August 2023

In Memoriam: Bettyann Kevles, award-winning author in Yale’s history department

Bettyann Kevles, an award-winning author who was a senior lecturer in Yale’s Department of History and an affiliate of the Program in the History of Science and Medicine, died on Aug. 18, two days short of her 85^th birthday.

Asia History Working Group

The Asia History Working Group at the Department of History, Yale University seeks to go beyond existing regional and national boundaries that define the study of the continent and condition its research priorities to forge greater dialogue between scholars of the region on themes of common interest. Focusing on both thematic and geographic points of connection and departure, this group serves as a platform for scholars of Asia to find new grounds for conversation and engagement.

Material Contradictions in Mao's China

Liberalism against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times

Yale Library Book Talk series presents a great fall lineup of new nonfiction

In each month of the academic year, the Yale Library Book Talk series features an expert author who will discuss a newly released book of fiction or nonfiction.

This fall season showcases a nonfiction lineup, with book topics ranging from the tumultuous politics of 21st-century Egypt and the unsung histories of Black Civil War surgeons to the life and times of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover and transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau.

Uncertainty in the Empire of Routine: The Administrative Revolution of the Eighteenth-Century Qing State

Declare a Track

To declare a track in the History major please go to the Yale Hub: https://yub.yale.edu/. Once you access Yale Hub, you can select Academics > Declare Major.