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May 6, 2020
Professor John Fabian Witt ’99 has produced a series of short Zoom lectures on the legal history of epidemics and infectious diseases in the U.S. that are accessible to the...
May 5, 2020
Greg Grandin ’99 Ph.D., professor of history in the Faculty of Arts & Sciences, has won a Pulitzer Prize in the general nonfiction category for his book “The End of the...
May 5, 2020
GLC Director David W. Blight talks with Assistant Professor Carolyn Roberts on Race, Health, and Medicine during the COVID 19 global pandemic.
April 29, 2020
Congratulations to the winners of the 2020 Manuscripts and Archives Diane Kaplan Memorial Senior Essay Prize! Steven Rome (Grace Hopper College). The Apostle of Dissent: J....
April 29, 2020
In his book, Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present, Yale medical historian Frank Snowden explores how, for centuries, disease outbreaks have transformed...
April 27, 2020
Regina Grace Kunzel, newly named as the Larned Professor of History and of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, is an historian of gender and sexuality in the 20th-century...
April 21, 2020
Lauren Benton, recently named as the Barton M. Biggs Professor of History, is a comparative and world historian whose research focuses on law in European empires, the history...