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August 27, 2013
The history department offers courses in nearly every region, period, and field of the global past. To assist students in choosing courses of particular interest, we have...
August 27, 2013
Professor Timothy Snyder has been awarded the 2013 Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought for his book Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Basic Books/ Random...
August 26, 2013
The Macmillan Center presented international book prizes to works by four Yale faculty members on topics as diverse as the use of idols in ancient Greece, the effect of...
July 15, 2013
Edmund S. Morgan, an award-winning historian who illuminated the intellectual world of the Puritans, explored the paradox of freedom and slavery in colonial Virginia and, in...
June 27, 2013
The Yale University Department of History intends to make a tenure-track assistant professor appointment, to begin July 1, 2014, focusing on modern Middle East history....
June 27, 2013
George Chauncey testified as an expert witness on the history of antigay discrimination in both of the same-sex marriage cases decided by the Supreme Court in June:...
June 26, 2013
The Yale University Departments of Classics and History intend to make a senior tenured appointment in Roman History, beginning July 1, 2014. Preference will be given to...