Volume XV, Fall 2024, Online by Emma Yanai, Yale University ’25 Written for AMST 361: Comparative Colonialisms Advised by Lisa Lowe Edited by Jae D'Alessandro, Evan Daneker, Alison Tae, Thi Ha Phyo, Daniel Yim, and Kevin Guo Immediately following Japan’s 1945 surrender to the Allied Forces in...
Volume XV, Fall 2024, Online By Tasha Dambacher Written for HIST 292J: Democracy and the French Revolution Advised by Professor Isaac Nakhimovsky Edited by Helena Vargas, Rio Nagao, Alex Geldzahler, Claire Nam, and Baala Shakya Images of Marie-Antoinette in all manner of compromising positions were not difficult to come by...
Volume XV, Fall 2024 Interview by Joan Huh, Yale University ’26 PDFInterview Maria Kaliambou YHR Fall 2024.pdf535 KBdownload-circle...
Volume XV, Fall 2024 by Stella Gray, Yale University ’24 Senior Thesis in History Advised by Professor Marci Shore Edited by Sophie Garcia, Maya Mufson, Elijah Hurewitz-Ravitch, Oliver Giddings, Eliza Daunt, and Teddy Witt PDFBefore The Music Stopped YHR Fall 2024.pdf2 MBdownload-circle...
Volume XV, Fall 2024 by Rose Kohler, Yale University ’24 Senior Thesis in History Advised by Professor David W. Blight Edited by Ami Gillon, Felipe Prates Tavares, Nikos Makridis, Max Hit- chin, Jack Ferguson, Danielle Burke PDFAnd The War Went On YHR Fall 2024.pdf2 MBdownload-circle...
Volume XV, Fall 2024 by Evan Daneker, Yale University ’26 PDFArchitectures of Memory.pdf1 MBdownload-circle...
Volume XV, Fall 2024 by Kiara Alvarez, Smith College ’24 Written for HST 371: Topics in 19th Century United States History— Remembering Slavery: A Gendered Reading of the WPA Interviews Advised by Professor Elizabeth Pryor Edited by Macy Lerner, Julianne Harwood, Kyra McCreery, Chloe Rhee, Evelyn Ronan, and Ethan Chen...
By Zane Reeb Edited by Nikhe Braimah, Sabrina Guo, Isabel Kalb, Ami Gillon, Alexia Dochnal, and Zane Reeb Table of Contents I. Introduction II. What was the Conspiracy? III. Socioeconomic Levers of Influence IV. Authority in Question V. Conclusion Introduction My grandma loves to tell a good story, especially when...
By Yiyun Huang Edited by Maggie Grether, Felipe Prates Tavares, Michael Zhao, Carolina Melendez Lucas, and Gisela Chung-Halpern Introduction … 妇又至，曰：是贼太无情，相与好合许时，无一分顾恋意，忍弃我邪？宜速 反。黄不敢答，但冥心祷天地，默诵经。妇忽长吁曰：此我过也，初不合迷谬，至 逢今日。没前程畜产，何足慕？我独不能别择偶乎？遂去。其怪始绝。1 … The woman came again and said, “You bastard is...
Volume XIV, Spring 2024 By Michael Skora, Georgetown University ’23 Advised by Osama Abi-Mershed Edited by Andrew Maglio, Benjamin Gervin, Katie Meine, Sophie Garcia, and Tiffany Pham PDFYHRGeorgetown.pdf1 MBdownload-circle...
Volume XIV, Spring 2024 By Rachel Blatt, Yale University ’23 Advised by Professor Andrew Johnston Edited by Samantha Moon, Jae D'Alessandro, Macy Lerner, and Nikos Makridis PDFYHRPriesthoods.pdf1 MBdownload-circle...
Volume XIV, Spring 2024 By Drew Letellier, Columbia University ’23 Advised by Professor Natasha Lightfoot and Professor Paul Chemberlin Edited by Zadie Winthrop, Ryo Nagao, Owen Hannon, and Zahra Yarali PDFYHRBaptists.pdf1 MBdownload-circle...
Volume XVI, Fall 2023 By Catherine Veronis, The University of Chicago ’23 Advised by Fredrik Albritton Jonsson Edited by River Sell, Andrew Maglio, Iz Klemmer, Lucy Ton That, Macy Lerner, Matthew Jennings, and Natalie Miller PDFCatherine Veronis.pdf2 MBdownload-circle...
Volume XVI, Fall 2023 By Sophie Huttner, Yale University ’23 Advised by Brendan Shanahan Edited by Hannah Szabó, Yasmine Halmane, Nikhe Braimah, Samantha Moon, Maggie Grether, and Gisela Chung-Halpern INTRODUCTION From the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act to the 1924 National Quota act, American Jews had been some of the nation’...
Pacta Sunt Servanda Volume IV: December 9, 2021 Written by Nicholas Rice Edited by Judah Millen Introduction This essay will investigate the connections between the aesthetic and political philosophies of Alexander Pope, Edmund Burke, and Immanuel Kant, arguing that we can trace in them the development of competing liberal and...
By Daevan Mangalmurti and Brian Reyes A mural is painted on the exterior wall of 301 Crown St. in New Haven, Connecticut. It depicts a three-tiered human pyramid: laborers and construction workers supporting janitors and musicians supporting businessmen and students. Behind these people, in their brightly colored shirts and skirts,...
Volume 17: February 1, 2021 Contextualizing Hamlet's Pirates By London Johns Possibly the strangest part of Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a passage in which Hamlet claims that he has been captured by pirates on the way to England. The pirates are only written about in a letter, and...
Written by Kenia Hale, SM '21 Edited by Fiona Benson, SY '22 Cover Art by Kiera Hale, ig: @kierahaleart Since 1619, the story of enslaved, Black, forced migration has been ingrained in American history. From the Underground Railroad to the Great Migration, movement has been a key method...
Volume 18: February 8, 2021 Elizabethan Costumes as Status Symbols By London Johns The aim of many modern costume designers is to create a sense of realism. Plays set in a particular location and era require actors to dress in a way that communicates their characters’ time period and culture....
Volume 20: February 22, 2021 The Macbeth Riot By London Johns On May 10, 1849, William Macready was arranged to star in a production of Macbeth in the New York Astor Place Opera House. It was a much-anticipated performance, both by Macready’s supporters and his critics, and that evening...
Interview by Henry Jacob, SY '21 Transcribed by Rosemary Chen, BF '24 Introduction: Born and raised in Queens, New York, Jelani Cobb completed his undergraduate studies at Howard University and received a doctorate in American history from Rutgers University. He serves as the Ira A. Lipman Professor of...
