On D-Day, June 6, 1944, more than 150,000 American, British, and Canadian forces traveled across the England Channel and landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of...
Yale historian Mark Peterson believes that history is best told by abiding by the Golden Rule.
The accurate representation of the past is “a kind of moral science,” says...
Long before there was a play that made Founding Father Alexander Hamilton a household name and an American hero of sorts, a 14-year-old girl took an interest in Hamilton as a...
In the spirit of Willard Hurst’s own work, the Hurst Prize is given to the best work in socio-legal history. The field of socio-legal history is broadly defined to include...
In April 2019, the faculty of the Yale Department of History voted to eliminate the department’s use of the Graduate Record Exam (GRE) in graduate admissions. In doing so, we...
The following History graduate students were awarded Yale and department prizes this commencement weekend. Congratulations to all of our outstanding students! See below for...
The History Department awarded the following students with senior essay prizes at a ceremony in Rosenfeld Hall on Friday, May 17th. Read more about the prizes here.
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