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Creative cultural connections: ‘A Conjoining of Ancient Song’ documentary now online

December 23, 2013

A special Yale documentary retraces the trajectory of a rapidly eroding form of congregational singing from Scotland into African-American, Native-American,...

10 research stories from 2013

December 19, 2013

The list of breakthroughs made by Yale researchers in 2013 is long and varied. Here are 10 of these discoveries.

23 campus stories from 2013

December 19, 2013

There were many major events at Yale in 2013, including the inauguration of the university’s 23rd president. In honor of that milestone, here is a look back...

Happenings at Yale’s museums and galleries during the winter break

December 19, 2013

Winter break is a good time to explore the many artistic and cultural treasures at Yale’s museums.

Yale anthropologist’s research inspires modern art

December 18, 2013

The transformation of the Thu Thiem New Urban Area is the focus of a new exhibition in Vietnam by renowned artist Tiffany Chung that is based on research...

Beinecke Library acquires trove of letters by author James Baldwin

December 16, 2013

The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library has acquired an archive of approximately 100 letters by renowned writer James Baldwin, and a typescript draft...

Famed environmentalist to students: To learn requires accepting our own ignorance

December 16, 2013

Noted activist and author Wendell Berry recently traveled from his farm in Kentucky to New Haven, where he visited the campus as a guest of the Chubb...

Creative classroom: In ‘books of secrets,’ historian’s students find an unexpected past

December 12, 2013

One afternoon Nell Meosky ’14 was sitting at a table in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library with her classmates in the undergraduate seminar “Spies...

First-known prison narrative by an African-American discovered at Beinecke

December 12, 2013

Scholarly work has revealed that an 1858 manuscript, housed at Yale’s Beinecke Library, is the earliest-known prison memoir written by an African American.