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Fall 2020 Issue

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...

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WHO ARE THE SHERDEN: REASSESSING THE IDENTITY OF THE ANCIENT SHERDEN ‘SEA PEOPLES’, 1300-900 BCE

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...

In Media Res: A Panel with Current DS Students on Texts and Transitions

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...

Henry Jacob

Anthropology for the World: A Conversation with Dr. Chip Colwell

Interviewed by Henry Jacob, SY '21 Transcribed by Rachel Sragovicz, TD '24 Dr. Chip Colwell is a leading educator and researcher. He serves as the founding editor-in-chief of SAPIENS [http://www.sapiens.org/], an online anthropology magazine accessible to a wide audience. Colwell received his PhD from Indiana...

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