Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition has announced that the fourth annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize will be awarded to Robert Harms and John Stauffer. The $25,000 annual award for the year’s best...
The Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale will mark its 20th anniversary with an international conference, “The Contribution of Oral Testimony to Holocaust and Genocide Studies,” October 6-8. Hadassah Lieberman, wife of Senator...
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale University has received a major gift from its founding donors, Richard Gilder (Class of 1954) and Lewis Lehrman (Class of 1960), that will ensure its continued operation...
David W. Blight, one of the nation’s foremost authorities on the Civil War and its legacy, will join the history department at Yale. Blight’s first major book, “Frederick Douglass’s Civil War,” helped to establish his reputation as a preeminent scholar...
The Yale Center for the Study of Globalization will host its first international conference from September 19 - 21 on The Silk Road in the 21st Century – Security and Insecurity in Central Asia and the Caucasus. The conference will be held in the Yale...
In a symposium to be held at Yale University, September 20-21, scholars from France and the United States will examine how two revolutions, which took place more than two centuries ago, continue to shape the political landscape of our countries today....
Many of the nation’s most acclaimed poets will participate in poetry readings and public discussions at Yale University on September 19-20 in celebration of the coveted Bollingen Prize for Poetry, administered by Yale library’s Collection of American...
In “Bush v. Gore: The Question of Legitimacy,” published this week by Yale University Press and edited by Yale Law professor Bruce Ackerman, some of the nation’s most distinguished legal scholars explore the historic Supreme Court decision that...
In his new book “The Stones of Balazuc: A French Village in Time” (W.W. Norton), Yale professor John Merriman presents a portrait of a tiny medieval town from its prehistoric origins through its heyday as a producer of silk to its reincarnation as a...
As Queen Elizabeth II and her subjects observe the 50th anniversary of her reign with public festivities, Yale University is celebrating the milestone with an exhibition of documents and memorabilia from jubilee celebrations past and present. A toy bus...