On D-Day, June 6, 1944, more than 150,000 American, British, and Canadian forces traveled across the England Channel and landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of France’s Normandy region. Codenamed Operation Overlord, it was the largest...
Yale historian Mark Peterson believes that history is best told by abiding by the Golden Rule.
The accurate representation of the past is “a kind of moral science,” says Peterson, the Edmund S. Morgan Professor of History, adding that the age-old adage “...
In Yale medical sociologist Alka Menon’s work, she draws on her research in the United States and Malaysia to take a transnational look at cosmetic surgery.
What Menon found is that in addition to enhancing the looks that a patient already has, cosmetic...
Just in the first two months of 2019 alone, the night sky has been illuminated by a blood moon, a winter moon, and a super moon. Throughout time, celestial events such as these have — in equal parts — piqued curiosity and portended evil.
Ancient...
David Blight, the 1954 Professor of American History at Yale, was recently honored with the 2019 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize from Gettysburg College and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History for his book “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom...
To address the need for interdisciplinary scholarship that can help illuminate the complex ways that nature and culture are intertwined, the Yale Environmental Humanities Initiative has developed a new graduate certificate program to strengthen student...