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January 18, 2016
Please join the Yale History Department for a Welcome-back History Shopping Party on Monday, January 18th, 7-8:30pm in HGS 211. Open to all undergraduates. Meet & mingle...
January 14, 2016
Carolyn J. Dean, newly named as the Charles J. Stille Professor of History and French, focuses her research on the cultural and intellectual history of modern Europe; the...
November 21, 2015
Three Yale students were chosen to be members of the class of 2016 Rhodes Scholars. Jared C. Milfred, Isaac M. Stanley-Becker, and Mason Y. Ji were among the 32 chosen for...
November 10, 2015
Yale University Professor Ned Blackhawk (History and American Studies) and Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program Executive Director Mary Kathryn Nagle each recently...
October 29, 2015
Halloween — or All Hallows Eve — brings to mind images of ghosts, goblins, and, of course, witches. The history of witches and witchcraft dates as far back as ancient Greece...
October 27, 2015
Bill Rankin receives a Poorvu Family Award for Interdisciplinary Teaching 2015. The Poorvu Family Award was established to recognize and enhance Yale’s strength in...
October 15, 2015
YaleNews spoke with Chitra Ramalingam, a lecturer in the Department of History and the History of Science and Medicine Program; research associate at the Yale Center for...