News

April 8, 2015
Read Prof. David Blight’s piece “The Civil War Isn’t Over” at TheAtlantic.com.
March 30, 2015
Fabian Drixler has been awarded the John Whitney Hall Book Prize for Mabiki: Infanticide and Population Growth in Eastern Japan, 1660-1950, published by the University of...
March 27, 2015
Professor George Chauncey prepared the amicus brief on the history of antigay discrimination which the Organization of American Historians submitted to the Supreme Court in...
March 23, 2015
Paola Bertucci has been awarded the James L. Clifford Prize by the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies for her article “Enlightened Secrets: Silk, Intelligent...
March 16, 2015
A new miniseries investigating the life of Jesus currently airing on CNN features Yale History and Classics Professor Noel Lenski. Lenski will appear in the fifth episode,...
March 13, 2015
Congratulations to Yale Sterling Professor of History Emeritus and Gilder Lehrman Center Founding Director David Brion Davis, who last night won the National Book Critics...
March 6, 2015
Two alterations to the history major represent the most significant change to the History Department in a generation, according to History Director of Undergraduate Studies...