
A Little History of… Independence Day
Yale’s Little Histories are a family of books that explore the history of the world’s most remarkable people,…
Yale’s Little Histories are a family of books that explore the history of the world’s most remarkable people,…
Robert Boyle was fascinated by the world and he spent his life trying to explain why things are…
History is rife with examples of persecuted scientists—think Rhazes, Galileo, and Servetus, for starters—but it would be a…
Who discovered the atom? Nowadays it’s completely unremarkable to hear someone talk about atoms, but before John Dalton’s…
If you could turn your aluminium Coca-Cola can into gold, would you? You probably would, but if everybody could do it,…
There are few things more rewarding than completing a difficult jigsaw puzzle. Alfred Wegener was a prominent scientist and…
Albert Einstein is a name that most people recognise, but did you know that Albert was a big…