David W. Blight, one of the country’s foremost authorities on slavery and the Civil War, will lead a course exploring the intertwined and lasting legacies of the two as part of an annual Yale lecture ...

Three of Yale’s most esteemed historians will team up next fall to teach a course exploring the nature of American identity from 1776 to the present as part of the 2025 DeVane Lecture course, an ...

Crafting strong narratives and restoring value judgments to those tales are key elements to protecting history’s usefulness in the humanities, argued Donald Kagan in the 34th Jefferson Lecture in the ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - As protests against police brutality and systemic racism have swept across the country following the death of George Floyd, many have been encouraged to educate themselves on the ...

John M. Merriman, history professor and former head of Branford College, died earlier this year. He was 75. Merriman, beloved by his colleagues and the many students whom he taught and mentored during ...