It’s a few minutes before 9:25 a.m. when students quietly shuffle into a basement classroom in Dow Hall. While it’s not surprising that these students are quiet at that time on a Monday morning, what is surprising is that the silence will continue...
On Sept. 16, 1920, just as hundreds of Wall Street brokers headed out to lunch, a horse-drawn cart packed with dynamite exploded outside of the headquarters of the renowned banking institution J.P. Morgan & Co. The bombing resulted in the loss of 38...
There was a time when Albert Laguna thought his father was the funniest man in the world. Until, that is, he began to research the topic of popular culture in Cuba for his recently published book and realized that his father had been stealing quite a few...
Alan Mikhail, professor of history, was recently honored with the 2018 Anneliese Maier Research Award given by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Valued at €250,000, the award is given to outstanding scholars in the humanities and social scientists...
Three Yale faculty members have been awarded fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
This year’s winners are: Alexey Fedorov, professor of geology and geophysics; Martin Hägglund, professor of comparative literature and of humanities...
“Turbulent,” “shattering,” “unforgettable”: These are the words that are frequently used to describe the year 1968, when the United States and Europe encountered a range of social justice struggles — anti-war activist movements, student protests,...
April 2018 marked the 20th anniversary of the death of Pol Pot, the leader of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge, the regime that is responsible for the genocide that in four years took the lives of over 1.5 million people. The genocide is today known as one of the...
It was a long-standing curiosity about museums — one that was piqued during a fellowship as a Yale undergraduate — that sparked Denise Y. Ho’s desire to write her new book, “Curating Revolution: Politics on Display in Mao’s China.”
Ho, who is assistant...
Title IX — the U.S. civil rights law passed in 1972 that prohibits sex discrimination in federally funded education programs — has been widely recognized as a crucial step toward gender equality in America. A new Yale study tracks the changing use of...
