September 2018
Joseph Manning wins major NSF grant to study climate change, human history link
A Yale-led project examining the link between explosive volcanic eruptions and the annual Nile river summer flooding in antiquity has received an award from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Paola Bertucci's book, "Artisanal Enlightenment: Science and the Mechanical Arts in Old Regime France," is the second-prize winner of the 2018 John Pickstone Prize
Paola Bertucci’s book Artisanal Enlightenment: Science and the Mechanical Arts in Old Regime France (YaleUniversity Press, 2017) is the second-prize winner of the 2018 John Pickstone Prize, awarded by the British Society for the History of Science. The prize is awarded every two years for the best scholarly book in the history of science and medicine in English.
The Unlearned Lesson of Hurricane Maria: A Conversation with Stuart Schwartz via Edge Effects
Last week the Puerto Rican government announced the findings of an independent study of the deaths resulting from Hurricane Maria. The official death toll had sat at 64 for months after the September 2017 storm. Now, according to researchers at George Washington University, 2,975 people are believed to have perished, over 1,100 more than died in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
Samuel Moyn featured in a podcast with the New Books Network
Professor Samuel Moyn was featured in a podcast with the New Books Network. Zeb Larson of The Ohio State University, writes:
New York Times Op-Ed: "The Violence at the Heart of Our Politics" by Joanne Freeman
Mike Huckabee waxed historic this week while denouncing protesters who interrupted Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings. “Clear the room or start caning them when they open their yaps!” he tweeted, making a backhanded reference to the most famous caning in American history: the 1856 attack on Senator Charles Sumner. Outraged by one of Sumner’s antislavery speeches, Preston Brooks of South Carolina brutally beat him to the ground in the Senate chamber a few days later, stopping only when his cane broke.