In a new book, Carlos Eire evaluates once-common accounts of seemingly impossible phenomena — and challenges readers to suspend their own disbelief.

In her new book, Paola Bertucci, Professor of History and History of Science and Medicine in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, explains how fictionalized scientific facts can become reality for readers – in the eighteenth century as well as today.

What can music teach us about the past and ourselves? Music historian Anna Zayaruznaya challenges students to “attend carefully” to things that sound strange.

Jennifer Klein’s research spans the fields of U.S. labor history, urban history, social movements, and political economy.

During a three-day conference, Yale researchers shared and grappled with initial discoveries about the university’s entanglements with slavery.

In a Q&A, Yale historian Paul Sabin discusses liberal efforts to rein in and challenge the government in the 1960s and their impact on today’s politics.

Yale historian David Blight’s work on the Civil War in American memory helped make the case for removing one of Richmond’s most prominent Confederate monuments.

In “America on Fire,” the historian Elizabeth Hinton offers a sweeping reconsideration of the racial unrest that shook American cities in the 1960s and 70s.

Alan Mikhail, an authority on Middle Eastern history, has been appointed the Chace Family Professor of History, effective April 17.

Matthew Frye Jacobson, who studies race in America, has been appointed the Sterling Professor of American Studies and History, effective April 17.