Paula Hyman, a leading historian of modern French Jewry and an internationally recognized authority on the history of Jewish women, died on Dec. 15 after a long illness.Paula HymanA funeral will be held Dec. 16 at 11:30 a.m. at Congregation Beth El-Keser...
From providing open access to Yale’s vast collection of digital images to establishing a new literary prize, from the earliest discovery of rock art in Egypt to the creation of a center for preserving cultural heritage, here are 10 stories that made...
Union organizer and political and civil rights activist David Montgomery, the Farnam Professor Emeritus of History at Yale, died suddenly on Dec. 2. He was 84 years old.David MontgomeryMontgomery was one of the founders of the “New Labor History” in the...
Michael R. Dove won the 2011 Julian Steward Award for his book “The Banana Tree at the Gate: The History of Marginal Peoples and Global Markets in Borneo.” The award is granted by the Environmental Anthropology section of the American Anthropological...