Davis Tutt shouldn’t have taken Wild Bill’s watch.Postcard of James Butler (Wild Bill) Hickok, by the Arthur Jaff Heliochrome Co. in New York; published by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book...
David R. Mayhew, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Yale University, who is widely considered one of the leading scholars on the American Congress, will give a series of three lectures in September on “The Imprint of Congress” for the...
Once a champion debater in high school, Yale senior Joshua Feinzig is well acquainted with the traditional rules and procedures in debate competitions.In a history seminar last year on “Politics and Culture of the U.S. Color Line,” however, Feinzig began...
In her just-released book, “The Importance of Being Little: What Preschoolers Really Need from Grownups” (Viking), noted early childhood educator and Silliman College associate master Erika Christakis argues that most of today’s youngest schoolchildren...
The story of American abolitionism is often told in a way that discounts the significance of slave resistance in the antislavery movement and is unnecessarily divided along racial lines, historian Manisha Sinha said in a Feb. 18 panel discussion on campus...
One of the most moving experiences journalist April Ryan has had during her 28 years of covering the White House happened while attending an art exhibition with former First Lady Laura Bush.Bush had invited Ryan to walk from the White House across the...
The preservation of cultural heritage will be the focus of the eighth Global Colloquium of University Presidents (UNGC) being hosted by Yale on April 12-13, along with a series of related public events from April 6–15. Information about the colloquium and...