When Yale’s Department of African American Studies celebrates its 50th anniversary this fall, it will be with a debt of gratitude to one of its recently retired faculty members, Hazel V. Carby.
A world-renowned scholar in the fields of feminist literary...
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 “...