NEW YORK (June 6, 2019) – A Long Way from Home: The Untold Story of Baseball’s Desegregation produced by award-winning media company Hammer and Nail Productions has...
Ed Rugemer’s recent book Slave Law and the Politics of Resistance in the Early Atlantic World has won the Jerry H. Bentley Book Prize from the World History Association...
On D-Day, June 6, 1944, more than 150,000 American, British, and Canadian forces traveled across the England Channel and landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of...
Yale historian Mark Peterson believes that history is best told by abiding by the Golden Rule.
The accurate representation of the past is “a kind of moral science,” says...
Long before there was a play that made Founding Father Alexander Hamilton a household name and an American hero of sorts, a 14-year-old girl took an interest in Hamilton as a...
In the spirit of Willard Hurst’s own work, the Hurst Prize is given to the best work in socio-legal history. The field of socio-legal history is broadly defined to include...
In April 2019, the faculty of the Yale Department of History voted to eliminate the department’s use of the Graduate Record Exam (GRE) in graduate admissions. In doing so, we...
