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May 22, 2026
Daniel Graves PhD ’26 (Classics and History) received the university’s John Addison Porter Prize for his dissertation on Thomas Jefferson and the intellectual life of the...
May 7, 2026
How the West Became Antisemitic: Jews and the Formation of Europe, 800–1500by Ivan G. Marcuswas a 2025 finalist for the American Academy of Religion (AAR) Award for...
April 23, 2026
Greg Grandin, Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor of History, has been awarded the 2026 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award by the Phi Beta Kappa Society for his latest book,...
April 21, 2026
For a new book, Yale historian Beverly Gage explores 250 years of American history by traveling to 300 historical sites in 19 states across the U.S. 
April 13, 2026
Brendan A. Shanahan’s award-winning book reveals how state-level policies shaped the meaning of citizenship in the United States and continue to inform today’s debates over...
April 2, 2026
“América First” explores the varied and formative roles the Americas–from Greenland to Patagonia–played, and continue to play, in the construction of US global power, from...
March 19, 2026
Freedman, Chester D. Tripp Professor of History, has been awarded the 39th Joan B. Cendrós International Prize for his lifetime contributions to the study of Catalonia’...