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In the book, which won the 2023 Victor Turner Prize, Yale’s Alan Mikhail offers an inside look at the state bureaucracy of Egypt on the eve of revolution.

Historian Ned Blackhawk’s sweeping volume, which recognizes the centrality of Native Americans in U.S. history, won the National Book Award in nonfiction.

The Yale historian won in the biography category for her book chronicling the life of J. Edgar Hoover, who headed the Federal Bureau of Investigation for most of the 20th century.

Beverly Gage, a professor of history and American studies, received the Pulitzer Prize for her revelatory biography of the late FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.

The Los Angeles Times article is yet another in the apparently endless series of articles demonstrating the West’s ongoing cultural suicide and self-hatred.

May 10, 2021 Share this with FacebookShare this with TwitterShare this with LinkedInShare this with EmailPrint this Alan Mikhail Alan Mikhail, an authority on Middle Eastern history, global history, and histories of empire and the environment, has been appointed the Chace Family Professor of History, effective April 17. He is a member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and is chair of the Department of History. In his four books, Mikhail unearths narratives of environmental change and of imper...

May 10, 2021 Share this with FacebookShare this with TwitterShare this with LinkedInShare this with EmailPrint this (Photo: Dan Renzetti) Eight members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) have recently been named to endowed professorships by vote of Yale’s Board of Trustees. They are: Sarbani Basu, whose discoveries have changed our understanding of the structure of the sun and the properties of stars, has been appointed the William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Astronomy. Read more Fran...

Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir, Author of Valkyrie: Women of the Viking World (Bloomsbury, 2020). Neil Price’s The Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings is a wide-ranging and engaging account of the Viking Age. Never shirking from the cruelties enacted by the Vikings, Price has a knack for picking up on prosaic details to tell a bold story of a society dramatically different from our own. The Vikings may have been the first Europeans in America but Alan Mikhail’s God’s ...