On April 16th, Madeleine Zelin will give a talk at Yale Law School’s Legal History Forum entitled “Legal transplants and local customs: The struggle over apportioned liability for partnership debt in early modern...

Andrew Delbanco received the 2019 Mark Lynton History Prize for The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America’s Soul from the Revolution to the Civil...

Pamela Smith’s most recent edited volume, Entangled Itineraries: Materials, Practices, and Knowledges Across Eurasia, is now available for pre-order at the University of Pittsburgh Press. Its twelve essays trace the pathways of diverse materials, techniques, and...

Pamela Smith gave the annual Dibner Lecture in the History of Science at the Huntington Library on March 20. Her lecture was entitled “Of Lizards, Laboratories, and History: The Making and Knowing...

Stephanie McCurry’s recently released book Women’s War “challenges the idea that women are outside of war, through a trio of dramatic stories revealing women’s transformative role in the American Civil War.” It is now available through Harvard...