The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America with Timothy Snyder
When: Sunday, June 10, 2018
1:30 PM - 2:45 PM
Where:
May 2018
Jun Yan Chua awarded Alpheus Henry Snow Prize and other honors
Jun Yan Chua graduates summa cum laude with exceptional distinction in his major, History.
Congratulations to our 2017-2018 prize winning undergraduates
The History Department awarded the following students with senior essay prizes at a ceremony in the department on Friday, May 18th. Read more about the prizes here.
Congratulations to our seniors!
Yale historian’s curiosity leads to insight into China’s Cultural Revolution
It was a long-standing curiosity about museums — one that was piqued during a fellowship as a Yale undergraduate — that sparked Denise Y. Ho’s desire to write her new book, “Curating Revolution: Politics on Display in Mao’s China.”
The Nation: "How Mohammed bin Salman Has Transformed Saudi Arabia" by Rosie Bsheer
When Salman ibn Abdulaziz became crown prince of Saudi Arabia on June 18, 2012, there was a palpable sense of anxiety across the country. This had little to do with the usual unease and uncertainty that succession in the kingdom begets. In his 50-odd years as governor of the capital, Riyadh, Salman had built a reputation as a firm, pragmatic, and uncompromising ruler. He commanded fear from both friend and foe.
Congratulations to our 2017-2018 prize winning graduate students
The following History graduate students were awarded Yale and department prizes this commencement weekend. Congratulations to all of our outstanding students! See below for details on the prize winning dissertations and scroll to the end for prize descriptions.
Yale scholar of Cambodia, Ben Kiernan, uncovers rare 19th-century Khmer-language documents
April 2018 marked the 20th anniversary of the death of Pol Pot, the leader of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge, the regime that is responsible for the genocide that in four years took the lives of over 1.5 million people. The genocide is today known as one of the worst human tragedies of the last century.
Congratulations to Julia Mansfield, winner of Nevins Prize and to Max Fraser, finalist for Nevins prize
The 58th annual Allan Nevins Prize has been awarded by the Society of American Historians to Julia P.R. Mansfield for her dissertation, “The Disease of Commerce: Yellow Fever in the Atlantic World, 1793-1805.”
NY Times Magazine: "When Does a Moment Turn Into a 'Movement'? by Beverly Gage
Five or six decades ago, a big crowd meant something big. When 250,000 people gathered for the 1963 March on Washington, or nearly a million showed up for the 1982 anti-nukes rally in Central Park, it symbolized a certain power and legitimacy, a collective coming-of-age. A major protest presented a huge organizational challenge, and pulling one off delivered a potent message: Here was a force to be reckoned with.
History major J. Y. Chua wins Law and Society Association Undergraduate Paper Award
History major J. Y. Chua won the Law and Society Association award for the undergraduate paper that best represents outstanding work in law and society research.
The Strange Career of Gross Indecency: Racial Anxiety and Sexual Politics in Pre-World War II Singapore