“A Raisin in the Sun,” the celebrated play by Lorraine Hansberry, was in tryouts at New Haven’s Shubert Theatre on Jan. 11, 1959, when the 29-year-old playwright shared her thoughts with the producing team about the previous night’s performance. In a two-...
Alison Gilchrest, who for over a decade has led national and international initiatives to promote collaboration in the field of cultural heritage conservation, has been appointed as the new director of Yale’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural...
Deborah Berke, dean of the Yale School of Architecture, and composer Christopher Theofanidis ’94 M.M.A. ’97 D.M.A., professor of composition and practice at the Yale School of Music, have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, one of...
The January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol was a hodgepodge of conflicting symbols.
The protestors erected a large wooden cross and gallows. Some waved Rebel battle flags; others the Stars and Stripes. Some carried signs declaring that “Jesus Saves”...
Yale University announced on March 29 the eight recipients of the 2022 Windham-Campbell Prizes, marking the 10th anniversary of one of the world’s most significant international literary awards. The writers, whose works explore the personal as well as...
Ellen Cohn watched the April 4 premiere of “Benjamin Franklin,” a new documentary by filmmaker Ken Burns on the consequential life of the 18th-century American polymath, with her family and a bowl of popcorn.
But her involvement with the project goes back...
Early in the pandemic, when much of Yale’s campus was shut down, Meredith Miller ’03 M.F.A. found inspiration in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library’s digital collections.
Miller, a senior photographer at the Beinecke, turned to her artistic...
As Laguna Pueblo writer Leslie Marmon Silko prepared her papers for transfer to Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, she wrote a brief narrative on a cardboard manuscript box that had contained an editor’s copy of “Ceremony,” her breakthrough...
In the mid-1960s, James M. Gustafson, a professor of Christian ethics at Yale Divinity School, mentored a cohort of remarkably talented students. Many of those young scholars, united by their admiration for Gustafson, would help found the field of...
On May 5, 1943, three wolf packs of German U-boats attacked ONS-5, an Allied merchant convoy sailing from British ports to New York City to retrieve stocks of oil, ores, sheet steel, and other vital war supplies.
Since the beginning of World War II, the...