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January 25, 2024
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  BOOK- ON THE EDGE OF ETERNITY
December 19, 2023
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-...
December 11, 2023
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...
December 5, 2023
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...
November 17, 2023
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...
October 5, 2023
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 “...
September 14, 2023
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 Original...