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December 20, 2017
Crystal Feimster provides historical context to the  long tradition of black women speaking out against sexual abuse in a discussion of the film, “The Rape of Recy Taylor,” (...
December 20, 2017
Crystal Feimster provides historical context to the  long tradition of black women speaking out against sexual abuse in a discussion of the film, “The Rape of Recy Taylor,” (...
December 14, 2017
In civil rights history course, students rethink movement’s past, future. With unfortunate frequency, Crystal Feimster has found herself having to rethink her first...
November 16, 2017
In a recent YaleNews article Beth Connolly Martell writes: “Finding the religious in the secular with Kathryn Lofton” “For Kathryn Lofton, professor of Religious Studies,...
November 7, 2017
We proudly announce Pedro Regalado, PhD student, as the winner of the best research paper on planning history submitted by a full-time student.  The Society for American City...
November 6, 2017
Please join me in congratulating Jean-Christophe Agnew, the 2017 winner of the ASA’s Mary C. Turpie Prize, which recognizes “outstanding achievement in American Studies...
November 1, 2017
Sarah Haley (Yale AMST PhD 2010) won the 2017 Laura Romero First Book Publication Prize for her book, There’s No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim...