Howard Roberts Lamar ’51 Ph.D., a venerable expert on the American West and Sterling Professor Emeritus of History who helped guide Yale through a turbulent period as university president in the early 1990s, died on Feb. 22. He was 99.
“This notion that somehow history is supposed to be employed to make people feel good, it’s disturbing, but it is for some people,” David Blight says. “It’s what’s at stake here.”
How should educators be teaching the history of slavery?
“We have to have an honest history that is honest all the way through, even as it is also cultivating civic bonds and civic connections,” Danielle Allen says.
Yale historian Denise Ho discusses her new co-edited volume on the power of consumer objects to reveal insights into Chinese culture during an era of scarcity.
Jennifer Altehenger and Denise Ho to talk about their new edited volume, Material Contradictions in Mao’s China, published in December 2022 by the University of Washington Press. Our editors have brought together ten chapters or “case studies” by scholars in various disciplines, as well as a theoretical and methodological reflection on materiality, contradiction, and “the socialist uncanny” (by Jonathan Bach) that ends the book.
The Gutenberg Bible is one of the treasures of Yale University’s Beinecke Library — the first book printed with movable type in Europe. Now it has a companion, a much older Japanese scroll made with an earlier form of printing, and one of the oldest known printed objects in the world.
WSHU’s Davis Dunavin spoke with Yale history professor Daniel Botsman, who showed him a scroll covered in tiny Japanese letters.