Elements of Border and Infrastructure: Earth I October 20th, 2021 / 12:30 pm EST/ Link for Registration The land question is an age old in the political history of the Middle East, but only more recently has scholarship on the politics of conservation and resource management brought such questions to bear on this topic. This panel invites its participants to…

Judah P. Benjamin (1811–1884) was a brilliant and successful lawyer in New Orleans, and one of the first Jewish members of the U.S. Senate. He then served in the Confederacy as secretary of war and secretary of state, becoming the confidant and alter ego of Jefferson Davis. In this new biography in the Jewish Lives series at Yale University Press,…