At MIT, Thomas Piketty calls for policies and collaborations to reduce income inequality
French economist was a keynote speaker at the 2018 World Economic History Congress.
French economist was a keynote speaker at the 2018 World Economic History Congress.
Congress of leading thinkers in economic, business, and social history convenes in the US for first time in 50 years.
Assistant professor explores how risk sharing and mutual aid shifted to individual forms of protection.
At community dialogue, MIT historians discuss the power of historical knowledge to make a better world.
MIT Community Dialogue series is underway as multi-year research continues.
At annual event, Boston Globe’s Spotlight team discusses its latest investigation into racism in Boston.
Autor, Capozzola, Raman, and Smith receive MIT's most prestigious undergraduate teaching award.
Students bring the Institute into national conversation about universities and the institution of slavery in the United States.
Findings show founder William Barton Rogers possessed enslaved persons before coming to MIT; research, community dialogue to ensue.
Search will start soon for new live-in faculty to help lead undergraduate community.
MIT historian Malick Ghachem gets readers and students to look anew at the Atlantic world.
The MIT chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society inducts 74 distinguished graduates of the Class of 2017.
MIT historian John Dower’s latest book decries the militarism of the postwar years.
In a history seminar, engineering students explore shifting ideas about animal intelligence and human uses of animals throughout the ages.