Please turn JavaScript on
Yale University Press icon

Yale University Press

Receive updates from Yale University Press for free, starting right now.

We can deliver them by email, via your phone or you can read them from a personalised news page on follow.it.

This way you won't miss any new article from Yale University Press. Unsubscribe at any time.

Site title: Home - Yale University Press

Is this your feed? Claim it!

Publisher:  Unclaimed!
Message frequency:  0.28 / day

Message History

In ancient Athens, frustrations and disillusionment with the political system may have helped fuel the rise of ostracism—a system that allowed citizens to exile powerful figures seen as threats to the political order. Through the story of Themistocles, this essay explores how early democracy responded to public dissatisfaction and asks whether modern systems can adapt in simi...


Read full story

K. L. H. Wells—

This year marks the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. This semiquincentennial of the establishment of the United States of America is being celebrated throughout the country by a slew of exhibitions, reenactments, documentaries and publications that focus on the Revolutionary War as well as many other chapters of Am...


Read full story

The following is adapted from the the chapter “An Eloquent Essayist” in Nicholas Fox Weber’s biography Anni Albers: A Life.

Almost immediately after arriving at Black Mountain, Anni began to write. Her essays, some of them specific to wea...


Read full story

This timeline, taken from George Goodwin’s book, Propaganda Wars of the American Revolution, details events in Congress in Philadelphia as it moves towards approving the Declaration of Independence on 4th ...


Read full story

Michael O’Hanlon, author of To Dare Mighty Things, argues that the United States became a global military power much earlier than commonly believed—starting in the late 19th century, not after Pearl Harbor. As the U.S. industrialized and expanded its naval capabilities in the 1880s–1900s, it deliberately pursued great-power status through shipbuilding, military strat...


Read full story