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April 11, 2019
At its 50th Annual Meeting, held March 21-23 in Denver, Colorado, the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conferred two book awards to outstanding scholars of the...
April 10, 2019
Five Yale faculty members and affiliates were among 168 scholars, artists, and writers appointed as 2019 Guggenheim Fellows. The fellows, who are appointed by the foundation...
April 1, 2019
Marci Shore is a professor of intellectual history at Yale University. Her last book, The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution, explores the 2014 Maidan...
March 7, 2019
A mammoth biography of Frederick Douglass and a new study of the 17th-century colonial American conflict known as King Philip’s War have won this year’s Bancroft Prize,...
February 19, 2019
David Blight, the 1954 Professor of American History at Yale, was recently honored with the 2019 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize from Gettysburg College and the Gilder Lehrman...
February 15, 2019
Yale senior Fernando Rojas and alumnus Dhruv Nandamudi are among 34 Americans selected as 2019 Gates Cambridge Scholars at the University of Cambridge.
February 14, 2019
Yale senior David Yaffe-Bellany and alumna Amelia Nierenberg ’18 have been selected for the inaugural class of fellows at The New York Times for 2019-2020. The New York Times...