Sunil Amrith named director of Yale’s MacMillan Center
Amrith, a historian who explores the intersection of human migration and global environmental history, will begin his new role on March 1.
February 2025
The Holy Alliance: Isaac Nakhimovsky on the history of liberalism and federal politics
Nakhimovsky, Associate Professor of History and Humanities, discusses the surprising history of a nineteenth-century political project.
The Wire: "The Education of Manmohan Singh" by David Engerman
As accolades for Manmohan Singh pour in after his death on December 26, it is worth considering the experiences that prepared him for his star turn as finance minister in 1991 and his back-to-back terms as prime minister, 2004-2014. After all, he himself had reminded us of his past in his everyday appearance; he usually sported a turban of Cambridge blue, which served as a reminder of his intellectual roots.
Dissent: "Noblesse Without Oblige" by Vanessa Ogle
The super-rich opt out of the social contract by picking and choosing which laws apply to them, whether in offshore tax havens or at home.
African and African Diaspora History Working Group
The African and African Diaspora History Working Group at the Department of History, Yale University brings together scholars interested in the continent’s history, as well as those working on histories of the long, contested and interwoven relationship between the continent and peoples of African descent worldwide.