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November 17, 2025
Three Yale College seniors who have both excelled academically and demonstrated a commitment to social impact have received 2026 Rhodes scholarships, one of the world’s...
October 20, 2025
The Founders were inspired—and threatened—by the independence and self-governance of nations like the Iroquois Confederacy.
October 13, 2025
Matthew Frye Jacobson has been awarded the 2025 Bode-Pearson Prize from the American Studies Association. The most prestigious prize awarded by the American Studies...
October 10, 2025
Sunil Amrith, Henry R. Luce Director of the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, has been awarded the 2025 Dayton Literary Peace Prize...
October 9, 2025
The story of the making of India’s Constitution, as usually told, begins in Delhi. As the clock struck 11 on December 9 1946, the story goes, the Constituent Assembly...
October 8, 2025
Paola Bertucci, professor of history and curator-in-charge of the History of Science and Technology Division of the Yale Peabody Museum, was recently featured on WTNH to...
September 17, 2025
Joanne B. Freeman, who joined the Yale faculty in 1997, is one of the leading historians in the politics and political culture of the revolutionary and early national periods...