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...
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People sometimes feel that their ordinary way of making sense of the world is objective and impartial, but a growing body of research suggests that there might be more to the story.
There will be a memorial service on Friday, Nov. 11, for John Morton Blum, a renowned historian of 20th-century American political history and a pivotal figure on the Yale campus during the social unrest of the late 1960s. Blum died on Oct. 17 in North...
Yale Law School’s Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic has released a report on the widespread use of short-term employment contracts in the Cambodian garment industry to deny workers statutory benefits and to restrict their exercise of...