January 2023
My Egypt Archive: A Conversation with Alan Mikhail
In My Egypt Archive, Alan Mikhail provides an engaging on-the-ground account of the everyday authoritarianism that produced the Arab Spring in Egypt. Here, Mikhail talks to us about his continued interest in the history of bureaucracies and the importance of sound in the archive.
Ned Blackhawk & Beverly Gage featured in Washington Post's "Books to Read in 2023"
With 2022 behind us, it’s time to look ahead to what we’ll be reading in the new year. Below, we’ve organized forthcoming releases by category and included a few suggestions for what you might enjoy based on your favorite reading experiences of recent times. Publishers’ fall schedules will come into clearer view as the year progresses, so this list leans heavily on the first half of 2023. We’d be eager to hear what you’re looking forward to most, whether it’s on this list or not. Here’s to another 12 months of reading pleasure.
NY Times: "It’s Tempting to Laugh at McCarthy’s Struggles, but History Shows That This Type of Chaos Is Not a Joke" by Joanne Freeman
In recent days, we’ve watched congressional Republicans reap the whirlwind. In campaigning for the 2022 midterm elections, the G.O.P. rode a wave of extremism, saying little about the politics of hate and denial practiced by some of its candidates in an effort to capture votes.
New Yale faculty members, in their own words
In a video, eight new faculty members discuss their scholarship, their passion for teaching, and why they decided to come to Yale.
Each year, dozens of new faculty members join the Yale community. In this video, eight scholars who recently arrived on campus discuss their scholarship, their passion for teaching, and the reasons they decided to come to Yale.
In ‘G-Man,’ Yale historian takes a nuanced look at caricatured FBI director
For nearly a half-century, J. Edgar Hoover was director of the FBI or its precursor. A rabid anti-Communist now known for his own law-breaking — specifically, for his secret surveillance of American citizens — he is often caricatured as a bulldog.