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September 25, 2017
Professor David Blight sat down with CBS Sunday Morning’s Mo Rocca to discuss the debate over tearing down Confederate monuments.  Check out the video below or visit...
September 22, 2017
ANGELA XIAO SEP 22, 2017 Beginning this fall, Yale’s History Department is introducing a sequence of undergraduate lecture classes that, instead of focusing on a specific...
September 20, 2017
Rachel Treisman Sep 20, 2017 In its first year, the 320 York Humanities Programming Endowment is funding three interdisciplinary projects that aim to bring together students...
September 18, 2017
This academic year the History Department welcomes four new full-time faculty members, Deborah Coen (History of Science and Medicine), Samuel Moyn (Law), Sergei Antonov (...
September 7, 2017
In advance of the sesquicentennial in 2018 of the 1868 Meiji Restoration, Professor Daniel Botsman is co-organizing one of three international conferences to mark the...
September 6, 2017
Professor Anne Eller and fellow researchers Erin Zavitz (University of Montana), Lewis Clormeus (l’Université d’État d’Haiti) and Claire Payton (Duke) were...
September 5, 2017
In 2014, Russian historian Andrei Zubov was fired from his Moscow professorship for comparing Putin’s annexation of Crimea to Hitler’s annexation of the Sudetenland.1 Two...