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 ...

Students and locals packed Battell Chapel on Thursday for the first meeting of the one-time-only course “America at 250: A History,” with an introductory lecture taught by history professors Beverly ...

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 ...

On Feb. 16, Yale University marked a milestone in its comprehensive, long-term examination of the university’s historical role in and associations with slavery, publishing a related peer-reviewed book ...

Yale launches Filipino language courses, a milestone in cultural representation and student advocacy on campus. NEW HAVEN, ...

Beverly Gage, a professor of history at Yale University and the author of a recent biography of J. Edgar Hoover, recently took to the pages of Foreign Affairs to present her and Jacob Heilbrunn’s ...

MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell is joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning author, historian, and Yale University professor David Blight who is calling out Donald Trump's attacks on the facts of U.S. history and ...

Indigenous perspectives have often been excluded from U.S. historical narratives. A Yale University professor hopes to spotlight the importance of those perspectives in a new book. Ned Blackhawk is a ...

Yale University has announced a class called “Beyoncé Makes History: Black Radical Tradition, Culture, Theory & Politics Through Music.” Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager chat about how universities are ...