Todne Thomas specializes in what she calls the “slow pressure-cooker research method.” An anthropologist, she believes that one of the most effective ways to learn about people and communities is through long-term, intensive, in-person research —...
By the time he was entering his senior year of high school in New Haven, in 2017, Henry Seyue already knew that he wanted to study law, preferably constitutional law. One of his teachers, recognizing his academic seriousness, recommended that he attend...
In 1925, Sigmund Freud wrote what is now a fairly well-known essay, “A Note on the ‘Mystic Writing-Pad.’” The Mystic Writing-Pad was a relatively simple device that enabled the instant erasure of any markings on its surface. The pad’s foundation layer was...
Shortly after Pericles Lewis became a full professor in Yale’s Departments of English and Comparative Literature, in 2007, he was recruited by Martin Puchner, a Harvard professor and author, to help edit the third edition of the Norton Anthology of World...
In late October 1994, Susan Smith rolled her car into a lake in Union County, South Carolina, with her two sons, a toddler and a baby, strapped in the backseat, drowning both children. Smith, a white woman, told police that a Black man had carjacked her...