In this episode of Footnotes, we explore the controversial career and personal life of Yale graduate Lee de Forest, who is best known for inventing the part that made early...
Ivano Dal Prete’s recent book On the Edge of Eternity. The Antiquity of the Earth in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (https://global.oup.com/academic/product/on-the-...
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...
Lauren Killingsworth, MD/PhD student, has been awarded this year’s Nathan Reingold Prize from the History of Science Society for the best not-yet published article by a...
Nana Quarshie’s article “Psychiatry on a Shoestring: West Africa and the Global Movements of Deinstitutionalization” wins the Walter D. Love Prize for the best article...
Researchers at Yale University are focused on the harrowing history of eugenics, the role the institution played in developing this psuedoscience, and its many lingering “...
Kevles, an award-winning author who was a senior lecturer in Yale’s Department of History, died on Aug. 18, two days short of her 85th birthday.
Bettyann Kevles
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