5 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Cuban-American historian at Yale — one of the Pedro Pan children who escaped Cuba without his parents in 1962 — author of Waiting for Snow in Havana (National Book Award, 2003) and A Very Brief History of Eternity — specialist in the Reformation and early modern Catholic history.
American diplomat and Yale professor — co-founder of the Brady-Johnson Grand Strategy Program at Yale with John Gaddis — former executive aide to Secretary of State George Shultz — one of the most distinguished career Foreign Service Officers of his generation.
American computer scientist at Yale — author of Mirror Worlds and The Muse in the Machine — one of the pioneers of parallel computing (Linda language) — who was nearly killed by a Unabomber mail bomb in 1993 — who has written extensively on American culture and the internet.
German Assyriologist at Yale who wrote Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire — providing the most comprehensive accessible account of the Assyrian Empire for a popular audience.
American historian at Yale — the leading Cold War historian in America — author of The Cold War: A New History, Strategies of Containment, and George F. Kennan: An American Life (Pulitzer Prize 2012) — co-creator of Yale's Grand Strategy program.