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Most history textbooks claim that American involvement in World War II began when Congress issued a declaration of war following the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Prior to the...
Espejuelos oscuros/Dark Glasses
The Latino and Iberian Film Festival at Yale (LIFFY), sponsored by the Council for Latin American and Iberian Studies at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at...
In an international political climate that, at the moment, seems particularly prone to nationalism, populism, and even separatism, the Macmillan Center hosted a roundtable on the topic of the role of...
On November 4-5, the MacMillan Center hosted a diverse group of historians, anthropologists, sociologists, and political scientists to discuss sites and expressions of Russian politics beyond a...
Observing the architecture of SOHO China, one of the largest prime office real-estate developer in China, is akin to taking a glance into the future. The sleek, fluid designs of the buildings...
The struggle for the right to vote, and suppression of that right when gained, is a very old American story.  It is always at once historical and very current.  In recent years the Republican party...
All across the social sciences, from development economics to political science departments, researchers are going into the field to collect data and learn about the world. While much has been gained...
Ambassador Téte António, Permanent Observer of the African Union to the United Nations
On Tuesday, November 15, Ambassador Juan Carlos Mendoza-García, Permanent Representative of Costa Rica to the United Nations (for the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States); Ambassador Téte...
Leslie Harkema’s opening remarks pronounced the colloquium’s central idea: for the Modernist writers of early-20th-century Spain, “youth was the common denominator.” Unlike 19th-century youths, who...
Susan Dunn, the Massachusetts Professor of Humanities at Williams College, will give a series of three lectures in November on “FDR’s Third Hundred Days – Preparing for War and Global Leadership:...
The life of independent public inquiry, open public debate, and open scholarship and research virtually ceased in Burma, now Myanmar, for the half century after 1962, when the military took over. In...
On Thursday, the UK’s High Court of Justice issued a momentous decision – one that constitutes a dramatic rebuke of the government of Prime Minister Theresa May and, if upheld by the Supreme Court,...