Department of History at Yale University

12/11/2025

https://news.yale.edu/2025/12/10/radical-cartography-shaping-new-narratives-through-maps

In his new book, Yale’s William Rankin explores how mapmaking shapes our view of the world — and proposes a set of values that can recognize a more robust story of human experience.

11/17/2025

11/17/2025

Assembling India’s Constitution by Rohit De and Ornit Shani
This insightful new history of the making of India's constitution foregrounds its emergence from the perspective of the nation's people.
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11/17/2025

Three Yalies have been selected as 2026 Rhodes Scholars, joining one of the world’s most respected communities of emerging leaders.

Yale College seniors Noah B. Tirschwell of Dobbs Ferry, New York; Aruna B. Balasubramanian of Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania; and August A. Rios of Bluffton, South Carolina, are among 32 students chosen from across the United States for fully funded graduate study at the University of Oxford beginning in 2026. Additional international recipients will be announced in the coming days.

Read more about the scholars in Yale News: bit.ly/3LJ8Umg

10/20/2025

Please help us congratulate Nonfiction Winner Sunil Amrith for The Burning Earth. His narrative is a sweepng look of how humanity has transformed the planet.

Read more here: https://www.daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/2025-awards/

10/20/2025

https://www.wtnh.com/on-air/nyberg/nyberg-yale-professor-shares-award-winning-book-on-18th-century-information-science/

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — A professor of history and curator-in-charge at the Yale Peabody Museum has released an award-winning book focused on 18th-century information by taking readers on a journ…

10/20/2025

09/09/2025

https://macmillan.yale.edu/stories/exploring-empire-and-resistance-macmillan-center-awards-yale-faculty-benton-and

The MacMillan Center has awarded its distinguished 2025 International Book Prizes to Yale ladder faculty members Lauren Benton and Priyasha Mukhopadhyay.

09/09/2025

https://fas.yale.edu/news-announcements/news/modern-historian-investigating-debt-and-creating-space-collaboration

Incoming FAS faculty member Destin Jenkins is documenting the history of debt in the United States and Black governance after the Civil Rights movement.

09/09/2025

09/09/2025

Six economists helped shape the path of development in the Global South.

In a new Q&A, Yale historian David Engerman discusses his book Apostles of Development, which tells the story of South Asian economists who led global efforts to reduce poverty and inequality in the latter half of the 20th century: bit.ly/3JyiWp2