By Omar Chishti '22 Edited by London Johns '25 and Natalie Simpson '23 EUTHYPHRO: “I would certainly say that the pious is what all the gods love, and the opposite, what all the gods hate is impious.” SOCRATES: “But now you see that they are in opposite...
Dear Readers, Thank you for reading the Fall 2020 edition of The Yale Historical Review (YHR). I write this letter from the somewhat curious position as a soon-to-be graduate from Yale. For the first time in four years, I will no longer be a member of the YHR. In August...
Author: Dimitri Antonio Vallejo, Columbia University Primary Editors: Daniel Blatt, SM '21 Mathis Bitton, ES '23 Secondary Editors: Grace Blaxill, PC '23 Isabella Smeets, MC '25 Cynthia Lin, PC '23 Zahra Yarali, SM '24 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- INTRODUCTION The Late Bronze Age collapse (1225-1175 BCE) was...
Author: Zachary Wallis, McGill University Primary Editors: Matthew Sáenz, DP '21 Varun Sikand, BF '22 Secondary Editors: Jared Brunner, PM '22 Margaret Hedeman, BF '22 Calvin Chai-Onn, TD '23 On August 15th, 1947, the United Kingdom granted full self-government to India and Pakistan in conformity...
NB: This panel was conducted on Zoom, and participants made use of the chat feature throughout. The chat has been incorporated into this written version in the form of endnotes. YHR: DS begins before students even arrive at Yale, with three summer reading assignments. How did DS shape your transition...
Written by Marcus Loiseau Edited by Frank Lukens '22 and Larissa Jimenez '23 Kreyol pale, kreyol komprann. Que Dieu bénisse my country et le monde Abstract: This thesis demonstrates the legacy of the U.S. Occupation of Haiti through the dynamic historical scope of the Harlem Renaissance and...
