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November 20, 2018
The Los Angeles Review of Books recently featured Professor Denise Y. Ho’s 2018 publication, Curating Revolution: Politics on Display in Mao’s China.  Viewing the book...
November 19, 2018
Yale seniors Rayan A.R. Alsemeiry, Eren Orbey, and history major, Riley S. Tillitt will head to Oxford University following graduation as Rhodes Scholars representing the...
November 15, 2018
David C. Engerman, newly named to the Leitner International Interdisciplinary Professorship, is a scholar of 20th-century international history. Building on his dual training...
November 5, 2018
“In the introduction to Frederick Douglass’s second autobiography, “My Bondage and My Freedom,” published in 1855, his friend James McCune Smith wrote that if a stranger...
November 1, 2018
Abbas Amanat, the William Graham Sumner Professor of History at Yale, poured decades of research into “Iran: A Modern History,” his new book charting five centuries of...
October 31, 2018
Carlos Eire has won the biannual Yale University Press Jaroslav Pelikan Prize for his book Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450-1650. The prize is awarded by Yale...
October 26, 2018
Three Yale faculty members — Anne Eller and William Rankin in the Department of History and Anna Zayaruznaya in the Department of Music — were awarded the 2018 Samuel and...