Exhibition Award from the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS).

Denise Y. Ho in the second part of a conversation on the 50th Anniversary of China’s Cultural Revolution, in the Los Angeles Review of Books

History professor Denise Ho was a participant in a commissioned panel at the American Historical Association’s Annual Meeting in Atlanta.  Here, the chair of the panel (Alexander Cook, UC Berkeley) and the three other panelists (Yiching Wu, The University of Toronto; Daniel Leese (University of Freiburg); and Fabio Lanza (University of Arizona)), present their panel in condensed form.