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 ...

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 ...

In preparation for the country’s semiquincentennial, Yale history professors Beverly Gage, Joanne Freeman and David Blight will teach a one-time-only course called “America at 250: A History” this ...

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Next semester’s selection of history seminars will feature several new and updated courses — including a dive into The Troubles conflict in Northern Ireland and a detailed look at the history of the U ...