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...
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...
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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...
New Yale history faculty member Nurfadzilah Yahaya specialises in history of Southeast Asia, Indian Ocean history, legal history, history of infrastructure, and environmental...
As Britain and France grapple with sweltering temperatures — possibly even record temperatures — for which their countries are ill-equipped, their privileged residents are...
Cross-posted from Yale News
By Susan Gonzalez
Yale historian Sunil Amrith has been awarded the 2022 Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize for History in recognition of his examination of...
Sea and Land: An Environmental History of the Caribbean
Philip J. Morgan, John R. McNeill, Matthew Mulcahy, and Stuart B. Schwartz
Oxford University Press, 2022
Sea and Land ...
Taylor Rose, “The ‘Opening of the Clackamas’: Log Trucks, Access Roads, and Multiple-Use Infrastructure in Oregon’s National Forests,” Western Historical Quarterly.
Driving...
Book Abstract:
Climate change over the past thousands of years is undeniable, but debate has arisen about its impact on past human societies. This book explores the link...
Dr. Alvita Akiboh is a U.S. historian specializing in the history of U.S. overseas colonies in the Caribbean and Pacific. She earned her PhD in History from Northwestern...
In the 1960s and 1970s, an insurgent attack on traditional liberalism took shape in America. It was built on new ideals of citizen advocacy and the public interest....
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The first wave of environmental justice literature tended to define environmental racism as the disparate siting of toxic waste facilities in low-income areas and...