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November 29, 2023
In the book, which won the 2023 Victor Turner Prize, Yale’s Alan Mikhail offers an inside look at the state bureaucracy of Egypt on the eve of revolution.
November 16, 2023
Historian Ned Blackhawk’s sweeping volume, which recognizes the centrality of Native Americans in U.S. history, won the National Book Award in nonfiction.
October 24, 2023
Marco Ramos, Assistant Professor in the History of Medicine and Department of Psychiatry, joined Dan HoSang, Associate Professor of Ethnicity Race & Migration and of...
October 4, 2023
Filmmaker Craig Bettendorf first heard of John Boswell, an openly gay Yale professor and a pioneer of LGBTQ studies, from an unlikely source: an evangelical Christian talk...
August 30, 2023
Bettyann Kevles, an award-winning author who was a senior lecturer in Yale’s Department of History and an affiliate of the Program in the History of Science and Medicine,...
August 22, 2023
In each month of the academic year, the Yale Library Book Talk series features an expert author who will discuss a newly released book of fiction or nonfiction. This fall...
July 13, 2023
In its recent decision, Haaland v. Brackeen, the United State Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), a law that has been used to...