Crystal Feimster, a historian of African-American history, U.S. women’s history, and the American South, has been appointed the next Head of Pierson College.
Beverly Gage’s biography of Hoover draws on documents that were unavailable to previous biographers and offers a more complex portrait of the late FBI director.
Howard Roberts Lamar ’51 Ph.D., a venerable expert on the American West and Sterling Professor Emeritus of History who helped guide Yale through a turbulent period as...
“This notion that somehow history is supposed to be employed to make people feel good, it’s disturbing, but it is for some people,” David Blight says. “It’s what...
Teaching a lecture class on Ukrainian history last fall, I felt a touch of the surreal. The war in Ukraine had been going on for half a year when I began. A nuclear power...
Yale historian Denise Ho discusses her new co-edited volume on the power of consumer objects to reveal insights into Chinese culture during an era of scarcity.
Jennifer Altehenger and Denise Ho to talk about their new edited volume, Material Contradictions in Mao’s China, published in December 2022 by the University of Washington...
