Courses and Research

To learn more about Yale teaching related to environmental history and the environmental humanities, visit the course compilation on the Yale Environmental Humanities website.

 

For the most up-to-date course listings, please consult Yale Course Search by searching under faculty last name or by reviewing course offerings listed under the history major.  (To search over multiple years in Yale Course Search, select “Past Terms.”) 

 

Undergraduates interested in specializing in environmental history through the History Major can find guidance on an Environmental History Pathway here.  Graduate courses at Yale are open to advanced undergraduates at the discretion of the instructor.

 

For general guidance on finding primary sources for history research, visit the Yale library’s Primary Sources at Yale website and the History and American Studies subject guides. Yale’s special collections include a range of remarkable holdings, including the Rachel Carson Papers, Natural Resources Defense Council records, the Western Americana Collection in Beinecke Library, and much more. Select environmental history-related manuscript collections at Yale are listed in the Yale library’s environmental humanities subject guide.

The Archives at Yale search engine provides an entry point for searching the finding aids for many archival collections.