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September 2, 2025
Exploring Empire and Resistance: MacMillan Center Awards Yale Faculty Benton and Mukhopadhyay with 2025 International Book Prizes        
August 26, 2025
Three esteemed historians will team up this fall to teach “America at 250: A History” as part of the 2025 DeVane Lecture course, an annual lecture series that is open to the...
August 15, 2025
In a new book, Yale’s David Engerman examines six economists, all from South Asia, who helped shape international development — including efforts to reduce poverty and...
July 23, 2025
Elizabeth Hinton, one of the nation’s leading experts on policing and mass incarceration in the United States, was recently appointed the Class of 1954 Professor of History...
July 2, 2025
This fall, three eminent scholars of U.S. history will explore the nature of American identity in a semester-long series of lectures open to the public.  
June 16, 2025
President Trump’s profound ignorance of American history and the nation’s constitutional traditions has placed us all in great peril. In the past five months, Trump has...
April 29, 2025
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...