Is it possible to create the “perfect” expression of data on a map?
William Rankin doesn’t think so. While most mainstream maps that use a jigsaw-puzzle-like format — solid...
The relationship between Nile flood variability and Egyptian political stability has been studied since Barbara Bell’s pioneering work in the 1970s, yet precise causal...
The New Haven Environmental History Project will host a December 4th workshop for area teachers on teaching with maps and making maps with students. The workshop is part of...
Maps are ubiquitous in contemporary life—not just for navigation, but for making sense of our society, our environment, and even ourselves. In an instant, huge datasets can...
In Inhabitants of the Deep, Jonathan Howard undertakes a black ecocritical study of the deep in African American literature. Howard contends that the deep—a geographic...
Yale Environmental History invites graduate students and early career practitioners in History and related fields to propose papers for our Spring 2026 “New Perspectives in...
The Fall 2025 “A History of Scientific Forestry: From Extraction to Ecosystem Management” webinar series organized by Yale Forest Forum will explore the history of “...
The Toynbee Prize Foundation’s Board of Trustees is pleased to announce that the 2025 recipient of the Toynbee Prize is Sunil Amrith. Amrith is the Renu and Anand Dhawan...
Yale Environmental History is pleased to announce its spring schedule of paper workshops featuring research in global environmental history by members of the Yale community...
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 ...
