A brilliant, paradigm-shifting global history of how humanity has reshaped the planet, and the planet has shaped human history, over the last 500 years.
In this magisterial...
Never before in human history has Earth experienced a change in climate as rapid as the shift we’re living through today. Can history hold clues to an upheaval without...
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...
An ambitious history of flags, stamps, and currency—and the role they played in US imperialism.
In Imperial Material, Alvita Akiboh reveals how US national identity has...
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...
Yale Environmental History will host a one-day conference, “New Perspectives in Energy History,” on Saturday, March 2, 2024.
The Call for Papers is now available at the ...
Oliver Lucier, “Climate Conscious: Caribbean Commodities and Holdridge Life Zones, 1940s–1960s,” ISIS 114:3 (September 2023): 578-598.
During the 1980s and 1990s the...
AUGUST 2023, BOSTON, MA – Oliver Lucier, of South Kingstown, Rhode Island, has been awarded the 2023 AMS/Graduate Fellowship in the History of Science.
The fellowship is...
The Yale Energy History Project has launched a new website, “Energy Basics,” to help teach the fundamentals of energy systems in humanities and social science classes and to...
“Middle East Environmental Histories” seeks to publish the best work on the environmental history of the Middle East from late antiquity to the present. It spotlights the...
Jen Rose Smith, “The Cold Never Bothered Native Hawaiians Anyway: A Conversation with Hi’ilei Julia Hobart,” Edge Effects, February 16, 2023.
Beginning in the mid-1800s, Americans hauled frozen pond water, then glacial ice, and then ice machines to Hawaiʻi—all in an effort to reshape the islands in the service of...
It is commonly assumed that the creation story of Genesis and its chronology were the only narratives openly available in medieval and early modern Europe and that the...
A study involving affiliates of the Yale Environmental Humanities Program assessed the consequences of land displacement and forced migration on present-day Native American...
Abstract
During the Little Ice Age of the early modern centuries, close to a third of the globe’s population perished. Because this period serves as the most recent...
