How a journey through Italy casts light on secrets, stereotypes, and the manipulation of information in eighteenth-century science.
In 1749, the celebrated French physicist...
An award-winning historian’s examination of impossible events at the dawn of modernity and of their enduring significance
“Historically rich and superbly written.”—David J...
A motivational saying popular within the climate advocacy movement advises, “It’s never too late to do your best.” With respect to climate change, political representatives...
Unlike other high-profile cases decided by the Supreme Court in its just-concluded term, granting of certiorari in National Pork Producers Council v. Ross did not immediately...
Black writing, from W.E.B. Du Bois to John Keene, is full of rebellious paratexts rearing up from the margins and backs of books—epigraphs, footnotes, endnotes, indexes, and...
An infinite exhibition fills the nave: Laurent Grasso’s ANIMA
The world of analogies and meaning takes on its full scope, resonances prevail over impoverishing...
This paper considers the possibilities and limits of anticolonial resistance alongside the
transmedial artworks of Tuareg poet and artist Mahmoudan Hawad, setting what he...
The most enduring feature of U.S. history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This long practice of ignoring...
The Yale Energy History Project has launched a new website, “Energy Basics,” to help teach the fundamentals of energy systems in humanities and social science classes and...
Today, we’re driven to distraction, our attention overwhelmed by the many demands upon it—most of which emanate from our beeping and blinking digital devices. This may seem...
Harvey Weiss, Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and Anthropology and the Environment, has published “Pyramid building and...
During the thirteenth century, the Persian naturalist and judge Zakariyyāʾ Qazwīnī authored what became one of the most influential works of natural history in the world:...
Beginning in the mid-1800s, Americans hauled frozen pond water, then glacial ice, and then ice machines to Hawaiʻi—all in an effort to reshape the islands in the service of...
Edward S. Cooke, Jr., the Charles F. Montgomery Professor of American Decorative Arts, has published Global Objects: Toward a Connected Art History with Princeton University...
Alan Mikhail, the Chace Family Professor of History, has published an article in the Autumn 2022 issue of Critical Inquiry titled “What the World Says: The Ottoman Empire,...
A study involving affiliates of the Yale Environmental Humanities Program assessed the consequences of land displacement and forced migration on present-day Native American...
Art history is often viewed through cultural or national lenses that define some works as fine art while relegating others to the category of craft. Global Objects points the...
Ivano Dal Prete’s new book, On the Edge of Eternity: The Antiquity of the Earth in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Oxford University Press, 2022), radically revises...
In a Washington Post article, Deborah Coen, Professor and Chair of the History of Science & Medicine Program at Yale, observed that European nations found themselves at a...
Northeastern Central African Republic - a vast space bordering Chad, Darfur, and South Sudan - is a quintessential ‘stateless’ space, where the government has little presence...
