April 2025

Grad students Martha Guerrero Badillo and Marcus Yee awarded Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowships

The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is pleased to announce the 2025 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellows, made possible by the generous support of the Mellon Foundation.

Ned Blackhawk one of eight Yale scholars elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Eight Yale faculty members are among the nearly 250 leaders elected as new members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the academy announced this week.

Historian Carlos Eire comments on the upcoming papal election

Who Chooses the Next Pope—and Who Chose Them?

The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America

In 1922, Charles Garland, a young idealist, rejected a million-dollar inheritance, opting instead to invest in a future where radical ideas like economic equality and social justice could flourish. Over the next two decades, the Garland Fund, though dwarfed by the charitable foundations of industrial titans like Carnegie and Rockefeller, would become a crucible for progressive thought.

America, América: A New History of the New World

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, the first comprehensive history of the Western Hemisphere, a sweeping five-century narrative of North and South America that redefines our understanding of both.

“America at 250”: Yale history professors confront American identity in one-time-only course

Professors Beverly Gage, Joanne Freeman and David Blight will tackle the entirety of American history in the class dedicated to the 250th anniversary of the independence.

Sunil Amrith is the 2025 recipient of the Toynbee Prize

The Toynbee Prize Foundation’s Board of Trustees is pleased to announce that the 2025 recipient of the Toynbee Prize is Sunil Amrith. Amrith is the Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History at Yale University, with a secondary appointment as Professor at the Yale School of the Environment. He has been awarded the Toynbee Prize for his exceptional work on the movement of peoples as shaped by environmental forces, work that has brought the regions of South/Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean to the center of global historical scholarship.

NYT Opinion: "Trump Cannot Win His War on History" by David Blight

On Thursday President Trump issued an executive order, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.”

In Mr. Trump’s customary bluster, the order bursts with accusations against unnamed persons who are presumably my fellow historians and museum curators for our “concerted and widespread effort to rewrite our nation’s history.”