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August 20, 2020
Russian hackers and internet trolls sought to manipulate American voters throughout the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, as they are doing again in 2020. Their efforts...
August 17, 2020
Historians don’t just study history. We construct it. We puzzle pieces into meanings. Aided by our instincts and experiences, as well as by our research, we make sense of...
August 17, 2020
In 1920, as Americans were preparing to choose their next president, the country — just out of World War I — was still reeling from a flu pandemic that killed nearly 700,000...
August 16, 2020
Those Americans who believe that the Democrats are their best hope for thwarting the rise of authoritarianism must confront a basic question: Given that President Trump...
August 15, 2020
India became independent on August 15, 1947, or did it? Jawaharlal Nehru’s famous speech, ‘tryst with destiny’ delivered on the midnight of August 15, is remembered as the...
August 5, 2020
On August 5th,  Essie Lucky-Barros, our Undergraduate Registrar, celebrated 35 years of service at Yale University. This milestone will officially be celebrated at Yale...
August 3, 2020
Stephen Pitti, Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration (RITM), interviews Matthew Frye Jacobson, William Robertson Coe...