Yale political scientist Ian Shapiro admires Tom Paine, the English-born American revolutionary whose 1776 pamphlet “Common Sense” galvanized support for independence from Great Britain, whose “American Crisis” letters sustained the American forces...
This story is the second in a series about Yale’s evolution under President Peter Salovey as he prepares to return to the faculty later this year.
A few years ago, Sunil Amrith was a rising star at Harvard. A professor of history and South Asian studies,...
The inspiration for Carlos Eire’s latest book struck him while visiting a medieval convent in Spain 40 years ago. At one point during a tour, a guide informed Eire and the other visitors that the room where they were standing was the very place where...