Yale historian David Blight visited Richmond, Virginia, often in the late 1990s while researching the Civil War’s effect on American memory. When not sifting through archives, he’d jog along the city’s famed Monument Avenue, named for the five grandiose...
Yale Law School faculty member Reginald Dwayne Betts ’16 J.D., a poet and lawyer whose own imprisonment as a teenager led him to become an advocate for incarcerated people, is one of three Yale affiliates to be awarded a 2021 MacArthur Fellowship,...