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 ...

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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 ...

Donald Kagan, a Yale University professor who has written extensively about ancient Greek history and international relations, will deliver the 2005 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, the National ...