Yale University Press

In On Statesmanship, Steven B. Smith argues that great statesmen are not just political leaders—they are educators who shape a nation’s identity through language, history, and moral vision. Developing future leaders requires a renewed emphasis on civic education rooted in literature, philosophy, history, and the study of great leaders, rather than an overreliance on ...

The following excerpt is adapted from Andrew Moisey’s book The Photographic World Picture: A New Prehistory of Photography. The book spans over four centuries from the Renaissance to today, and shows how pictorial models of the prese...

Karen Torghele has written the first biography of polio-vaccine creator, Albert Sabin. This book dives into his personal life and medical research, and reminds us of the importance of vaccines. We asked Torghele how she wrote about a complicated person in a revolutionary time for vaccinology and why his story should prevail.

Amy Sherald: American Sublime encompasses the full arc of Amy Sherald’s career and explores the artist’s method of selecting individuals she meets on the street to create paintings that transcend portraiture and expand the canon of American art. This book accompanied Sherald’s blockbuster exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of Americ...