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Margaret Elm Wheelock’s life story is, on the surface, unremarkable. But her writing about life on the Onondaga Nation Territory reveals in striking detail the resilience and solidarity required to survive in a neglected, marginalized community.
Michael Leroy Oberg—
Margaret Elm, a young Onondaga girl, began attending the Lincoln Institution i...
A photograph of a rural financial association’s noticeboard in colonial Korea offers a glimpse into how Japanese colonial authorities sought to reshape agricultural practices and everyday life. Through government-backed lending, educational campaigns, and messaging that promoted thrift and productivity, these associations encouraged Korean farmers to adopt new economic behavi...
In this episode of the Yale University Press podcast, we talk to Betsy Kornhauser, Tim Barringer, and Jenny Raab about Frederic Church on the occasion of the artist’s 200th anniversary and the exhibition the trio collaboratively curated, Frederic Church: Global Artist
In The Death of the Clinic, Benoît Loiseau traces the history of five radical health care experiments that challenged traditional medical institutions and reimagined what it means to care for one another. Spanning Weimar Berlin, pre-NHS Lon...
The following excerpt is adapted from the chapter “Observing the Natural World” of Owen Davies’s book Art of Divination: A Visual History of Oracles, Prophecy, and the Search for Secret Knowledge. From the Romans looking to the flight of birds, to Renaissance tarot cards, and to modern-day fortune cookies, Owen Davies reveals the timeless desire to transcend the huma...