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January 10, 2022
Ned Blackhawk, an expert on the history of indigenous people in North America, has been appointed the Howard R. Lamar Professor of History and of American Studies, effective...
January 3, 2022
Jonathan Spence ’65 Ph.D., Sterling Professor Emeritus of History, whose scholarship shaped the field of China studies for half a century, died Dec. 25 at home in West Haven...
December 8, 2021
Yale History invites applications for Cassius Marcellus Clay Postdoctoral Associates in Public Humanities and history of sexuality in the U.S.
November 22, 2021
Four Yale seniors — three from the United States and one from Canada — have been selected as Rhodes Scholars, one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious academic awards...
November 11, 2021
Jennifer Klein, whose groundbreaking work in history is focused on U.S. labor, care, social policy, and economic security, has been appointed the Bradford Durfee Professor of...
November 10, 2021
Andrey V. Ivanov (PhD 2012) wins the Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies Association’s 2021 Marc Raeff Book Prize for his book: A Spiritual Revolution: The Impact of...
October 20, 2021
The Yale History podcast is a new project at the History Department at Yale University that will present a series of interviews with historians from our department on a wide...