Historians have been busy in recent months, and for good reason. Almost every day brings a stream of political questions from all quarters: Has this happened before? Is it...
Historian Amanda Joyce Hall explains how South Africa’s black press reported on the struggle for racial equality in South Africa and the United States.
A new resource entitled “The Mao Era in Objects” was launched on January 29, 2020 at the University of Oxford’s China Centre. The interactive website features twenty-four...
Rohit De, Marcela Echeverri, and Greta LaFleur were recently awarded the 2019 Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publication or Research.
The prize is...
HIST 276
SPRING 2020
FRANCE SINCE 1871
T/Th 3:30-4:20, 1HTBD WLH 119
Prof. von OSTENFELD-SUSKE
HIST 276 covers the emergence of France, from the massacres of the Paris...
As Rohit De, an assistant professor of history at Yale University, explains in his extraordinary book, A People’s Constitution, the document mattered to its citizens,...
Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain includes a character who is Enlightenment personified. “Our Western heritage is reason – reason, analysis, action, progress!” Settembrini the...