News

June 9, 2022
Congratulations to our graduating History majors on their senior essay prizes!  See below for a list of History and HSHM prize winners.  And click here for the list of...
June 9, 2022
Many of our outstanding, graduating History graduate students were awarded Yale and department prizes this academic year. See below for a list of prizes, awards, and...
June 3, 2022
Sunil Amrith, professor of History at Yale University, will be awarded the Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for History 2022. The award honours his search for the historical origins of...
May 26, 2022
John M. Merriman, Charles Seymour Professor of History, died on May 22 after a long illness. He was 75. Merriman was born in Battle Creek, Michigan on June 15, 1946 and...
May 11, 2022
In Romare Bearden in the Homeland of His Imagination: An Artist’s Reckoning with the South (UNC Press, 2022), Glenda Gilmore meticulously documents and interprets the...
May 10, 2022
On May 5, 1943, three wolf packs of German U-boats attacked ONS-5, an Allied merchant convoy sailing from British ports to New York City to retrieve stocks of oil, ores,...
April 25, 2022
On April 23, 2022, scholars of Latin American history and politics from across the United States, Latin America, and Europe gathered at Yale to celebrate and debate the...