According to a recent poll by Quinnipiac University, a majority of registered voters believe that, to some degree, America has lost its identity. Sixty-four percent of those surveyed said that some degree of “radical change” is needed to make America...
Sitting in the audience of the critically acclaimed Broadway play “Hamilton,” Yale historian Joanne Freeman was impressed by the ways that its creator, Lin-Manuel Miranda, melded hip-hop music with early American history. Freeman realized she was watching...
From a traditional paper map to the little blue dot on a GPS, the history of the map is put into context in William Rankin’s recently published book “After the Map: Cartography, Navigation, and the Transformation of Territory in the 20th Century.”In “...
Louise Glück, acclaimed poet and the Rosenkranz Writer in Residence at Yale, and award-winning author and biographer Ron Chernow ’70, are among the 12 distinguished recipients of the 2015 National Humanities Medals.President Barack Obama will award the...