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September 7, 2015
  By JENNIFER SCHUESSLER September 7, 2015 NEW HAVEN — When Timothy Snyder’s book “Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin” was published in 2010, it quickly...
September 6, 2015
Click here to view this year’s exciting new courses, including lectures, freshmen seminars, and departmental seminars. Course numbers in the History Department denote regions...
September 2, 2015
History Shopping Party   Please join the Yale History Department for a welcome-back History Shopping Party on Wednesday, September 2 (after the first day of classes), 7-8:30...
August 20, 2015
Stuart Schwartz talks about his newest book, Sea of Storms: A History of Hurricanes, on the American Historical Association blog: Process History.  Click here to read the...
August 4, 2015
Op-Ed by Joanne Freeman: “The Long History of Political Idiocy.”  Read the full article at NYTimes.com.
July 3, 2015
New Haven, CT – Global nonprofit Echoing Green announced that Yale University graduate students Wendell Adjetey and Etienne Mashuli have been awarded a highly competitive and...
June 26, 2015
In a historic civil rights ruling issued today in Obergefell v. Hodges, the U.S. Supreme Court made marriage a right available to all Americans, regardless of sexual...