News

June 22, 2021
On June 23-25, 2021, the conference “Las venas abiertas de América Latina 50 años después” will analyze and problematize the place of Eduardo Galeano’s most famous book by...
June 15, 2021
This month, the Group of Seven nations agreed to President Biden’s proposal for taxing multinational corporations. The plan asks nations to agree to a corporate tax rate of...
May 23, 2021
Many of our outstanding, graduating History graduate students were awarded Yale and department prizes this academic year. See below for a list of prizes, awards, and...
May 21, 2021
Congratulations to our graduating History majors on their senior essay prizes!  Prize day was celebrated with a virtual ceremony on Friday, May 21, 2021.  Click here to read...
May 20, 2021
In their nominations for this year’s Yale College Teaching Prizes, undergraduate students praised the honored faculty members for not only shining in the classroom but also...
May 12, 2021
For her first book, “From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime,” the historian Elizabeth Hinton spent years digging through government archives, piecing together how...
May 10, 2021
Alan Mikhail, an authority on Middle Eastern history, global history, and histories of empire and the environment, has been appointed the Chace Family Professor of History,...